BIOL209
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science (University of Canterbury)
Master of Science (University of Canterbury)
Doctor of Philosophy (University of Canterbury)
Research Interests
My primary research interest is the early life history of fish.
- Fish biology
- Early life history of fishes
- Dispersal mechanisms
- Aquatic ecology
- Icthyoplankton
- Whitebait
Recent Publications
- Crichton BRJ., Hickford MJH., McIntosh AR. and Schiel DR. (2023) Predicting biomass of resident kōkopu (Galaxias) populations using local habitat characteristics. PLoS ONE 18(3 March) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261993.
- Jellyman PG., Quilty CM., Thomas CR., Green CB. and Hickford MJH. (2023) Laboratory-based comparison of screening materials for excluding juvenile freshwater fishes from New Zealand water intakes. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2023.2173256.
- Watson AS., Hickford MJH. and Schiel DR. (2023) Closing the life-history loop: Density effects on fecundity and egg size of an exploited, amphidromous fish (Galaxias maculatus) in freshwater protected areas. Freshwater Biology 68(7): 1136-1147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fwb.14091.
- Armstrong BA., Moltchanova E., Hickford MJH. and Schiel DR. (2022) Comparing the performance of supervised classification methods on a multispecies fishery of post-larval galaxiids. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 56(2): 272-283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2021.1934488.
- Watson AS., Hickford MJH. and Schiel DR. (2022) Interacting effects of density and temperature on fish growth rates in freshwater protected populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 289(1967) http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1982.
