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Dr Dale McNeil

Reports

McNeil, D.G., Schmarr, D.W., Wilson, P.J. and Reid D. J (2011). Fish Community and Flow Ecology in the Western Mount Lofty Ranges Environmental Water Provisions Trial Reaches. Final Report to the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board and the SA Department for Water (PDF 8.3 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Research Report Series No. 581. 238pp.

McNeil, D.G, Schmarr, D.W and Mathwin, R (2011). Condition of Freshwater Fish Communities in the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Management Region. Report to the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board (PDF 2.4 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2011/000502-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 590. 65pp.

McNeil, D. G, White, M. and Schmarr, D. W. (2011) Assessment of endemic fish (Mogurnda clivicola) and native vegetation at springs in the northern Flinders Ranges. Report to the South Australian Arid Lands Natural Resources Management Board, Port Augusta (PDF 7.4 MB).  South Australian Research and Development Institute and South Australian Department for Water. SARDI Research Report Series No. 518. 92pp.

Schmarr, D.W., Mathwin, R. and McNeil, D.G (2011). Mapping threats to aquatic biota movement and recovery with the provision of environmental water in selected reaches of the South Para, Torrens and Onkaparinga Rivers - RESTRICTED. South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2011/000418-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 570. 8pp.

McNeil, D.G., Hartwell, D., Conallin, A. J. and Stuart, I.G (2011). Baseline trials of carp control technologies in wetlands of the lower Lachlan River.  A Report to the Lachlan Catchment Management Authority and the Invasive Animals Co-operative Research Centre (PDF 2.6 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2010/000615-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 516. 54pp.

McNeil, D. G. and Fredberg, J (2011). Environmental Water Requirements of native fishes in the Middle River catchment, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. A Report to the SA Department for Water (PDF 1.4 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2011/000060-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 528. 50pp.

Fredberg, J. and McNeil, D.G (2010). Review of non-native ornamental fish species grey listed in Australia.  Report to the Ornamental Fish Management Implementation Group (OFMIG). (PDF 1.3 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2010/000631-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 492. 44pp.

Macdonald, J., Crook, D. and McNeil, D.G. (2010) Identification of carp recruitment hotspots in the Lachlan River using otolith chemistry (PDF 2.1 MB). Report to the Invasive Animals CRC and Lachlan CMA, prepared by SARDI Aquatic Sciences. Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra. SARDI Publication No. F2009/000682-1. SARDI Reseach Report Series No. 434. 27 pp.

Marsland, K.B., Nicol, J.M. and McNeil, D.M. (2010). Fish habitat in the Lower River Murray: an analysis of the nature, extent and the associated fish assemblages. Final report. (PDF 3.2 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide, 47pp. SARDI Publication No. F2007/000973-2. SARDI Research Report Series No. 418.

McNeil, D.G., Westergaard, S. and Hartwell, D (2010). Preliminary investigations into the control of speckled livebearers (Phalloceros caudimaculatus). (PDF 601.8 KB). Report to Primary Industries and Resources South Australia - Biosecurity. South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2010/000306-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 452. 29p.

McNeil, DG, Wilson, PJ, Fredberg, JF & Westergaard, S. (2010) Fish Passage at the Breakout Creek Fishway, River Torrens, South Australia (PDF 674.9 KB). Report to the Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board, South Australian Research Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences) Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2009/000409-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 440.

Schmarr, D.W. and McNeil, D.G (2010). Ecological Responses to Environmental Water Provisions in the Onkaparinga River. (PDF 4.2 MB). Report to the SA Department for Water, the Adelaide & Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Board and e-water Cooperative Research Centre. South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2010/000637-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 502. 43pp.

Ye, Q., Cheshire, K. J. and McNeil, D. G (Eds) (2010). Influences of salinity, water quality and hydrology on early life stages of fishes in the Lower River Murray, South Australia. (PDF 6.5 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2009/000470-1-6. SARDI Research Report Series No. 446. 179 p.

McNeil, D.G., Fredberg, J. and Wilson, P.J. (2009). Coastal Fishes and Flows in the Onkaparinga and Myponga Rivers.  Report to the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board. (PDF 3.2 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute, Aquatic Sciences.  SARDI Publication No. F2009/000410-1. 76pp. SARDI Research Report Series No. 400.

McNeil, D.G and Schmarr, D.W. (2009) Recovery of Lake Eyre Basin Fishes Following Drought: 2008/09 Fish Survey Report. (PDF 1.6 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide, 61pp. SARDI Publication No. F2009/000407-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 411.

McNeil, D.G., Schmarr, D., and Hartwell, D. (2009) Common Native Fish Of The Lake Eyre Basin Rivers. (PDF 661.4 KB).  Brochure: South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences) and South Australian Arid Lands Natural Resources Management Board. SARDI Aquatic Sciences Publication No F2009/000703.

Mackay, S., Pikusa, E., Arene, S.,  Edwards, C., Fee, B., Gabas, I., McEvoy, P., McNeil, D., Metzeling, L., Marsh, N., Rooney, G. and Williams, T. (2008). Application of the Ecological Modeller Software Tool to the Werribee River (Victoria) and Onkaparinga River (South Australia). (PDF 1.4 MB) Final Application Project Report. eWater CRC. Canberra. Pp95.

McNeil, D.G., Reid, D.J., Schmarr, D.W. and Westergaard, S. (2008) Preliminary Fish Surveys for the Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment: Testing the Fish Trajectory Model in South Australia. (PDF 1.9 MB).   South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide, 89pp. SARDI Report Series No. 351.
 
McNeil D.G., Wilson P.J. (2008). The speckled livebearer (Phalloceros caudimaculatus): A new alien fish for South Australia. (PDF 977.5 KB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. pp. 29 Publication number: F2008/000939-1. SARDI Research Report Series No. 316. 
 
McNeil, D, Wilson, P, Hartwell, D & Pellizzari, M (2008).  Olive Perchlet ( Ambassis agassizii) in the Lachlan River: Population status and sustainability in the Lake Brewster region. A Report submitted to the Lachlan Catchment Management Authority. (PDF 489.2 KB). SARDI Aquatic Sciences Publication No F2008/000846-1. SARDI Research Report Series No 309. 
 
Wilson, P, McNeil, D & Gillanders, B (2008).  Impacts of introduced redfin perch on native flathead gudgeons in the South Para River. A Report to the SA Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation. (PDF 612.4 KB). SARDI Aquatic Sciences Publication No F2007/000882-1. SARDI Research Report Series No 267.
 

McNeil, D. & Hammer, M. (2007) Biological Review of the Freshwater Fishes of the Mount Lofty Ranges (PDF 14.9 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. Publication number: F2006/000335. 104p. SARDI Research Report Series No: 188

 

Ye, Q., McNeil, D.G., & Higham, J. (2006). Fish community assessment prior to resnagging in the lower Murray River, South Australia.  (PDF 348.9 KB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. 20 pp. SARDI Aquatic Sciences Publication No. RD06/0007-1.

 

Chapters

 

McNeil D.G., Westergaard S. & Ye Q. (2010) Chapter 2. Juvenile salinity tolerance of eight native fish species from the Lower River Murray, South Australia. Influences of salinity, water quality and hydrology on early life stages of fishes in the Lower River Murray, South Australia.  (Eds Q. Ye, K.J. Cheshire and D.G. McNeil) pp. 48-72. (PDF 6.5 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2009/000470-2. SARDI Research Report Series No. 446.

 

McNeil D.G., Alton L.A., Westergaard S. & Ye Q. (2010) Chapter 3. Larval salinity tolerance of nine native fish species from the Lower River Murray, South Australia. In Influences of salinity, water quality and hydrology on early life stages of fishes in the Lower River Murray, South Australia. (Eds Q. Ye, K.J. Cheshire and D.G. McNeil) pp. 73-102. (PDF 6.5 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2009/000470-3. SARDI Research Report Series No. 446.

 

McNeil D.G., Westergaard S. & Ye Q. (2010) Chapter 4. The impact of salinity on egg development of four species of  native fish from the Lower River Murray, South Australia. In Influences of salinity, water quality and hydrology on early life stages of fishes in the Lower River Murray, South Australia. (Eds Q. Ye, K.J. Cheshire and D.G. McNeil) pp. 103-127. (PDF 6.5 MB). South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. SARDI Publication No. F2009/000470-4. SARDI Research Report Series No. 446.

Journal Articles

Morrongiello, J.R., Beatty, S.J., Bennett, J.C., Crook, D.A., Ikedife, D.N.E.N., Kennard, M.J., Kerezsy, A., Lintermans, M., McNeil, D.G., Pusey, B.J. and Rayner, T (2011). Climate change and its implications for Australia's freshwater fish (PDF 564.6 KB). Marine and Freshwater Research, 2011, 62, 1082 - 1098. 10.1071/MF10308. 1323 - 1650/11/091082.

McNeil, D.G. and Closs, G.P. (2007). Behavioural responses of a south-east Australian floodplain fish community to gradual hypoxia. (PDF 505.0 KB). Freshwater Biology 52 (3): 412–420.

Conference Papers

McNeil, D.G. Understanding Ecosystem Resilience to Drought Disturbance and Protecting and Managing Drought Refugia in the Murray-Darling Basin. Pg 60. Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) Native Fish Forum in September 2009.

Closs, G.P., Balcombe, S.R., Driver, P., McNeil, D.G. and Shirley, M.J.  (2005). The importance of floodplain wetlands to Murray-Darling fish: What’s there? What do we know? What do we need to know? (PDF 298.2 KB). Native Fish And Wetlands In The Murray-Darling Basin – Canberra Workshop, 7–8 June 2005

Presentations

2011 - Fish and Critical Refugia in Australia’s Outback. Abstract (PDF ) Amanda Rosenberger, Dale McNeil and David Schmarr.

Invited Departmental Seminar, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Invited Seminar, Katchemak Bay Research Reserve, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Homer, Alaska.

Other

'No fishy business but names called at Willunga Creek' Primetime, September 2011
There was a lot of joyous name calling at Willunga Creek recently, as local primary school students briefly owned 100 previously ‘at risk’ native fish and gave each a name before releasing them to their native homes....(PDF 130.8 KB)

McNeil, D.G (2011). Information for distinguishing species of eel tailed catfish in inland South Australia (PDF 488.6 KB). SARDI Publication No. F2011/000469-1.

McNeil, D.G. Southern Fisheries article (PDF 216.1 KB)

McNeil, D.G. Spotty and vulnerable – a fishy mystery (PDF ).  The SA Arid Lands NRM Board is working to protect a vulnerable fish species after evidence that individuals in remaining populations may be suffering from a disease.  Across the Outback October 2010. No. 51 p6.

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