Dr Andrew Munro

Research Interests

My research interests include the use of chemical and growth patterns in the calcified structures of fish (otoliths, scales, spines, fin rays) to answer questions relating to the ecology, conservation, and management of fish. Otoliths in particular contain vast amounts of information about the age and growth of individual fish as well as the physical and chemical properties of the environments the fish inhabited throughout its life. Currently I am working on a CSIRO funded Water for a Healthy Country Flagship project studying the distribution and movement of key fish species within The Coorong (estuary to the Murray-Darling Basin). This is part of a multi-institutional collaborative research cluster aimed at understanding the whole ecology of the system and predicting its response to different management strategies. I am also working on projects studying the impacts of stocking on native fish populations in the Murray-Darling Basin and developing new marking protocols for hatchery and wild fish.

Current Projects

• Key species responses to water management: CLLAMMecology Research Cluster
• Methods for discriminating hatchery fish and outcomes of stocking the Murray-Darling Basin. 
• Native fish stocking of rivers: discriminating between hatchery-reared and wild fish

Recent Projects

• Improved methodology for discrimination of stocked and wild fish (Murray-Darling Basin Commission)
• Impacts of native fish stocking on fish within the Murray-Darling Basin: a review (Murray-Darling Basin Commission)
• Interaction of life history, fish size, and infection risk on population-level effects of whirling disease on Missouri River rainbow trout (National Partnership on the Management of Wild and Native Cold Water Fisheries).
• Identification of the source population of lake trout in Yellowstone Lake using otolith microchemistry (National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park).
• Microchemical analysis of otoliths to determine life-history patterns in interior salmonids (United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station).

Publications:

• Munro, A.R., B.M. Gillanders, T.S. Elsdon, D.A. Crook and A.C. Sanger. 2008. Enriched stable isotope marking of juvenile golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) otoliths. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:276-285.
• Crook, D.A., D. O'Mahony, B.M. Gillanders, A.R. Munro, and A.C. Sanger. 2007. Production of external fluorescent marks on golden perch fingerlings through osmotic induction marking with alizarin red s. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 27:670-675.
• Munro, A.R., T.E. McMahon, and J.R. Ruzycki. 2006. Where did they come from? Natural chemical markers identify source and date of lake trout introduction in Yellowstone Lake. Yellowstone Science 14(2):4-12. (reprint of Munro et al. 2005).
• Munro, A.R., T.E. McMahon, and J.R. Ruzycki. 2005. Natural chemical markers identify source and date of introduction of an exotic species: lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in Yellowstone Lake. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:79-87.
• Munro, A.R., T.E. McMahon, S.A. Leathe, and G. Liknes. 2003. Evaluation of batch marking small rainbow trout with coded wire tags. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:600-604.
• Munro, A.R., T.L. Baker, W.L. McKibbin, T. Strakosh, and C. Robinson. 2000. Safety in fisheries work: can we afford not to be prepared? Fisheries 25(8):36-37.

Contact Details

Email: andrew.munro@adelaide.edu.au

Postal Address:
Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
DX 650 418
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, South Australia 5005
Australia

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