Adam’s most recent work has been in the Lachlan catchment in NSW and the Paroo in Queensland. From 2009 – 2015 he was involved with efforts to conserve the critically-endangered red-finned blue-eye at Edgbaston Reserve in western Queensland.

For further information on fish, springs and rivers in inland Australia, the following published material may be helpful. For specific queries please use the contact page.

 

The distribution and abundance of fish in the Lake Cargellgo system, NSW (Honours thesis) download pdf

The distribution, recruitment and movement of fish in far western Queensland (PhD thesis) download pdf

Continuous recruitment underpins fish persistence in the arid rivers of far western Queensland, Australia. (2011, Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 1178 – 1190)

Four desert waters: Setting arid zone wetland conservation priorities through understanding patterns of endemism. (2011, Biological Conservation 144, 2459 – 2467)

Climate change and its implications for Australia’s freshwater fish. (2011, Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 1082 – 1098)

Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis Red-finned Blue-eye, in Baillie, E. M. and Butcher, E. R. (2012) Priceless or Worthless? The world’s most threatened species. Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom

Response to Tim Flannery’s Quarterly Essay entitled: After the Future: Australia’s New Extinction Crisis. Quarterly Essay 49, 91 – 94 (2012).

Conservation of the endangered red-finned blue-eye, Scaturiginichthys  vermeilipinnis,  and control of alien eastern gambusia, Gambusia holbrooki, in a spring wetland  complex. (2013, Marine and Freshwater Research 64, 851 – 863)

Fish movement strategies in an ephemeral river in the Simpson Desert, Australia. (2013, Austral Ecology, DOI:10.1111/aec.12075)

Fish distribution in far western Queensland, Australia: the importance of habitat, connectivity and natural flows. (2014, Diversity 6, 380 – 395)

Red-finned blue-eye: the story so far.  (2014, Fishes of Sahul, 28: 806 – 812.)

An Australian science communication case study based on the recovery of the endangered fish red-finned blue-eye, Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis. (2014, Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 97: 279 – 286).

Quantifying the impact of Gambusia holbrooki on the extinction risk of the critically endangered red-finned blue-eye. (2015, Ecosphere 6 (3): http://doi.org/10.1890/E514-00412.1)

Development of a technique for quarantining Great Artesian Basin springs from colonisation by the invasive fish Eastern Gambusia (Gambusia holbrooki). 2015, Ecological Management and Restoration 16 (3), 229 – 232.

Ebner, B.C., Morgan, D.L., Kerezsy, A., Hardie, S., Beatty, S.J., Seymour, J.E., Donaldson, J.A., Linke, S., Peverell, S., Roberts, D., Espinoza, T., Marshall, N., Kroon, F.J., Burrows, D.W. and McAllister, R.R. (2016). Enhancing conservation of Australian freshwater ecosystems: identification of freshwater flagship species and relevant target audiences. Fish Fish 17 (4), 1134 – 1151.

 

Faulks, L.F., Kerezsy, A., Unmack, P.J., Johnson, J.B. and Hughes, J.M. (2017). Going, going, gone? Loss of genetic diversity in two critically endangered Australian freshwater fishes, Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis and Chlamydogobius squamigenus, from Great Artesian Basin springs at Edgbaston, Queensland, Australia. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 27, 39 – 50.

 

Davis, J.A., Kerezsy, A. and Nicol, S. (2017). Springs: Conserving perennial water is critical in arid landscapes. Biological Conservation 211 Part B, 30 – 35.

 

Nicol, S., Rossini, R. and Kerezsy, A. (2017). Springing to Life. Wildlife Australia 52 (2), 4 – 7.

 

Kerezsy, A. (2017). The quick march of sleepy cod through the Cooper Creek catchment in central Australia. Fishes of Sahul 31 (1), 1067 – 1072.

 

Kerezsy, A., Gido, K., Magalhaes, M. and Skelton, P. (2017). Chapter 4.5. The biota of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams: Fishes, 273 – 298, in Datry, T., Bonada, N. and Boulton, A. (Eds.) Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams: Ecology and Management, Academic Press/Elsevier, UK and USA, 624 p.

 

Kerezsy, A. (2017). Fish distribution, status and threats in the rivers and springs of the Queensland Lake Eyre Basin, 31 – 42 in Kingsford, R. (Ed) Lake Eyre Basin Rivers: Environmental, Social and Economic Importance, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 252 p.

 

Radford, J., Wager, R. and Kerezsy, A. (2018). Recovery of the red-finned blue-eye: informing action in the absence of controls and replication, in Legge, S., Lindenmayer, D., Robinson, N., Scheele, B., Southwell, D. and Wintle, B. (Eds.) Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities, CSIRO, Melbourne.

 

Garcia-Diaz, P., Kerezsy, A., Unmack, P.J., Lintermans, M., Beatty, S.J., Butler, G.L., Freeman, R., Hammer, M.P., Hardie, S., Kennard, M.J., Morgan, D.L., Pusey, P.J., Raadik, T.A., Thiem, J.D., Whiterod, N.S., Cassey, P. and Duncan, R.P. (2018). Transport Pathways shape the biogeography of alien freshwater fishes in Australia. Diversity and Distributions. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12777

 

Ebner, B., Brooks, S., Kerezsy, A. & Butler, G. 2019. Amniataba percoides . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T123358775A123382836.

 

Kerezsy, A., Kern, P. & Wager, R. 2019. Chlamydogobius squamigenus . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T4699A129047583.

 

Kerezsy, A., Kern, P. & Wager, R. 2019. Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T19951A123379010.

 

Kerezsy, A. & Brooks, S. 2019. Scortum barcoo . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T122906630A123382331.

 

Kerezsy, A. & Brooks, S. 2019. Porochilus argenteus . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T122901716A123382056.

 

Kerezsy, A. & Brooks, S. 2019. Bidyanus welchi . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T122906333A123382296.

 

Brooks, S. & Kerezsy, A. 2019. Oxyeleotris selheimi . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T122913966A123382401.

 

Lintermans, M. & Kerezsy, A. 2019. Macquaria ambigua . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T123358536A123382796.

 

Unmack, P. & Kerezsy, A. 2019. Chlamydogobius eremius . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T122914012A123382411.

 

Unmack, P., Hammer, M. & Kerezsy, A. 2019. Craterocephalus eyresii . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T122905727A123382221.

 

Ebner, B., Kerezsy, A. & Brooks, S. 2019. Oxyeleotris lineolata . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T68001545A68001776.

 

Kerezsy, A., Brooks, S. & Kennard, M. 2019. Ambassis agrammus . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T122906114A123382271.

 

Kerezsy, A., Unmack, P. & Wager, R. 2019. Chlamydogobius micropterus . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T4698A129047546.

 

Kennard, M., Brooks, S., Kerezsy, A. & Ebner, B. 2019. Leiopotherapon unicolor . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T122906520A123382321.

 

Furlan, E., Gruber, B., Attard, C., Wager, R., Kerezsy, A., Faulks, L., Beheregaray, L. and Unmack, P. 2020. Assessing the benefits and risks of translocations in depauperate species: A theoretical framework with an empirical validation. Journal of Applied Ecology 2020-00-1-11.

 

Kerezsy, A. (2020a).  The distribution of the endangered fish Edgbaston goby, Chlamydogobius squamigenus, and recommendations for management. Journal of the Royal Society of Queensland (Special Issue: Springs of the Great Artesian Basin: Eds Arthington, A, Rossini, R. Flook, S, Jackson, S., Tomlinson, M. and Walton, C.) Vol. 126, pp: 129 – 141.

 

Kerezsy, A. (2020b). Fishes of Australia’s Great Artesian Basin springs – an overview. Journal of the Royal Society of Queensland (Special Issue: Springs of the Great Artesian Basin: Eds Arthington, A, Rossini, R. Flook, S, Jackson, S., Tomlinson, M. and Walton, C.) Vol. 126, pp: 117-127.

 

Other relevant stories and talks about fish in Queensland’s Lake Eyre Basin and red-finned blue-eye at Edgbaston:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4W8hq7fwus (interview with Desert Channels Queensland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgkE5lxkDW4&list=PLrlXhHkpDzd2UDZ5vCPoNr99g0Yu2Mgom (talk given at ‘Spotlight on the Lake Eyre Basin’ conference, Longreach, 2013).

http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/lunchbox-soapbox-adam-kerezsy-desert-fishing-lessons-saving-species-from-extinction/ (talk given at the Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, in 2012).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-21/private-conservation-group-funds-work-on/3594736 (ABC 7.30 program profile on Edgbaston 2012)

http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2010/s3346069.htm (ABC Landline program profile on Edgbaston)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-27/the-battle-to-save-an-outback-fish-from-extinction/5556530 (second ABC 7.30 program on red-finned blue-eye 2014)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAnTfpUbb4M (flooding in the Mulligan River and Simpson Desert).