Qualifications
Bachelor of Science (سԹ)
Master of Science (سԹ)
Doctor of Philosophy (سԹ)
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).
- 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 سԹwater intakes.New سԹJournal of Marine and Freshwater Research.
- 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..
- 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 سԹJournal of Marine and Freshwater Research 56(2): 272-283..
- 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).