Australian Diatom Publications
This reference list includes both scientific publications, conference proceedings and technical reports that have involved diatom studies within Australia. It is a working document, so if there are any publications that are not listed, please feel free to send on the details.
Scientific Journals
Cheng, D.M.H. & Tyler, P.A. (1973) The effect of diatom populations on silica concetrations of Lakes Sorell and Crescent, Tasmania, and the utilisation of tripton as a source of silica. British Phycological Journal 8: 249-256.
Chessman, B.C. (1985) Artificial-substratum periphyton and water quality in the lower La Trobe River, Victoria. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 36: 855-871.
Chessman, B.C. (1986) Diatom flora of an Australian river system: spatial patterns and environmental relationships. Freshwater Biology16: 805-819.
Chessman, B.C., Hutton, P.E. & Burch J.M. (1992) Limiting nutrients for periphyton growth in sub-alpine, forest, agricultural and urban streams. Freshwater Biology 28: 349-361.
Gell, P.A. (1993) Using salt lake diatoms for paleosalinity reconstructions - Australia's contribution to the CASPIA project. Quaternary Australasia 11(1): 33-34.
Gell, P.A. (1997) The development of a diatom data base for inferring lake salinity: towards a quantitative approach for reconstructing past climates. Australian Journal of Botany 45(3): 389-423.
Gell, P.A. (1998) Quantitative reconstructions of the Holocene palaeosalinity of paired crater lakes based on a diatom transfer function.Palaeoclimates 3: 83-96.
Gell, P.A. && Gasse, F. (1994) Relationships between salinity and diatom flora from some Australian saline lakes. Memoirs of the California Academy of Science 17: 631-647.
Haworth, E.Y. & Tyler, P.A. (1993) Morphology and taxonomy of Cyclotella tasmanica spec. nov., a newly described diatom from Tasmanian Lakes. Hydrobiologia 269/270: 49-56.
Hodgson, D.A., Tyler, P.A. & Vyverman, W. (1996) The palaeolimnology of Lake Fidler, a meromictic lake in south west Tasmania and the significance of recent human impact. Journal of Paleolimnology 18: 313-333.
John, J. (1993) The use of diatoms in monitoring the development of created wetlands at a sandmining site in Western Australia.Hydrobiologia 269/270: 427-436.
Reid, M.A., Tibby, J., Penny, D. &and Gell, P.A. (1995) The use of diatoms to assess past and present wate quality. Australian Journal of Ecology. 20: 57-64.
Tudor, E.R., Blinn, D.W. & Churchill, D.M. (1991) Distribution of diatoms in the northern Kimberley region, Western Australia in relation to water chemistry. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia73: 93-99.
Walsh, R.G.B., Vyverman, W.G. & Tyler, P.A. (1995) Reconnaisance limnology of Tasmania III. Coastal lagoons of Bruny Island. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 136: 247-260.
Vyverman, W. Sabbe, K., Mann, D., Kilroy, C., Vyverman, R., Vanhoutte, K. & Hodgson, D.H. (1998) Eunophora gen. nov.(Bacillariophyta) from Tasmania and New Zealand: description and comparison with Eunotia and amphorid diatoms. European Journal of Phycology33: 95-111.
Vyverman, W., Sabbe, K. & Vyverman, R. (1997) Five new freshwater species of Biremis (Bacillariophyta) from Tasmania.Phycologia 36: 91-102.
Vyverman, W., Vyverman, R., Rajendram, V.S. & Tyler, P.A. (1996) The distribution of benthic diatom assemblages in Tasmanian highland lakes and their possible use as indicators of climater-related environmental changes.Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 53: 493-508.
Books
Day, S., Wickham, R., Entwisle, T. & Tyler, P. (1995) Bibliographic checklist of non-marine Australian algae. Flora of Australia, Supplementary Series No. 4.
Foged, N. (1978) Diatoms in Eastern Australia. Bibliotheca Phycologia, Band 41: pp. 1-243.
Gell, P.A., Sonneman, J.A., Reid, M.A., Illman, M.A. & Sincock, A.J. (1999) An illustrated key to common diatom genera from southern Australia. Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology Identification Guide No. 26, 63pp.
Hodgson, D.A., Vyverman, W. & Tyler, P.A. (1996) Diatoms of meromictic lakes adjacent to the Gordon River, and of the Gordon River estuary in south-west Tasmania. Bibliotheca Diatomologica, Band 35: pp. 1-174, 20pl., 230 figs.
John, J. (1983) The diatom flora of the Swan River estuary Western Australia. Bibliotheca Phycologica, Band 64: pp. 1-359.
Vyverman, W., Vyverman, R., Hodgson, D. and Tyler, P.A. (1995) Diatoms from Tasmania mountain lakes: a reference data set (TASDIAT) for environmental reconstruction and a systematic and autecological study. Bibliotheca Diatomologica, Band 33: pp. 1-193, 42pl., 638 figs.
Conference Proceedings
Technical Reports
Coleman, R. (1998) Diatoms & macroalgae assessment in the Mornington Peninsula: Western Port streams. Melbourne Water Corporation Research & Investigation, 26pp.
Coleman, R. & Pettigrove, V. (1998) Waterway assessments in the Yarra catchment: the health of the Watts River. Waterways & Drainage, Melbourne Water Corporation, 100pp.
John, J. & Gayton, C. (1994) A comparative study of epiphytic diatom communities on aquatic macrophytes in two artificial wetlands. Curtin University of Technology, Technical Report No. 23, 26pp.
John, J. (1998) Diatoms: tools for bioassessment of river health. A model for south-western Australia. Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation project UCW3, 388pp.
Pettigrove, V. & Coleman, R. (1998) Waterway assessment in the Yarra catchment: the health of Andersons and Jumping Creeks. Waterways & Drainage, Melbourne Water Corporation, 103pp.
Reed, J. & Newall, P. (1990) An environmental study of the Plenty River. Environment Protection Agency Report number 88/015, Ministry for Planning and Environment, 77pp.
Reid, M. (1995) Darebin Creek diatom study. Report 17/95, Water Ecoscience Environmental Assessment Division, Mt Waverley.
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