Dr Andy Nunn

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Hull International Fisheries Institute

Department of Biological Sciences

The University of Hull
HU6 7RX UK
Tel: +44 (0)1482 466429

Fax: +44 (0)1482 465458

Email: a.d.nunn@hull.ac.uk

Key projects

• Colonisation of a managed realignment site by fishes: habitat compensation in the Thames Estuary. Dubai Ports World and Environment Agency 
• Environmental impacts of alien species in aquaculture (IMPASSE). European Commission
• The role of food availability during critical life stages in the determination of the survival and growth of freshwater fishes. Environment Agency
• Quantification of lamprey ammocoete habitat use and burrow structure by the novel application of micro computer tomography. Fisheries Society of the British Isles and Hull Environment Research Institute
• Defining environmental risk assessment criteria for genetically-modified fishes to be placed on the EU market. European Food Safety Authority
• Facilitating the application of output from research and case studies on ecological responses to hydro-morphological degradation and rehabilitation (FORECASTER). EU IWRM-net

Research interests

My interests include the ecology of larval and juvenile fishes, the ecology and rehabilitation of floodplain ecosystems, the migration ecology of aquatic organisms, the impacts of alien species in freshwater ecosystems, factors affecting the population success of fishes, and the conservation and management of designated fish and lamprey species.

Brief CV

• Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Hull, 2005-
• PhD, University of Hull, 2000-2005
• Research Assistant, University of Hull, 1999-2000
• MSc Fisheries Science, University of Hull, 1998-1999
• BSc (Hons) Freshwater Biology, University of Liverpool, 1995-1998

Member of the British Ecological Society (BES),the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA), the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI) and the Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM).

Selected publications

Nunn, A. D. & Cowx, I. G. (2012). Restoring river connectivity: prioritising passage improvements for diadromous fishes and lampreys. Ambio in press.

Nunn, A. D., Tewson, L. H. & Cowx, I. G. (2012). The foraging ecology of larval and juvenile fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries in press.

Nunn, A. D., Copp, G. H., Vilizzi, L. & Carter, M. G. (2010). Seasonal and diel patterns in the migrations of fishes between a river and a floodplain tributary. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 19, 153-162.

Nunn, A. D., Frear, P. A., Lee, M. & Cowx, I. G. (2010). Is there evidence for a shift in fish growth and recruitment success linked to climate change? Journal of Fish Biology 77, 1780-1792.

Nunn, A. D., Harvey, J. P., Britton, J. R., Frear, P. A. & Cowx, I. G. (2007). Fish, climate and the Gulf Stream: the influence of abiotic factors on the recruitment success of cyprinid fishes in lowland rivers. Freshwater Biology 52, 1576-1586.

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