Dr Debashish Mazumder
Staff Profile
Role at ANSTO
Debashish is a Research Scientist in the Institute for Environmental Research. He is responsible for conducting research on energy pathways and food web structures in freshwater ecosystems applying isotopic techniques to better understand the impacts of water management, land use and climate variability on the structure and function of wetland and river ecosystems.
Expertise
Aquatic ecology, Stable isotope ecology, Food webs analysis, Estuarine and freshwater wetlands, Ecosystem ecology, Fisheries, Univeriate and multivariate statistical analysis, Laboratory and field experimentation.
Qualifications & Achievements
- PhD in Science, Australian Catholic University (ACU National)
- MSc in Environmental Technology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
- Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
- Visiting Fellow (2012-present), University of New South Wales
- Associate Editor: Wetlands (Springer Internatioinal Journals)
- Recipient of John Holliday Conservation Award 2002 from Department of Primary Industries (Fisheries) NSW, Australia for the most significant research contribution to the conservation of fisheries habitat in NSW
Committee Memberships and Affiliations
- Research Interest: Stable and radioisotopes in aquatic ecology, ecosystem process and functionality, carbon dynamics and sequestration in wetlands, trophic ecology and human impact on aquatic ecosystem.
- Current Research Collaborators: Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), NSW Australia; Department of Primary Industries (DPI), NSW Fisheries, Australia; University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia; University of Wollongong (UoW), Australia
- Referee for the international journal of Marine and Freshwatetr Research (MFWR), Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science (ECSS), Marine Ecology (ME), Marine Ecology Progress Series (MEPS), River Research and Applications, Hydrobiologia, Local Environment, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Journal of Sea Research (JSR).
Publications
Smith, J, A., Mazumder, D., Suthers, I. M., Taylor, M. D (2013). To fit or not to fit: evaluating stable isotope mixing models using simulated mixing polygons. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. DOI:10.1111/2041-210X.12048
Alderson, B., Mazumder, D., Saintilan, N., Zimmerman, K., and Mulry, P (in press). Application of isotope mixing models to discriminate dietary sources over small-scale patches in saltmarsh. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
Saintilan, N., Rogers, K., Mazumder, D., Woodroffe, C (2013) Allochthnous and autochthonous contributions to carbon accumulation and carbon store in southeastern Australian coastal wetlands, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science,10.1016/j.ecss.2013.05.010
Mazumder, D., Johansen, M., Saintilan, N., Iles, J., Kobayash, T., Knowles, L., and Wen, L (2012). Trophic shifts involving native and exotic fish during hydrologic recession in floodplain Wetlands, WETLANDS 32:267-275.
Carolan, J. V., Mazumder, D., Dimovski, C., Diocares, R., Twining, J (In press) Biokinetics and discrimination factors for d13C and d15N in the omnivorous freshwater crustacean, Cherax destructor. Marine and Freshwater Research.
Mazumder, D., Saintilan, N., Williams, J. R., and Szymczak, R. (2011). Trophic importance of a temperate intertidal wetland to resident and itinerant taxa: evidence from multiple stable isotope analyses. Marine and Freshwater Research 62, 11-19
Mazumder, D., Iles, J., Kelleway, J., Kobayash, T., Knowles, L., Saintilan, N., and Hollins, S (2010) Effect of acidification on elemental and isotopic compositions of sediment organic matter and macroinvertebrate muscle tissues in food web research. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY 24:2938-2924 doi:10.1002/rcm.4729
Kelleway, J., Mazumder, D., Wilson, G., Saintilan, N., Knowles, L., and Kobayash, T. (2010) Trophic structure of benthic resources and consumers varies across a regulated floodplain wetland. Marine and Freshwater Research 61:430-440.
Iles, J., Kelleway, J., Knowles, L., Kobayashi, T., Mazumder, D., Priddel, D., and Saintilan, N (2010) Grazing kangaroos act as local recyclers of energy on semiarid floodplains. Australian Journal of Zoology 58:145-149
Mazumder D., and Saintilan N. (2010) Mangrove leaves are not an important dietary source of carbon and nitrogen for crabs in temperate Australian mangroves, Wetlands 30:375-380 doi: 10.1007/s13157-010-0021-2
Taylor, D. J. M., and Mazumder, D. (2010) Stable isotopes reveal post-release trophodynamic and ontogenetic changes in a released finfish, mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus), Marine and Freshwater Research 61:302-308
Saintilan, N., and Mazumder, D. (2010) Fine-scale variability in the dietary sources of grazing invertebrates in a temperate Australian saltmarsh. Marine and Freshwater Research 61:615-620
Kobayashi, T., Ryder, D. S., Ralph, J. T., Mazumder, D., Saintilan, N., Jordan I., Knowles, L., Thomas, R., Hunter, S. (2010) Longitudinal spatial variation in ecological conditions in an in-channel floodplain river system during flow pulses. River Research and Applications doi: 10.1002/rra.1381 Book chapter
Kelleway, J., Mazumder, D., Wilson, G., and Kobayashi, Y. (2010) Using isotopic techniques to assess trophic structure in northern Murray Darling Basin wetlands. In: Saintilan, N and Overton, I (Eds.) Ecosystem Response Modelling in the Murray Darling Basin (CSIRO Publishing). P-427
Mazumder, D. (2009) Ecology of burrowing crabs in temperate saltmarsh of southeast Australia. In: Saintilan, N (Eds.), Australian Saltmarsh Ecology, P 248, CSIRO Publishing