Bridget Ellen White

Postdoc, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, joint staff

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I am a freshwater ecologist who is interested in figuring out how to test long-standing ecological theories experimentally. I am especially interested in working with benthic macroinvertebrate communities in rivers.

Research projects

AquaBioEx

Teaching

Tutor in https://www.slu.se/en/education/programmes-courses/course/SV0019/30259.2526/Analysis-of-environmental-data-1/

Educational credentials

2016-2019: BSc (Hons) University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

2020-2025: PhD, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Publications

White, B.E., Watson, A., Atkinson, S.T., Robson, B.J., Death, R.G., Hovenden, M.J. and Barmuta, L.A. (2026), Catchment conversion to agriculture alters freshwater macroinvertebrate community responses to flow disturbance: results from a replicated in-stream experiment. Oikos e12033. https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.12033

White, B. E., Yates, L. A., & Barmuta, L. A. (2026). Effects of agricultural land conversion and interstitial sediment on Tasmanian stream macroinvertebrate communities. Marine and Freshwater Research, 77(3), MF25197. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF25197

White, B. E., Hovenden, M. J., & Barmuta, L. A. (2023). Multifunctional redundancy: Impossible or undetected? Ecology and Evolution, 13(8), e10409. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10409

White, B. E., McIntosh, A. R., Febria, C. M., & Warburton, H. J. (2021). The potential role of biotic interactions in stream restoration. Restoration Ecology, 29(5), e13396. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13396