Amrit Mishra
- amrit.mishra@jcu.edu.au
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9605-3865- Senior Research Officer
- Tropical Water & Ecosystems
Projects
9
Publications
12
Awards
0
Contact Details
Senior Research Officer
- +61439050253
- amrit.mishra@jcu.edu.au
- https://portfolio.jcu.edu.au/researchers/amrit.mishra
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105-C, TropWATER
145 ATSIP Building
James Cook University
Biography
Research
Projects
Protection, Restoration and Management of Seagrass and Saltmarsh Ecosystems of India
27 Jun 2025 - 30 Jun 2027
Small Equipment Grant
02 Jun 2025 - 31 Dec 2025
Cairns airport wetland restoration
17 Dec 2024 - 01 May 2026
Town Common Wetland Restoraiton NQDT
21 Nov 2024 - 30 Mar 2026
Townsville City Council Saltmarsh Restoration
30 Oct 2024 - 31 Mar 2026
Small equipment grant for water quality monitoring multiparameter instrument
15 Jul 2024 - 31 Dec 2024
Jaragun wetland restoration research
21 Apr 2024 - 27 Feb 2026
Herbert River Blue Carbon investigation Waltham
05 Mar 2024 - 13 Dec 2024
Expanding Traditional Owner led seagrass monitoring and restoration in the Girringun TUMRA
14 Feb 2024 - 01 Aug 2025
Teaching
Teaching Interests
Coastal ecology, Climate Change, Biogeochemistry, Wetland Restoration
Output
Size‐Dependent Habitat Selection in a Tropical Freshwater Crayfish: Preference for Vegetated Refugia
2026
Heide, Mitchell; Cartwright, Paula; Mishra, Amrit K.; Squires, Antony; Waltham, Nathan J. (2026) 'Size‐Dependent Habitat Selection in a Tropical Freshwater Crayfish: Preference for Vegetated Refugia'. Ecology and Evolution, 16 (5). [DOI]
Mishra, Anjalis; Rai, Shashi Kant; Farooq, Syed; Mishra, Amrit Kumar (2026) 'Long-Term Expansion, Ecosystem Services and Management Trade-Offs of Phragmites karka in Asia's Largest Lagoon'. Aquatic Conservation: marine and freshwater ecosystems, 36 . [DOI]
Mishra, Amrit Kumar; Van Luong, Cao; Premarathne, Chanaka; Dangan-Galon, Floredel D.; Fortes, Miguel; Hossain, Mohammad Shawkat; Gaitan-Espitia, Juan (2026) 'Lack of local management and limited adaptive capacity are pushing the vulnerable seagrass (Halophila beccarii Aschers.) towards extinction across the Indo-Pacific'. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 7 . [DOI]
Job, Samson; Mishra, Amrit Kumar (2025) 'Ocean Acidification Research on Ecologically and Economically Important Sea Cucumbers Is Limited Globally'. Aquatic Conservation: marine and freshwater ecosystems, 35 (4):1-7. [DOI]
Seascape connectivity has low influence on seagrass blue carbon in tropical oligotrophic Islands
2025
Mishra, Amrit Kumar; Farooq, Syed Hilal (2025) 'Seascape connectivity has low influence on seagrass blue carbon in tropical oligotrophic Islands'. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 327 . [DOI]
Hintz, Jacqueline; Patel, Shailee D.; Mishra, Amrit; Ambrum, Robert; Kee, Callum A.; Beaut, Talia; Owen, Liz; Ah-Kee, Dennis; Waltham, Nathan J. (2025) 'Teal carbon eelgrass in tidal freshwater estuaries: successful laboratory trial before large-scale field restoration'. Restoration Ecology, 33 (8). [DOI]
Sasmito, Sigit D.; Mishra, Amrit K.; Duvert, Clement; Montagna, Lamberto; Barkley, Alexander; Widanto, Dzaki; Mulloy, Rory; Cartwright, Paula (2025) 'Contrasting sediment and aquatic CO2 and CH4 effluxes across Australian tropical salt flat, saltmarsh, mangrove and tidally restricted wetlands'. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 330 . [DOI]
Arnaud, Marie; Lovelock, Catherine E.; Maceiras, Marion; Thuong-Huyen, Dang; Robin, Sarah; Abiven, Samuel; Mishra, Amrit Kumar; Farooq, Syed Hilal; Bhadra, Tuhin; Felbacq, Axel; Marchand, Cyril; Bottinelli, Nicolas; Le, Thanh-Phong; Amir, Ahmad Aldrie; Rumpel, Cornelia (2025) 'The nature of soil blue carbon varies across mangrove geomorphic settings'. Communications Earth & Environment, 6 . [DOI]
Short-term nitrogen enrichment induces sulfide intrusion in tropical oligotrophic seagrass meadows
2025
Mishra, Amrit Kumar; Farooq, Syed Hilal (2025) 'Short-term nitrogen enrichment induces sulfide intrusion in tropical oligotrophic seagrass meadows'. Rhizosphere, 35 . [DOI]
Mishra, Amrit Kumar; Rasheed, Raihana; Farooq, Syed Hilal (2025) 'Seagrass population dynamics and biodiversity assemblages indicate negative effects of short-term nutrient enrichment in tropical island ecosystem'. Journal of Environmental Management, 373 . [DOI]
Seascape connectivity with mangroves positively influences tropical saltmarsh blue carbon stocks
2025
Mishra, Amrit Kumar; Dey, Arindam; Mishra, Anjalis; Mohakud, Sandip Kumar; Farooq, Syed Hilal (2025) 'Seascape connectivity with mangroves positively influences tropical saltmarsh blue carbon stocks'. Science of the Total Environment, 969 . [DOI]
Mishra, Amrit Kumar; Mishra, Anjalis; Mohakud, Sandip Kumar; Acharya, Prasannajit; Muduli, Pradipta Ranjan; Farooq, Syed Hilal (2024) 'COVID-19 induced lockdown reduced metal concentration in the surface water and bottom sediment of Asia's largest lagoon'. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 209 (Part A). [DOI]