Irrigation Mosaics in Northern Australia

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The Northern Australia Irrigation Futures (NAIF) project has undertaken a review of research into irrigation mosaics as an approach to irrigation in northern Australia. Irrigation mosaics involve smaller patches of irrigation distributed across the landscape as an alternative to large contiguous areas of irrigation (see Figure 1).

This research has examined the current understanding of irrigation mosaics drawing lessons from ecology, forestry, meteorology and saline basins. This work aims to aid understanding of the concept of irrigation mosaics and whether it may be an appropriate style of irrigation for northern Australia. This research has also investigated the application of existing and new biophysical modelling and analysis tools to explore potential advantages and disadvantages of irrigation mosaics.