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Environmental water allocation in poorly understood aquatic ecosystems across Australia

Innovative techniques for managing multiple threats to high value aquatic systems

This four-year multidisciplinary R&D project, supported by a range of agencies and organisations leveraged off core funding by Land & Water Australia, aimed to rehabilitate Dowd Morass, a 1,500 ha Ramsar-listed wetland fringing Lake Wellington (Gippsland Lakes, south-eastern Victoria).  A substantial component of the R&D project involved the landscape-scale manipulation of water regimes using as BACI-type experimental design.  (more)...

Knowledge needs for the Environmental Water Allocation R&D Program

This report and accompanying database identifies agencies and networks in Australian and state government agencies and regional organisations who are responsible for the development and implementation of environmental water allocation policies and plans, namely water sector policy makers at the federal level; water sector policy makers and managers at state level; and regional and state water managers in Natural Resource Management (NRM) organisations. The report outlines the (more)...

Knowledge needs for the Environmental Water Allocation R&D Program

The Environmental Water Allocation Program engages with water managers and regional communities to build upon knowledge required for managing our rivers and waterways in a healthy state. This foundation project gram examined knowledge needs for the Program.

Environmental water allocation in poorly understood aquatic ecosystems across Australia

Unlike the well-studied stressed rivers, there is a dearth of research in the less heavily used rivers. Most lie in tropical Australia along the coastline, in Tasmania and in the semi-arid inland. In these systems, there is a need to undertake the fundamental research of ecological response to different flow regimes upon which management plans can be built.

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Ecology and management of the Lake Wellington wetlands, Gippsland Lakes

A report on the R&D project, 2003-2006

This handbook summarises the results of a four-year R&D project undertaken by staff at Victoria University and Monash University on the wetlands that fringe Lake Wellington in the Gippsland Lakes of south-eastern Victoria.

Innovative techniques for managing multiple threats to high value aquatic systems

The key element of this project involves the landscape-scale (1,500 ha) manipulation of water regimes on Dowd Morass in the Gippsland Lakes. Dowd Morass is subject to an inappropriate water regime, having been flooded more-or-less permanently since the mid 1970s despite it having probably experienced annual draw down and a dry period every 2-5 years under natural conditions in earlier times before river regulation and catchment development. It is subject also to chronic salinisation from saline (more)...

Water use across a catchment and effects on estuarine health

This project has been completed by Scheltinga, D.M., Fearon, R., Bell, A. and Heydon, L. from FARI Australia Pty Ltd and the Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management.