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Methods for Assessing the Health of Lake Eyre Basin Rivers

This report provides the required background resource material to enable proceeding to the implementation stage of an assessment of the condition of river ecosystems and catchments in the Lake Eyre Basin.

Methods for Assessing the Health of Lake Eyre Basin Rivers

The purpose of the Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment Methodology Development project was to develop a scientifically based methodology for assessing the condition of river ecosystems and catchments in the Lake Eyre Basin. Community and government have articulated the values of, and threats to, the Basin watercourses; these have been used as a guide for the scope of this assessment methodology.

Assessing the health of Ephemeral Rivers

Assessing the geomorphic and hydrologic aspects of ephemeral rivers is an important part of measuring their health. Ideally, a few accurate, repeatable, rapid measurements would describe their condition and allow changes to be assessed over time. Researchers and managers have developed a large number (hundreds) of hydrologic and geomorphologic indicators which are summarised in this review. Often a suite of indicators, developed by a management agency, will be applied to streams in a (more)...

Assessing the health of Ephemeral Rivers

This project aims to identify the most appropriate methods to assess health in these streams but is also intended to support further development so that ephemeral streams, in other areas of Australia, can also be assessed. The project is being undertaken by the Cooperative Research Centres for Catchment Hydrology and Catchment Ecology. These CRCs are consortiums of the Universities and industry partners with researchers based at University of Adelaide, Griffith University, University of Canberra, (more)...

The Healthy Soils Symposium - Can Australian Soils Sustain our Agricultural Systems?

Proceedings

Investors in the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms programme are proud to convene a Symposium on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The event poses a challenging question and invites farmers, scientists, agronomists and economists to find answers. Can Australian soils sustain our agricultural systems? At this event we are confident that delegates will go home with valuable new perspectives and a better capacity to formulate their own answers. We are particularly proud of (more)...

The Bayesian Network Models for Environmental Flow Decision-making

This final report summerises the activities and outcomes of the Land & Water Australia Project - Environmental Flow Bayesian Network Decision-Making Framework. The development of two Bayesian Network models used as a decision-support tool for determining environmental flows in major rivers in Australia are reported on. The first eFlows BN model was for the Latrobe River in Victoria, a river system that is highly regulated and (more)...

Identifying Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

Groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are important elements in the landscape that require access to groundwater to maintain their health and vigour. They are important because of their conservation, biodiversity, ecological, social and economic value.

There are two threats to GDEs — outright loss of habitat and outright loss of groundwater resources.