Ecological impacts of dams, water diversions and river management on floodplain wetlands in Australia

RT Kingsford - Austral Ecology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… depend on flows from rivers. Dams, diversions and river management have reduced flooding
… These effects are likely to be widespread as Australia has at least 446 large dams (>10 m …

Challenges in managing dryland rivers crossing political boundaries: lessons from Cooper Creek and the Paroo River, central Australia

RT Kingsford, AJ Boulton… - … : Marine and Freshwater …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
… In this paper, we review what has happened on two dryland rivers (Cooper Creek and
the Paroo River) in central Australia with proposals to regulate for irrigation. After a brief …

Palaeohydrology of lowland rivers in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

PP Hesse, R Williams, TJ Ralph, KA Fryirs… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
… Q bf ) to channel width in modern rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) of southeastern
Australia and applies this to dated palaeochannels of seven rivers to quantify late Quaternary …

Flow characteristics of rivers in northern Australia: implications for development

C Petheram, TA McMahon, MC Peel - Journal of Hydrology, 2008 - Elsevier
Annual, monthly and daily streamflows from 99 unregulated rivers across northern Australia
were analysed to assess the general surface water resources of the region and their …

AusRivAS: using macroinvertebrates to assess ecological condition of rivers in Western Australia

MJ Smith, WR Kay, DHD Edward, PJ Papas… - Freshwater …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
AusRivAS (Australian River Assessment Scheme) models were developed, using
macroinvertebrates as indicators, to assess the ecological condition of rivers in Western Australia as …

Predator and prey interactions of fishes of a tropical Western Australia river revealed by dietary and stable isotope analyses

DC Thorburn, H Gill, DL Morgan - … Australia, 2014 - researchportal.murdoch.edu.au
Stomach content analyses of fishes occurring in the Fitzroy River, Western Australia, were
used to investigate seasonal and ontogenetic changes in the diets and feeding relationships …

Salinisation and prospects for biodiversity in rivers and wetlands of south-west Western Australia

SA Halse, JK Ruprecht, AM Pinder - Australian Journal of Botany, 2003 - CSIRO Publishing
… Nevertheless, a 1998 review of salinity trends in rivers of south-west Western Australia showed
… Up to one-third of wetland and river invertebrate species, large numbers of plants and a …

[PDF][PDF] Groundwater‐dependent ecosystems in Australia: It's more than just water for rivers

BBR Murray, MJB Zeppel, GC Hose… - Ecological Management …, 2003 - academia.edu
… in the Northern Territory and River Red Gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) stands in South
Australia probably show facultative dependency. Similarly, rivers flowing in the dry season in …

The sustainable rivers audit: assessing river ecosystem health in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

PE Davies, JH Harris, TJ Hillman… - Marine and Freshwater …, 2010 - CSIRO Publishing
… The Sustainable Rivers Audit (SRA) is a systematic assessment of the health of river
ecosystems in the Murray–Darling Basin (MDB), Australia. It has similarities to the United States’ …

Spatial analysis of anthropogenic river disturbance at regional and continental scales: identifying the wild rivers of Australia

JL Stein, JA Stein, HA Nix - Landscape and urban planning, 2002 - Elsevier
… of human activities known to impact on river condition, with a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) …
assessment of river disturbance from which Australia’s least disturbed or ‘wild’ rivers were …