Environmental flow requirements of estuaries: providing resilience to current and future climate and direct anthropogenic changes

D Chilton, DP Hamilton, I Nagelkerken… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Estuaries host unique biodiversity and deliver a range of ecosystem services at the interface
between catchment and the ocean. They are also among the most degraded ecosystems on …

Potential effects of climate change on Australian estuaries and fish utilising estuaries: a review

BM Gillanders, TS Elsdon, IA Halliday… - Marine and …, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
Estuaries are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because changes in
climatic and hydrologic variables that influence freshwater and marine systems will also …

Intermittent rivers: a challenge for freshwater ecology

T Datry, ST Larned, K Tockner - BioScience, 2014 - academic.oup.com
For many decades, river research has been focused on perennial rivers. Intermittent river
research has a shorter history, and recent studies suggest that alternating dry and wet …

[HTML][HTML] Classification and trends in intermittent river flow regimes in Australia, northwestern Europe and USA: A global perspective

E Sauquet, M Shanafield, JC Hammond, C Sefton… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study examines the spatial and temporal variability of flow intermittence over the period
1970–2018 across four countries (Australia, France, UK and the conterminous USA) …

[HTML][HTML] Australian non-perennial rivers: Global lessons and research opportunities

M Shanafield, M Blanchette, E Daly, N Wells… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-perennial rivers are valuable water resources that support millions of humans globally,
as well as unique riparian ecosystems. In Australia, the Earth's driest inhabited continent …

Environmental DNA detects Critically Endangered largetooth sawfish in the wild

CA Simpfendorfer, PM Kyne, TH Noble… - Endangered Species …, 2016 - int-res.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a relatively new tool for the detection of rare, threatened and
invasive species in water bodies. In this study we investigated the utility of an eDNA …

The flood pulse as the underlying driver of vegetation in the largest wetland and fishery of the Mekong Basin

ME Arias, TA Cochrane, D Norton, TJ Killeen, P Khon - Ambio, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Tonle Sap is the largest wetland in Southeast Asia and one of the world's most
productive inland fisheries. The Mekong River inundates the Tonle Sap every year, sha** …

Organic matter loading by hippopotami causes subsidy overload resulting in downstream hypoxia and fish kills

CL Dutton, AL Subalusky, SK Hamilton, EJ Rosi… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Organic matter and nutrient loading into aquatic ecosystems affects ecosystem structure and
function and can result in eutrophication and hypoxia. Hypoxia is often attributed to …

[HTML][HTML] Towards an improved understanding of biogeochemical processes across surface-groundwater interactions in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams

L Gómez-Gener, AR Siebers, MI Arce, S Arnon… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface-groundwater interactions in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES),
waterways which do not flow year-round, are spatially and temporally dynamic because of …

Floodplain inundation and vegetation dynamics in the Alligator Rivers region (Kakadu) of northern Australia assessed using optical and radar remote sensing

DP Ward, A Petty, SA Setterfield, MM Douglas… - Remote Sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Alligator Rivers region is located in the wet–dry tropics along the coastal zone
of northern Australia and contains Kakadu National Park, which is recognized under the …