The effects of climatic fluctuations and extreme events on running water ecosystems

G Woodward, N Bonada, LE Brown… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Most research on the effects of environmental change in freshwaters has focused on
incremental changes in average conditions, rather than fluctuations or extreme events such …

Putting the “ecology” into environmental flows: ecological dynamics and demographic modelling

W Shenton, NR Bond, JDL Yen, R Mac Nally - Environmental management, 2012 - Springer
There have been significant diversions of water from rivers and streams around the world;
natural flow regimes have been perturbed by dams, barriers and excessive extractions …

Arsenic and heavy metal pollution in wetland soils from tidal freshwater and salt marshes before and after the flow-sediment regulation regime in the Yellow River …

J Bai, R **ao, K Zhang, H Gao - Journal of Hydrology, 2012 - Elsevier
Soil samples were collected in tidal freshwater and salt marshes in the Yellow River Delta
(YRD), northern China, before and after the flow-sediment regulation. Total concentrations of …

Application of machine learning to model wetland inundation patterns across a large semiarid floodplain

S Shaeri Karimi, N Saintilan, L Wen… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Inundation is a primary driver of floodplain ecology. Understanding temporal and spatial
variability of inundation patterns is critical for optimum resource management, particularly in …

Water planning and hydro-climatic change in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

RQ Grafton, J Pittock, J Williams, Q Jiang… - Ambio, 2014 - Springer
More than a third of humanity lives in regions with less than 1 million liters of fresh water per
person per year. Population growth will increase water demand while climate change in arid …

Beguiling and risky:'environmental works and measures' for wetland conservation under a changing climate

J Pittock, CM Finlayson, J Howitt - Hydrobiologia, 2013 - Springer
Abstract In Australia's Murray–Darling Basin, small-scale engineering works called
'environmental works and measures' have been implemented as a basis for river and other …

Inter‐decadal variation in diadromous and potamodromous fish assemblages in a near pristine tropical dryland river

KO Lear, BC Ebner, T Fazeldean… - … of Freshwater Fish, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater ecosystems are both incredibly biodiverse and highly threatened globally.
Variation in environmental parameters including habitat and flow can substantially affect …

Influence of streamflow on spawning‐related movements of golden perch Macquaria ambigua in south‐eastern Australia

WM Koster, DR Dawson, C Liu… - Journal of Fish …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, linkages were examined between movement and spawning behaviour for
golden perch Macquaria ambigua in a lowland river by integrating acoustic telemetry and …

Predicting the potential distribution of a riparian invasive plant: the effects of changing climate, flood regimes and land‐use patterns

JV Murray, KE Stokes… - Global Change Biology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is likely to affect plants in multiple ways, but predicting the consequences for
habitat suitability requires a process‐based understanding of the interactions. This is at odds …

Linking water-resource models to ecosystem-response models to guide water-resource planning–an example from the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

RE Lester, IT Webster, PG Fairweather… - Marine and …, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
Objectively assessing ecological benefits of competing watering strategies is difficult. We
present a framework of coupled models to compare scenarios, using the Coorong, the …