Full Title
The exchange of organic material between the Murray River Channel and Barmah Forest during the 2005 floodplain watering .
Contact Person
Ben Gawne
Project Team
Helen Gigney
Funding Body
Murray-Darling Basin Commission
Duration
completed June 2006
Outcomes
Gigney, H., Petrie, R., Gawne, B. and Nielsen, D. (2006). The exchange of material between the Murray River Channel and Barmah Forest during the 2005 Floodplain Watering. Draft Report prepared for Murray-Darling Basin Commission/Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, June, 40pp.
Summary
The objectives of this project are to:
- Monitor the impact of forest watering and the environmental flow regime on water quality and zooplankton.
- Quantify the exchange of material between the Barmah Forest and the Murray River channel and its impact on metabolism in the river.
- Calibrate the blackwater model developed for the Barmah Forest.
MDFRC propose a series of fortnightly sampling trips to collect water quality, river metabolism and microinvertebrate samples in the main channel of the river upstream (2 sites) and downstream of Barmah Forest (2 sites) during the 2005 environmental allocation (six sampling trips over a period of three months).
