Full Title
Flow regieme, water quality and biological interactions between rivers and floodplains
Contact Person
Daryl Nielsen
Project Team
Details
Funding Body
eWater CRC
Duration
January 2006 to January 2012
Outcomes
Products will include flow guidelines for species and functional groups, and predictive or prognostic flow-ecological models that will be useful for assessing management interventions.
Summary
This project aims to advance scientific understanding and management of Australian rivers and their floodplains by assessing how variability in riverine flow across a continuum of wet-summer and wet-winter catchments generates and affects:
- Habitat development and water quality within riverine systems.
- Flow-related ecological requirements and processes of key aquatic and riparian plants, invertebrates and fish species inhabiting rivers and floodplains.
- Surface-groundwater interactions, particularly in relation to riparian and floodplain vegetation.
