Natural and post-European settlement variability in water quality of the lower Snowy River floodplain, eastern Victoria, Australia

River Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 201-213

  MacGregor, Angus J ^a   Gell, Peter A ^a   Wallbrink, Peter J ^b   Hancock, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Baselines; Diatoms; Environmental flows; Lake Curlip; Palaeoecology; Salinity; Snowy River

Indexed keywords

WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA]; WORLD;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; VICTORIA;

EID: 15544387327     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.841     Document Type: Article

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