What happens when you add salt: Predicting impacts of secondary salinisation on shallow aquatic ecosystems by using an alternative-states model

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 715-724

  Davis, Jenny A ^a   McGuire, Megan ^a   Halse, Stuart A ^b   Hamilton, David ^c   Horwitz, Pierre ^d   McComb, Arthur J ^a   Froend, Ray H ^d   Lyons, Michael ^b   Sim, Lien ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Dept of Conserv and Land Mgmt ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^d EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SALINIZATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 1642566150     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT02117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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