Environmental flows, river salinity and biodiversity conservation: Managing trade-offs in the Murray-Darling basin

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 619-625

  Goss, Kevin F ^a  

^a Murray Darling Basin Commission   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; SALINITY; TRADE-OFF;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 1642566528     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT03003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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