Modelling future conditions in the degraded semi-arid estuary of Australia's largest river using ecosystem states

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Lester, Rebecca E ^a   Fairweather, Peter G ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

alternative stable states; Coorong, Murray Darling Basin, South Australia; ecological response modelling; ecosystem states; multivariate analysis; spatial variation; temporal variation

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DECLINE; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THRESHOLD;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; COORONG; MURRAY RIVER; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70349740989     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.04.018     Document Type: Article

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