Modified water regime and salinity as a consequence of climate change: Prospects for wetlands of Southern Australia

Climatic Change

Volumn 95, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 523-533

  Nielsen, Daryl L ^a,b   Brock, Margaret A ^c,d  

^a MURRAY DARLING FRESHWATER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BIOTIC COMMUNITY; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DRYING HISTORY; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; FRESHWATER COMMUNITY; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; HUMAN INTERVENTION; HYDROLOGICAL CONDITION; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LONG TERM; NET LOSS; RIVER FLOW; SALT TOLERANT; SHIFT-AND; SHORT TERM; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WATER REGIME;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEWATERING; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; WATER;

WETLANDS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RIVER FLOW; WATER AVAILABILITY; WETLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 70349989275     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9564-8     Document Type: Article

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