Hydraulic assessment of environmental flow regimes to facilitate fish passage through natural riffles: Shoalhaven river below tallowa dam, New South Wales, Australia

River Research and Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 589-604

  Reinfelds, Ivars ^a   Lincoln Smith, Marcus ^b   Haeusler, Tim ^a   Ryan, David ^a,b   Growns, Ivor ^a  

^a Department of Water and Energy ^*  (Australia)

^b The Ecology Lab Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian bass; Barrier; Environmental flow; Fish passage; Hydraulic modelling; Macquaria novemaculeata; Riffle; River2D

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAVEL BED STREAM; PERCIFORM; RIFFLE; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER FLOW; STREAMFLOW; THRESHOLD;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SHOALHAVEN RIVER; TALLOWA DAM;

MACQUARIA NOVEMACULEATA; PERCICHTHYIDAE; PERCIFORMES;

EID: 77953433223     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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