Paleoecological responses to avulsion and floodplain evolution in a semiarid Australian freshwater wetland

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-91

  Ralph, T J ^a   Kobayashi, T ^b   Garcia A ^c   Hesse, P P ^a   Yonge, D ^a   Bleakley, N ^d   Ingleton, T ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Climate Change and Water NSW ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic invertebrates; Avulsion; Charophytes; Diatoms; Ecological succession; Floodplain evolution; Macquarie Marshes; Macrophytes; Wetland paleoecology

Indexed keywords

AVULSION; CHAROPHYTE; DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; MACROPHYTE; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEMIARID REGION; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; MACQUARIE MARSHES; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHARACEAE; CHARALES; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 78951473316     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: 14400952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2010.534818     Document Type: Article

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