Dynamics of Murray-Darling floodplain forests under multiple stressors: The past, present, and future of an Australian icon

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Cunningham, Shaun C ^a   Baker, Patrick J ^a   Horner, Gillis J ^a   Thomson, James R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; FLOOD PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; FOREST STRUCTURE; GROUNDWATER CONDITIONS; HABITAT QUALITY; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; HUMAN ACTIONS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; LIFE HISTORY; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; MURRAY RIVER; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; RE-ESTABLISHING; REMNANT FORESTS; RIVER FLOW; RIVER SYSTEMS; TIMBER RESOURCES;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; PLANT EXTRACTS; RIVERS; TIMBER;

CONSERVATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MIXED FOREST; MONOCOTYLEDON; RIVER FLOW; TIMBER HARVESTING;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

AVES; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958805235     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010383     Document Type: Article

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