Identifying Major Stressors: The Essential Precursor to Restoring Cultural Ecosystem Services in a Degraded Estuary

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1007-1017

  Davis, Jenny ^a   Kidd, Ian M ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Aquatic Ecosystems Research Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic flow regime; Hydroelectricity; Tidal prism; Tidal wetlands

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLOCCULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84861839093     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-012-9498-7     Document Type: Article

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