Combining monitoring, models and palaeolimnology to assess ecosystem response to environmental change at monthly to millennial timescales: The stability of Blue Lake, North Stradbroke Island, Australia

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1614-1630

  Barr, Cameron ^a   Tibby, John ^a   Marshall, Jonathan C ^b   Mcgregor, Glenn B ^b   Moss, Patrick T ^c   Halverson, Galen P ^d   Fluin, Jennie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ground water; lake resistance; palaeoecology; temporal scale; water resource planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879816049     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12154     Document Type: Article

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