Environmental water allocations are insufficient to control an invasive wetland plant: Evidence from a highly regulated floodplain wetland

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1292-1303

  Vivian, Lyndsey M ^a   Ward, Keith A ^b   Zwart, Alexander B ^a   Godfree, Robert C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Box 1752   (Australia)

Author keywords

Altered disturbance regimes; Barmah Forest; Degraded states; Environmental flows; Environmental water allocations; Hydrological regimes; Juncus ingens; Pseudoraphis spinescens; Restoration; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

JUNCUS;

EID: 84925332058     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12296     Document Type: Article

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