Status of connected wetlands of the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia

Austral Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 460-471

  Pisanu, Philip ^a   Kingsford, Richard T ^b   Wilson, Bruce ^c   Bonifacio, Ronald ^a  

^a Water Resources Group   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Eco Logical Australia Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; IUCN Red List criteria; Risk assessment; River basin; River regulation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; RED LIST; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; RIVER FLOW; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; LAKE EYRE BASIN; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84929901910     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12203     Document Type: Article

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