Quantifying changes to historic fish habitat extent on north coast NSW floodplains, Australia

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1469-1479

  Rogers, Kerrylee ^a   Knoll, Evan J ^b   Copeland, Craig ^b   Walsh, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal wetland loss; Drainage; Ecosystem services; Fish habitat; Fish habitat degradation; Wetland restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945161563     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0872-4     Document Type: Article

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