Quantifying water requirements of riparian river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia - implications for the management of environmental flows

Ecohydrology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1471-1487

  Doody, Tanya M ^a   Colloff, Matthew J ^a   Davies, Micah ^a   Koul, Vijay ^a   Benyon, Richard G ^b   Nagler, Pamela L ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Flood frequency; Floodplain ecosystem function; Floodplain vegetation; Inundation; Soil water; Water resource management; Wetland connectivity

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOODS; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RAIN; RIVERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TRANSPIRATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FLOOD PLAINS; INUNDATION; SOIL WATER; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84955654969     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1598     Document Type: Article

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