The River Murray-Darling Basin: Ecosystem Response to Drought and Climate Change

Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 217-234

  Overton, Ian C ^a   Doody, Tanya M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Ecosystems; Environmental degradation; Water allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955744241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6636-5_12     Document Type: Chapter

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