Adaptation services of floodplains and wetlands under transformational climate change

Ecological Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1003-1017

  Colloff, Matthew J ^a   Lavorel, Sandra ^b   Wise, Russell M ^a   Dunlop, Michael ^a   Overton, Ian C ^a   Williams, Kristen J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Australia; Ecosystem resilience; Ecosystem services; Environmental flows; Flood regimes; Management options; Management responses; Murray Darling Basin; Water resources

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FLOODPLAIN; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; RIPARIAN FOREST; RIVER FLOW; WATER RESOURCE; WETLAND; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; RIVER; WATER FLOW; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84973452329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2js61     Document Type: Article

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