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Managing stock

Key Messages National Riparian Lands Research & Development Program

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  • General Information
  • Product code PN30359
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Management of Riparian Zones

Guidelines for Landholder and Community Participation

Streams within our region are highly valued for a range of reasons including, potable, stock and domestic water supply, recreation (both passive and active), the presence of threatened and vulnerable fish species, aesthetic beauty, biodiversity values, provision of irrigation supplies for production and value adding industry.

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  • Guides and Manuals
  • 2002
  • Product code PN30358
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Improving Water Quality

National Riparian Lands R&D Program Key Messages

This powerpoint presentation has notes to accompany each slide, explaining the key point being made.

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  • General Information
  • Product code PN30357
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Water Allocation to the River Murray wetlands

A basin wide modeling approach

How much water do the wetlands of the Murray River need? This project developed a model of the wetland plant community in 2,746 wetlands from the NSW and Victorian portions of the Murray River basin. The model used as data the average length of time out of each year each wetland was connected to the River Murray over the period 1990-2000. This value, called the connectivity, quantifies the wetting-drying cycle of a wetland. It describes the gradient between a (more)...

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  • General Information
    Fact Sheet
  • Product code PN30309
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Protection of Rivers, River Reaches, and Estuaries of High Conservation Value

The objectives of this project whose principle investigator was Professor Richard Kingsford were to develop broad, Australia-wide support for: A coordinated and national approach to protecting and managing rivers, river reaches and estuaries. A sharing of management and protection strategies and concepts so all States and Territories can learn from each other as they implement various protection measures and invest in protective management actions. (more)...
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Modelling Microbial Utilisation of Macrophyte Organic Matter Inputs to Rivers under Different Flow Conditions

The timing and composition of organic matter (OM) inputs to rivers are important as carbon plays a major role in river functioning. Management of Australian rivers since European settlement has altered inputs of organic matter to these systems. Heterotrophic microbes play a critical role in the transformation of OM in rivers, allowing transfer of carbon to other biota. Alteration to the proportions of OM from different (more)...

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  • Final Report
  • 2006
  • Product code PN30302
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Innovative techniques for managing multiple threats to high value aquatic systems

This four-year multidisciplinary R&D project, supported by a range of agencies and organisations leveraged off core funding by Land & Water Australia, aimed to rehabilitate Dowd Morass, a 1,500 ha Ramsar-listed wetland fringing Lake Wellington (Gippsland Lakes, south-eastern Victoria).  A substantial component of the R&D project involved the landscape-scale manipulation of water regimes using as BACI-type experimental design.  (more)...

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  • Final Report
  • 2007
  • Product code PN30301
  • National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
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Modelling Microbial Utilisation of Macrophyte Organic Matter Inputs to Rivers under Different Flow Conditions

This thesis by Patricia Bowen, University of Canberra investigates the timing and composition of organic matter (OM) inputs to rivers. These are important as carbon plays a major role in river functioning.

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Development of a Catchment Contaminant Cycle for Stakeholder Use

The aims of this project were: To develop a catchment modelling framework to integrate and link component models developed by various researchers, including those contributing to other projects under the Contaminants Program. To conduct initial stakeholder workshops in two regions to articulate broad focus of the project and solicit input viz-a-viz modelling needs. To Conduct technical workshops with modelling specialists (including other (more)...
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Risk-based Approaches for Managing Contaminants in Catchments

The project, undertaken through a research collaboration between Monash University, the University of Melbourne and CSIRO, and in partnership with regional natural resource management agencies, aimed to:

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