Restoring Murray River floodplain wetlands: Does the sediment record inform on watering regime?

• Published in: River research and applications Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 620 - 629
• Main Author: Gell, Peter A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bognor Regis Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.05.2020
• Subjects: basins; Cores; Diatoms; Ecological function; ecological restoration; environmental flows; Flooding; Floodplains; irrigation; Irrigation water; Murray Darling Basin; palaeoecology; Redevelopment; Resource development; resource management; river regulation; River regulations; Rivers; Sediment; Sediments; spring; Volume transport; Water resources; Water resources development; Watersheds; Waterways; Wavelength; wavelengths; Wetlands; winter; Murray River

The floodplain wetlands of the southern Murray Darling Basin (MDB) have been subject to the impacts of catchment and water resource development for more than a century. Their current degraded state is attributed to the regulation of the rivers and ion of water volume for irrigation. The MDB Plan is...