Facilitating the restoration of aquatic plant communities in a Ramsar wetland
Autor: | Jason Nicol, Hafiz Stewart, Susan Gehrig, Thai Te, Sacha Jellinek |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Ecology biology Agroforestry fungi Biodiversity food and beverages Wetland Plant community Bulrush Native plant biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Geography Aquatic plant Species richness Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation |
Zdroj: | Restoration Ecology. 24:528-537 |
ISSN: | 1061-2971 |
DOI: | 10.1111/rec.12355 |
Popis: | Human activities such as land clearing and intensive land use around water bodies, particularly wetlands, have a detrimental impact on water quality and quantity, aquatic plant communities, and associated wetland fauna. Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert are internationally significant Ramsar wetlands located at the terminus of the Murray River, Australia's longest river system. Agriculture, water regulation, and extraction and droughts have had a detrimental impact on native plant communities in the lakes. We studied the influence of young ( |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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