Paperbark-dominated wetlands: extensive, valuable and neglected? : Rehabilitation of paperbark-dominated wetlands of the Gippsland Lakes Ramsar site, Victoria
Dowd Morass presents a formidable challenge for wetland managers to rehabilitate. It is a high-value (Ramsar-listed) wetland and so needs to be managed appropriately. Yet it suffers from the chronic salinisation that occurred soon after the Gippsland Lakes were linked with a permanent entrance to th...
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Australia. Dept of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Community
2011
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| Online Access: | https://vuir.vu.edu.au/9033/ http://www.environment.gov.au/water/publications/environmental/wetlands/wetlands-australia/pubs/wa-19.pdf |
| Summary: | Dowd Morass presents a formidable challenge for wetland managers to rehabilitate. It is a high-value (Ramsar-listed) wetland and so needs to be managed appropriately. Yet it suffers from the chronic salinisation that occurred soon after the Gippsland Lakes were linked with a permanent entrance to the Southern Ocean at Lakes Entrance in the late nineteenth century. This article discusses the project that demonstrated the ecological benefits that can accrue from a carefully considered and implemented manipulation of water regimes. |
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