Paperbark-dominated wetlands: extensive, valuable and neglected? : Rehabilitation of paperbark-dominated wetlands of the Gippsland Lakes Ramsar site, Victoria

• Main Author: Boon, Paul I
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australia. Dept of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Community 2011
• Subjects: 0501 Ecological Applications; 0502 Environmental Science and Management; 9606 Environmental and Natural Resource Evaluation; Institute for Sustainability and Innovation (ISI); ResPubID23356; wetlands; rehabilitation; salinisation; Isi; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://vuir.vu.edu.au/9033/; http://www.environment.gov.au/water/publications/environmental/wetlands/wetlands-australia/pubs/wa-19.pdf

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.