TY - BOOK
T1 - Coorong nutrient cycling and fluxes
AU - Huang, Jianyin Leslie
AU - Welsh, David
AU - Erler, Dirk
AU - Ferguson, Angus
AU - Brookes, Justin
AU - Keneally, Chris
AU - Chilton, Daniel
AU - Dittmann, Sabine
AU - Lam-Gordillo, Orlando
AU - Southgate, Matilda
AU - Simpson, Stuart
AU - Mosley, Luke
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The Coorong is culturally, environmentally and economically important at local, national and international scales but has experienced a long-term decline in its ecological condition due to reductions in inflows. Whilst there has been recovery of some elements of the Coorong ecosystem associated with increased inflows since the Millennium Drought, the South Lagoon has not recovered to the levels expected. There has been a switch of the ecosystem from being dominated by aquatic plants to algae associated with eutrophication (nutrient enrichment), with subsequent impacts on invertebrates, fish and waterbirds. These changes in the ecosystem and the lack of recovery is likely caused by a number of complex, interacting factors, which are not well understood. This is limiting the capacity to forecast the ecological response to future management scenarios and therefore the capacity of water managers to identify management interventions required to improve the health of the Coorong.
AB - The Coorong is culturally, environmentally and economically important at local, national and international scales but has experienced a long-term decline in its ecological condition due to reductions in inflows. Whilst there has been recovery of some elements of the Coorong ecosystem associated with increased inflows since the Millennium Drought, the South Lagoon has not recovered to the levels expected. There has been a switch of the ecosystem from being dominated by aquatic plants to algae associated with eutrophication (nutrient enrichment), with subsequent impacts on invertebrates, fish and waterbirds. These changes in the ecosystem and the lack of recovery is likely caused by a number of complex, interacting factors, which are not well understood. This is limiting the capacity to forecast the ecological response to future management scenarios and therefore the capacity of water managers to identify management interventions required to improve the health of the Coorong.
KW - Coorong
KW - Ecological health
KW - Remediation
KW - Nutrients
M3 - Commissioned report
T3 - Goyder Institute for Water Research Technical Report Series
BT - Coorong nutrient cycling and fluxes
PB - Goyder Institute for Water Research
CY - Adelaide, South Australia
ER -