TY - BOOK
T1 - Food resource availability, energy content and nutritional value of major food sources for key fish and waterbird species under varying environmental conditions in the Coorong
AU - Dittmann, Sabine
AU - Ye, Qifeng
AU - Furst, Deborah
AU - Newbery, Anthony
AU - Nitschke, Josh
AU - Bucater, Luciana
AU - Pyke, William
AU - Kent, Jordan
AU - Schroder, Laura
AU - Henkens, Jessica
AU - Baring, Ryan
AU - Lam-Gordillo, Orlando
AU - Brookes, Justin
AU - Short, David
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 of inflows (Brookes et al. 2018; Mosley et al. 2018). Whilst there has been recovery of some elements of the Coorong ecosystem associated with increased inflows since the Millennium Drought ended in 2010 (Dittmann et al. 2015; Hemraj et al. 2017; Brookes et al. 2022), 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 macroinvertebrates, fish and waterbirds (Brookes et al. 2018). These changes in the ecosystem and the lack of recovery are likely caused by several 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 of inflows (Brookes et al. 2018; Mosley et al. 2018). Whilst there has been recovery of some elements of the Coorong ecosystem associated with increased inflows since the Millennium Drought ended in 2010 (Dittmann et al. 2015; Hemraj et al. 2017; Brookes et al. 2022), 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 macroinvertebrates, fish and waterbirds (Brookes et al. 2018). These changes in the ecosystem and the lack of recovery are likely caused by several 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.
M3 - Commissioned report
T3 - Goyder Institute for Water Research Technical Report Series
BT - Food resource availability, energy content and nutritional value of major food sources for key fish and waterbird species under varying environmental conditions in the Coorong
PB - Goyder Institute for Water Research
CY - Adelaide, South Australia
ER -