Inland waters
Theme commentary
Professor Graham Harris, ESE Systems
prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee, 2006
This document was commissioned for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee. This and other commissioned documents support the Committee's Report but are not part of it.
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Contents
- Introduction
- Catchment scale influences
- Habitat scale influences
- Response of animals and plants to catchment disturbance and the alteration of flow regimes
- Stream metabolism: the processing and cycling of nutrients and other materials in inland waters
- Human response—policy and management
- Conclusions
- References
- Glossary
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Peer reviewers
Professor Tom McMahon, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Dr Peter E Davies, Freshwater Systems
Dr Richard Evans, Sinclair Knight Merz
Citation
Harris, G 2006, ‘Inland waters’, theme commentary prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra, <http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/commentaries/water/index.html>
Inland waters related SoE 2006 information
Main report
Theme commentaries
Integrative commentaries
Current or emerging issues
- A dying shame - Australian coastal freshwater lakes
- Groundwater fauna
- Progress in restoring our environment
- Property rights and the environment
- Spring wetlands of the Great Artesian Basin
- The coastal pollution halo
- The dilemma of conflicting environmental outcomes
- The Wentworth Group and the great water debate
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