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Monitoring of refuges made by environmental water

February 7, 2023 - ,
Following widespread flooding, hypoxic blackwater conditions have developed throughout the Murray River system resulting in fish kills in some areas.
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Monitoring of refuge patches created in the Edward/Kolety River by environmental water

February 2, 2023 - ,
Following widespread flooding in spring and summer 2022/2023, Hypoxic blackwater conditions have developed throughout the Murray River system resulting in fish kills in some areas.
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Issue 14 – December 2022

December 8, 2022 - ,
In this issue: Unregulated flows continue in the mid-Murray River, Environmental water delivered to rivers via irrigation escapes provide fish refuge from hypoxic blackwater water & Report on Werai Forest published

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Koondrook-Perricoota Floodplain Carbon Sources

November 12, 2021 - ,
Funded by The Living Murray (TLM) program, Forestry Corporation of NSW are seeking to inform water management at Koondrook-Perricoota (KP) Forest in southern NSW by reporting on floodplain carbon sources and hypoxic blackwater risk.

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Hypoxic conditions interrupt flow-response movements of three lowland river fish species

Thiem et al
April 8, 2020 - ,
Understanding movement responses to abiotic stimuli such as river flows is crucial to inform effective management, especially considering that river regulation is contributing to global population declines.
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Adaptive management of environmental flows

Watts et al
September 7, 2017 - , , ,
Using irrigation infrastructure to deliver environmental benefits during a large hypoxic blackwater event in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
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Hypoxic blackwater event in the southern Murray-Darling Basin

December 20, 2016 - ,
Over the past few months there has been widespread flooding in the southern-Murray-Darling Basin associated with record-breaking rainfall in parts of the catchment.

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Research to mitigate blackwater impact

November 1, 2016 - ,
CSU research is informing strategies to reduce native fish deaths following recent flooding in southern NSW.
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