TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking local ecological outcomes with basin-wide water planning
T2 - a case study of Yanga National Park, an important Australian inland forested wetland
AU - Wen, Li
AU - Saintilan, Neil
N1 - This article also has its title, abstract and keywords translated into French. French title is "Relier les résultats écologiques locaux à la planification de l'eau l'échelle du bassin: une étude de cas sur le parc national Yanga, une importante zone humide boisée de l'intérieur de l'Australie".
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Maintaining and restoring the ecological integrity of floodplains remains a priority for many Australian federal and state government agencies. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) introduced the Proposed Basin Plan 2012, the Australian government's latest basin-scale water planning instrument to promote a healthy, working river system. The proposal seeks to limit surface water (consumptive) use to 10 873 GL year-1 on a long-term average. The controversy prompted by this proposed reduction has underscored a need for rigorous and transparent modelling of ecological benefits. In this paper, we investigate the likely ecological outcomes of the proposal for Yanga National Park, one of the most significant environmental assets in the Murray-Darling Basin, using a decision support system. Our results indicate that the proposal will increase the inundation extent with a 33% (or 7000 ha) increase in median flood. The increase in inundation would improve the hydrological conditions in most wetlands in terms of the frequency and duration of events and inter-flood dry periods and enhance the habitat quality for a range of biota, though benefits are not distributed evenly across the wetland. Editor D. Koutsoyiannis; Guest editor M. AcremanCitation Wen, L. and Saintilan, N. 2014. Linking local ecological outcomes with basin-wide water planning: a case study of Yanga National Park, an important Australian inland forested wetland. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59 (3-4), 904-915.
AB - Maintaining and restoring the ecological integrity of floodplains remains a priority for many Australian federal and state government agencies. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) introduced the Proposed Basin Plan 2012, the Australian government's latest basin-scale water planning instrument to promote a healthy, working river system. The proposal seeks to limit surface water (consumptive) use to 10 873 GL year-1 on a long-term average. The controversy prompted by this proposed reduction has underscored a need for rigorous and transparent modelling of ecological benefits. In this paper, we investigate the likely ecological outcomes of the proposal for Yanga National Park, one of the most significant environmental assets in the Murray-Darling Basin, using a decision support system. Our results indicate that the proposal will increase the inundation extent with a 33% (or 7000 ha) increase in median flood. The increase in inundation would improve the hydrological conditions in most wetlands in terms of the frequency and duration of events and inter-flood dry periods and enhance the habitat quality for a range of biota, though benefits are not distributed evenly across the wetland. Editor D. Koutsoyiannis; Guest editor M. AcremanCitation Wen, L. and Saintilan, N. 2014. Linking local ecological outcomes with basin-wide water planning: a case study of Yanga National Park, an important Australian inland forested wetland. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 59 (3-4), 904-915.
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U2 - 10.1080/02626667.2014.890284
DO - 10.1080/02626667.2014.890284
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901690468
VL - 59
SP - 904
EP - 915
JO - Hydrological Sciences Journal
JF - Hydrological Sciences Journal
SN - 0262-6667
IS - 3-4
ER -