We always have exciting new projects in development!
Our focus is on how environmental watering provisions have the potential to not only directly benefit the vegetation that is inundated, but indirectly improve condition of deep-rooted vegetation outside the zone of inundation, due to an increased zone of lateral bank recharge.
Lateral bank recharge is an important mechanism for replenishing soil and ground water reserves and is important for maintaining vegetation condition along river channels.
Our projects will hopefully further our understanding of plant - soil - flow interactions. Something we are pretty passionate about here at Flora, Flow & Floodplains!
With our gidgets and gadgets we'll hopefully learn how quickly vegetation responds to various environmental watering provisions, how long the benefits will persist and the extent of potential improvements. Understanding how the vegetation responds to different watering provisions, within different catchments - increases our confidence we will see positive results by restoring river flows and undertaking restoration activities.
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Wallace TA, Gehrig S and Doody TM (2020) A standardised approach to calculating floodplain tree condition to support environmental watering decisions. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 28, 315 - 340.
Gehrig SL (2018) Assessments of the responses of littoral and riparian vegetation to weir pool manipulations in Weir Pools: 7, 8, 9 and 15 of the River Murray. Final report prepared for the Murray–Darling Basin Authority by the School of Life Sciences Albury–Wodonga and Mildura, SLS Publication 196/2018, July, 55pp.
Deane DC, Harding C, Aldridge KT, Goodman AM, Gehrig SL, Nicol JM and Brookes JD (2018) Predicted risks of groundwater decline in seasonal plant communities depend on basin morphology. Wetlands Ecological Management. 26: 359-372.
Deane DC, Nicol JM, Gehrig SL, Harding C, Aldridge KT, Goodman AM and Brookes JD (2017) Hydrological‐niche models predict water plant functional group distributions in diverse wetland types. Ecological Applications 24: 1351 – 1364.
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