Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0560552

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0560552

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Sediment-derived scenarios of wetland status and change, the Lower River Murray, SA. River Murray wetlands changed early in European settlement so the pre-impact conditions are invisible to managers relying on anecdote or monitoring. Baseline conditions of wetlands can be derived from ecological archives preserved in sediments. Fossil diatom assemblages, reflective of past water quality, and other fossils, will be exhumed from sediment sequences to reconstruct wetland conditions. The integration of multiple indicators of the past will generate graphic re-enactments of natural wetland dynamics. These will provide a vision for community and government on-ground managers enabling them to perceive appropriate targets for wetland state and so generate measures to work towards sustainable conditions.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 02-2005

End Date: 12-2007

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $187,953.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Palaeoecology | Ecology | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation | Freshwater Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Rehabilitation of degraded areas | Land and water management |

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