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Author Mussared, David, 1961-

Title Living on floodplains / by David Mussared
Published [Canberra] : Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology; The Murray-Darling Basin Commission, [1997]
©1997

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Description vi, 136 pages : color illustrations, color portraits, color maps ; 30 cm
Contents 1. Overview -- 2. What's a floodplain worth? -- 3. Sculpting floodplains -- 4. Nature's foodbowls -- 5. Australia's little Amazon -- 6. Why rivers need floods -- 7. Of drought and flooding plains -- 8. Solar-powered life -- 9. Little animals -- 10. Big animals -- 11. Since European settlement -- 12. Turning off the tap -- 13. The green invasion -- 14. Introduced animals -- 15. Other human impacts -- 16. Life of a thousand bandaids? -- 17. Managing water -- 18. Managing floodplains -- 19. Living on floodplains
Analysis Australian
Notes Cover title
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 126-128
Subject Floodplain ecology -- Australia -- Murray River Valley (N.S.W.-S.A.)
Floodplain ecology -- Australia.
Floodplain ecology.
Floodplain management -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Floodplain management -- Australia -- Victoria.
Floodplain management -- Australia.
Floodplain management.
Floodplain plants.
Floodplains -- Australia.
Floodplains.
Groundwater -- Australia -- Murray-Darling Basin (N.S.W.)
Groundwater -- Australia -- Murray-Darling Basin
Groundwater -- Australia.
Groundwater -- Murray-Darling Basin
Groundwater -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Murray-Darling Basin
Groundwater.
Land degradation -- Australia.
Land use, Rural -- Environmental aspects.
Murray-Darling Basin -- Australia -- New South Wales -- History
Wetland ecology -- Australia.
Wetlands -- Australia.
SUBJECT Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002000111 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088643
Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S.A.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93002105 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Murray-Darling Basin (N.S.W.) -- History
Murray-Darling Basin (N.S.W.-Vic.)
Murray-Darling Basin -- History
Author Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology.
Murray-Darling Basin Commission.
ISBN 0858896524