Floodplain productivity - FFA River Flows and Connectivity – higher trophic level responses to floodplain inundation in the Murray-Darling Basin (zooplankton and shrimps)

Project Member(s): Hitchcock, J.

Funding or Partner Organisation: NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure DPHI (previously NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment)
NSW Department of Planning, Housing, and Infrastructure DPHI (previously NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment)

Start year: 2023

Summary: The aim of this project is to understand the role of environmental water used to create small to medium overbank floods can higher trophic animals in the Murray-Darling Basin

Publications:

Hitchcock, JN, Brooks, AJ, Haeusler, T, McInerney, PJ, Parsons, DF & Thompson, RM 2025, 'Inundation of different river bank heights influences organic matter concentrations and zooplankton abundance', Limnology and Oceanography.
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FOR Codes: Environmental assessment and monitoring, Assessment and management of freshwater ecosystems

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