Using hydroacoustics to monitor fish migration
Key words: split beam, hydroacoustics, sound waves, fish counting, fish migration. Understanding how effective a new fishway is at providing passage for migratory fish is an important part of the...
View ArticleAssessing fishway options for weirs of the northern Murray-Darling Basin
Key words: Fish passage, fish migration, fisway, prioritisations, northern Murray-Darling Basin Threats and Impacts: Barriers to migration have been identified as a major contributor to the decline of...
View ArticleBehavioural aggression in Gambusia holbrooki is conditional upon temperature...
Key words: Eastern Gambusia, aggression, pest fish, Native Fish Strategy. Threats and Impacts: Introduced to Australia in 1925 as a potential mosquito control agent, the fish Gambusia (Gambusia...
View ArticleScoping study to determine the methodologies and data availability for...
Key words: hotspots, resilience, native fish, Native Fish Strategy Recent ecological research at the landscape scale suggests that there may be key locations, or “hotspots”, that play a...
View ArticleAssessment of an infrared fish counter (Vaki Riverwatcher) to quantify fish...
Key words: infrared, fish counting, VAKI Riverwatcher, fish migration, Native Fish Strategy A number of fishways have been constructed under the auspices of the NFS to help reinstate passage of fish...
View ArticleThe potential for Mozambique Tilapia to invade the Murray–Darling Basin and...
Key words: Tilapia, pest fish, invasion risk, Native Fish Strategy Threats and Impacts: Mozambique Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) is a major pest fish species in Australia (Fig 1). A successful...
View ArticleThe identification and protection of drought refuges for native fish in the...
Key words: drought, refuge, native fish, Native Fish Strategy Threats and Impacts: From 1996 to 2009, the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) experienced severe drought conditions. As the impacts of the drought...
View ArticleUnderstanding the original distribution and abundance of fish fauna in the...
Key words: Oral history, native fish, Native Fish Strategy Threats and Impacts: One of the main goals of the Native Fish Strategy (NFS) was to return native fish communities in the MDB to 60% of that...
View ArticleCooks River Naturalisation, Sydney, NSW Australia
By Dan Cunningham Key words: riparian rehabilitation, revegetation, reconstruction A reach of the Cooks River prior to and after naturalisation Sydney Water have undertaken a project to convert 1.1km...
View ArticleTwelve years of healing: Rehabilitating a willow-infested silt flat –...
Alan Lane Key words: weed management, National Park, headwall, instability, Salix The site: Popes Glen Creek is a small permanent stream rising in Memorial Park, Blackheath New South Wales, Australia....
View ArticleDewfish Demonstration Reach: Restoring native fish populations in the...
Key words: native fish, riparian habitat, fish passage, aquatic habitat, Native Fish Strategy The Dewfish Demonstration Reach is a 110 kilometre stretch of waterway in the Condamine catchment in...
View ArticleBrady Swamp wetland complex, Grampians National Park, Victoria
Mark Bachmann Key words: wetland restoration, Wannon River, hydrology, drainage, Gooseneck Swamp A series of wetlands associated with the floodplain of the Wannon River (Walker, Gooseneck, and Brady...
View ArticleLong Swamp, Discovery Bay Coastal Park, Victoria
Mark Bachmann Key words: wetland restoration, Ramsar, hydrology, Glenelg River, drainage Long Swamp is a 15 km long coastal freshwater wetland complex situated in Discovery Bay Coastal Park,...
View ArticlePiccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park, South Australia
Mark Bachmann Key words: wetland restoration, Ramsar, rising springs, drainage, hydrology Piccaninnie Ponds Conservation Park is situated 30 km south east of Mt Gambier in South Australia. For 15-20...
View ArticleRestoring wetland communities in the Coorong and Lower Lakes, South Australia
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View ArticleLandscape-scale terrestrial revegetation around the Coorong, Lower Lakes and...
Hafiz Stewart, Ross Meffin, Sacha Jellinek Key words. Restoration, prioritisation, woodland, ecosystems Introduction. Located in South Australia at the terminus of the Murray-Darling River, the...
View ArticleRecovery of indigenous plants and animals in revegetated areas at ‘The...
Photo 1. Aerial view of Waterways from the west By Damien Cook Introduction. Waterways is a 48-hectare restoration project located on Mordialloc Creek in Melbourne’s south- eastern suburbs which...
View ArticleRecovering Murray-Darling Basin fishes by revitalizing a Native Fish Strategy...
John Koehn, Mark Lintermans and Craig Copeland [Update of EMR Feature: Koehn JD, Lintermans M, Copeland C (2014) Laying the foundations for fish recovery: The first 10 years of the Native Fish Strategy...
View ArticleRestoring the banks of the Namoi on Kilmarnock – UPDATE of EMR feature
Robyn R. Watson [Update of EMR feature – Watson R. (2009) Restoring the banks of the Namoi on ‘Kilmarnock’: Success arising from persistence. Ecological Management & Restoration, 10: 1 pp 10-19...
View ArticleEcological restoration and rehabilitation at Sydney Olympic Park – UPDATE to...
Jennifer O’Meara and Kerry Darcovich [Update to EMR feature – O’Meara, Jennifer and Kerry Darcovich (2015) Twelve years on: Ecological restoration and rehabilitation at Sydney Olympic Park, Ecological...
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