Over a three-year period, impacts of changed flow regimes in small western-Victorian estuaries with Mediterranean climates were investigated. Ecosystems with artificially increased and reduced freshwater inflows were compared using a whole-system, process-based approach. Studies on such systms are rare despite their vulnerability and ecological importance
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Submitted to the School of Life and Environmental Sciences of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2007
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2006
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