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The challenge of setting ‘climate ready’ ecological targets for environmental flow planning

The challenge of setting ‘climate ready’ ecological targets for environmental flow planning

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Authors

Meegan Judd, Nicholas Bond, Avril Horne

Abstract

Implementing environmental flows has emerged as a major restoration tool for addressing the impacts of hydrologic alteration in large river systems. The ‘natural flow paradigm’ has been a central guiding principle for determining important ecohydrological relationships. Yet, climate change and associated changes in rainfall run off relationships, seasonality of flows, disruptions to food webs and species life cycle cues mean these existing relationships will, in many circumstances, become obsolete. Revised thinking around setting ecological objectives is required to ensure restoration targets are achievable, particularly in regions where wate...  more

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31223/X5V04P

Subjects

Biodiversity, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Other Life Sciences

Keywords

environmental flows, climate change, objectives, adaptation

Dates

Published: 2021-12-07 22:36

License

CC BY Attribution 4.0 International

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Conflict of interest statement:
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