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Water for the environment

IMEF publications

The following IMEF publications can be downloaded:

 IMEF an overview brochure

 IMEF Design Report

 State Summary Report for 1998-1999

 1998-2000 State Summary Report

 IMEF Fish Monitoring 1999-2000

 IMEF Wetting terrestrial organic matter, Phase 1, 1998-2005

Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings

IMEF is contributing to the understanding of aquatic ecosystems in NSW as well as how environmental flows affect ecosystem health. Below are a list of journal articles and conference papers published by IMEF practitioners.

Journal articles and peer-reviewed conference papers

Balcombe S.R., Arthington A.H., Foster N.D., Thoms M.C., Wilson G.G. & Bunn S.E. (2006). Fish assemblages of an Australian dryland river: abundance, assemblage structure and recruitment patterns in the Warrego River, Murray-Darling Basin. Marine and Freshwater Research 57, 619-633.

Chessman, B. (2006). Prediction of riverine fish assemblages through the concept of environmental filters. Marine and Freshwater Research 57, 601-609.

Driver, P., Chowdhury, S., Wettin, P. and Jones, H. (2005). Models to predict the effects of environmental flow releases on wetland inundation and the success of colonial bird breeding in the Lachlan River, NSW. Proceedings of the 4^th Annual Stream Management Conference. Launceston, Tasmania 19-22 October 2004.

Driver, P. D., Harris, J. H., Closs, G. P. and Koen, T. (2005). Effects of flow regulation on carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) recruitment in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. River Research and Applications 21, 327-335.

Growns, I. (in press). The influence of changes to river hydrology on freshwater fish in regulated rivers of the Murray-Darling basin. Hydrobiologia.

Growns, I, Astles, K. and Gehrke, P. (2006). Multiscale spatial and small-scale temporal variation in the composition of riverine fish communities. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 114 553-571.

Growns, I. (2004). A numerical classification of reproductive guilds of the freshwater fishes of south-eastern Australia and their application to river management. Fisheries Management and Ecology 11, 369-377.

Hardwick, L., Maguire, J., Foreman, M. and Frazier, P. (2001). Providing Water to Murrumbidgee Billabongs - Maximising Ecological Value. Stream Management. Third Australian Stream Management Conference, Brisbane, 27-29 August.

Mawhinney, Warwick (2004) Restoring biodiversity in the Gwydir wetlands through environmental flows Water Science and Technology 48 73-81.

Mitrovic, S.M., Bowling, L.C., Buckney, R.T (2001). Vertical migration of Anabaena circinalis in the inland, turbid Darling River, Australia; quantifying potential benefits from buoyancy, Journal of Plankton Research 23 47-55.

Mitrovic, S.M., Chessman, B.C., Bowling, L.C., Cooke, R.H. (2005). Modelling suppression of cyanobacterial blooms by flow management in a lowland river. River Research and Applications 21 1-6.

Mitrovic, S.M., Chessman, B.C., Davie, A., Avery, E.L. and Ryan, N. (in press). Development of blooms of Cyclotella meneghiniana and Nitzschia spp. (Bacillariophyceae) in a shallow river and estimation of effective suppression flows. Hydrobiologia

Mitrovic, S.M., Oliver, R.L., Rees, C. Bowling, L.C., Buckney, R.T (2003). Critical flow rates for the growth and dominance of Anabaena circinalis in some turbid freshwater rivers, Freshwater Biology 48 164-172.

Selected Conference and Workshop Proceedings and Presentations (2002 - present)

Patrick Driver, Ivor Stuart, Gerry Closs and John Harris (2006). Carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) impacts and recruitment in Australian wetlands: strategies for management. Proceedings of the 2005 MDBC native fish in wetlands workshop.

Gerry Closs, Steve (Harry) Balcombe, Patrick Driver, Dale McNeil and Michael Shirley (2006). The importance of floodplain wetlands to Murray-Darling fish. Proceedings of the 2005 MDBC native fish in wetlands workshop.

Patrick Driver, Tahir Hameed, Tony Smith, Paul Wettin and Greg Raisin (2005). Rehabilitation of wetland inundation regimes in the Lachlan River, NSW, Australia: achievements and ongoing challenges. Proceedings of the 8th International River Symposium. Brisbane, Queensland 6-9 September 2005.

Mitrovic, S.M., Chessman, B.C., Bowling, L.C. Cooke, R (2004). Suppression of cyanobacterial blooms in the Darling River - Measuring the effects of Environmental Flows. International Conference of Toxic Cyanobacteria, Norway.

Douglas Westhorpe, Lorraine Hardwick, Chris Howden and Bruce Chessman (2003) Biofilm and trophic differences between unregulated and regulated rivers, evidence from stable isotopes and C:N ratios, NISORS Conference, Albury

Lorraine Hardwick, David Hohnberg, Patrick Driver, Bruce Chessman (2003) Use of Functional Attributes of Wetland Invertebrates to Assess Environmental Flow Responses in New South Wales Floodplain Billabongs, NISORS Conference, Albury

Patrick Driver, Lorraine Hardwick, David Hohnberg, Bruce Chessman (2003) Composition of billabong macroinvertebrate communities in relation to long-term river flow regimes and succession in three lowland rivers of New South Wales, Australia, NISORS Conference, Albury

Lorraine Hardwick, James Maguire, Mark Foreman, Paul Frazier (2002) Providing Water to Murrumbidgee Billabongs - Maximising Ecological Value, Australian Stream Management Conference, Brisbane QLD.

Lorraine Hardwick, James Maguire, Bruce Chessman (2002) Handling Variability in Inundation and Invertebrate Response in Murrumbidgee Floodplain Billabongs, ASL (Australian Society for Limnology) Margaret River, WA.

Patrick Driver, Bruce Chessman, Peter Lloyd-Jones and Greg Raisin (2002) Responses of macroinvertebrates in Lachlan River floodplain wetlands to environmental flows, ASL (Australian Society for Limnology) Margaret River, WA.

Ivor Growns, Peter Gehrke, Bruce Chessman (2002) Relationships between antecedent daily discharges and fish recruitment in the Murray-Darling River, Australia, ASL (Australian Society for Limnology) Margaret River, WA.

Some other publications supported by IMEF

Ryder D.S., Watts R.J., Nye E., & Burns, A. (2006). Can flow velocity regulate epixylic biofilm structure in a regulated floodplain river? Marine and Freshwater Research 57, 29-36 (in partnerships with the Australian Research Council and the Department of Environment and Conservation).

Ryder, Watts, Nye and Robertson (2005). Developing indicators of river health: responses of biofilms and their consumers to river flow management - Final report to ARC and Industry Partners, 37pp.

Frazier, P. (2004). Effects of river regulation on the inundation regime of floodplain wetlands, Murrumbidgee River, Australia. A thesis submitted to Charles Sturt University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. March 2004 (part-funded by IMEF)

Issah, A. (2000). Wetlands of the Lachlan Catchment: Nutrient and Sediment Analysis. Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science (Honours). Department of Geography, University of Sydney (part-funded by IMEF).