Managing the Murray’s water to combat invasive species

An invasive exotic species, Sagittaria platyphylla, dominating a wetland in Cobrawonga, Victoria (2008)

About this time last year, I wrote an article for H2O Thinking, a water management magazine published by eWater (until recently the eWater CRC). While the turnaround time is nothing to envy, the piece found its place on the web earlier this week.

In the article, I focus on two questions that anyone* who has spent any time along a river will surely have asked:

Why are river banks, floodplains and floodplain wetlands so susceptible to alien species invasion?

And what can we do about it?

Well, I’m not going to give the game away, but lets just say that the words “flow” and “regulation” do make an appearance. Click here for more scintillating reading (?!).

A very nice wetland near Cobram, Victoria (2007)

*OK, anyone like me would surely have asked…

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