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Contents:
Theme: Salt, Nutrient, Sediment and Interactions.
Salt as a contaminant
- Salinity thresholds in freshwater biodiversity.
- Understanding thresholds in the transition from saline to hypersaline aquatic ecosystems.
- Salinity in the rivers of the Lake Eyre Basin.
- Does salinity reduce the tolerance of aquatic plants to fluctuating water regimes?
- Land use impacts and in-stream salinity.
- Managing leaching efficiency for river health .
Nutrient as a contaminant
- Managing diffuse nitrogen loads: in-stream and riparian zone nitrate removal.
- Managing algal blooms in Australia.
- Making better fertiliser decisions.
Sediment as a contaminant
- Identifying sources of sediment in river basins to help develop revegetation priorities.
- Budgeting and monitoring for sediment and nutrients at the catchment scale.
- Rapt in rivers.
Interactions between contaminants
- Managing regulated flows and contaminant cycles in floodplain rivers.
- Risk-based approaches for managing contaminants in catchments.
- The role of modelling in catchment management.
- Improving water quality from grain farming catchments.
- Chemicals and sexual chemistry in Australian riverine environments.
- There's movement on the Darling.
- The impacts of pesticide mixtures on aquatic ecosystems.
- Riversymposium.
From the Editor
Where Land and Water Meet
Welcome to another edition of RipRap. Following the end of the National
Riparian Lands R&D Program we were unsure as to whether RipRap would
continue, and this explains the delay between editions. However, after such
positive feedback, we have decided to keep publishing RipRap when the
opportunity and funds allow. This means that editions may not be quite as
often, so check our website to find out what is new in between times. It also
means we are interested in working with organisations to fund the production
of RipRap, so if you would like to sponsor an edition that links to work
Land & Water Australia is doing, we would be delighted to hear from you.
This edition is focusing on findings from the National River Contaminants
Program, a joint Murray-Darling Basin Commission and Land & Water
Australia research initiative. We have a beautiful new book that covers the
main findings from now-completed Program, with RipRap giving you a
preview of the contents. Thank you very much for being a RipRap reader, it is
a pleasure producing something to assist, inspire and keep people connected
who are working in river and riparian management.
