Paleoclimate studies and natural-resource management in the Murray-Darling Basin II: unravelling human impacts and climate variability

Date

2013

Authors

Mills, Keely
Gell, Peter A
Gergis, Joƫlle
Baker, P J
Finlayson, C.M
Hesse, Paul
Jones, Roger
Kershaw, Peter
Barr, Cameron
Treble, Pauline

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

The management of the water resources of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) has long been contested, and the effects of the recent Millennium drought and subsequent flooding events have generated acute contests over the appropriate allocation of water supplie

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Keywords: annual variation; anthropogenic effect; climate variation; decadal variation; natural resource; paleoclimate; speleothem; tree ring; water availability; water management; water resource; wetland; Australia; Murray-Darling Basin climate change; climate reconstruction; southeastern Australia; speleothems; tree rings; water resources; wetlands

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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

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Journal article

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2037-12-31