期刊
MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH
卷 73, 期 10, 页码 1212-1224出版社
CSIRO PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1071/MF20338
关键词
environmental water; ecological function; restoration; riparian vegetation; vegetation condition
资金
- Australian Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (CEWO) via the Environmental Water Knowledge Research (EWKR) project
- Australian Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (CEWO) via LongTerm Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) program
This passage discusses the challenges of evaluating wetland vegetation responses to flow regimes and proposes four principles to guide adaptive management. These principles include aligning management objectives, selecting indicators across scales, understanding temporal flow dynamics, and considering non-flow variables. Key knowledge needs to support these principles are highlighted, emphasizing the urgency of improving understanding of ecological, sociocultural, and economic values of wetland vegetation.
Evaluating wetland vegetation responses to flow regimes is challenging because of the inherently complex, variable and dynamic nature of wetland vegetation in space and time. We propose four principles to guide the development of management objectives and evaluation approaches to support adaptive management of wetland vegetation in flow-managed systems. First, we assert a need for more explicit, direct and defensible alignment of management objectives, targets and indicators to reflect broader ecological, sociocultural and economic values, and the underlying ecosystem functions that support them. Second, we propose a framework for indicator selection across multiple spatiotemporal scales and levels of ecological organisation, from individuals to landscape mosaics (vegscapes). Third, we emphasise the need to evaluate vegetation condition and responses to environmental flows in relation to a more nuanced understanding of temporal flow dynamics. Finally, we discuss the importance of considering the effects of non-flow variables that can modify vegetation responses to environmental flows. We highlight key knowledge needs required to support the implementation of these principles, particularly the urgency of improving our understanding of ecological, sociocultural and economic values of wetland vegetation and the attributes and functions that support these values.
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