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

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dc.contributor.authorMills, Ken_AU
dc.contributor.authorGell, PAen_AU
dc.contributor.authorGergis, Jen_AU
dc.contributor.authorBaker, PJen_AU
dc.contributor.authorFinlayson, CMen_AU
dc.contributor.authorHesse, PPen_AU
dc.contributor.authorJones, Ren_AU
dc.contributor.authorKershaw, Pen_AU
dc.contributor.authorPearson, Sen_AU
dc.contributor.authorTreble, PCen_AU
dc.contributor.authorBarr, Cen_AU
dc.contributor.authorBrookhouse, MTen_AU
dc.contributor.authorDrysdale, RNen_AU
dc.contributor.authorMcDonald, Jen_AU
dc.contributor.authorHaberle, SGen_AU
dc.contributor.authorReid, Men_AU
dc.contributor.authorThoms, Men_AU
dc.contributor.authorTibby, Jen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-26T02:27:47Zen_AU
dc.date.available2020-05-26T02:27:47Zen_AU
dc.date.issued2013-08-09en_AU
dc.date.statistics2020-05en_AU
dc.description.abstractThe 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 supplies to agricultural, domestic and environmental uses. This water-availability crisis has driven demand for improved knowledge of climate change trends, cycles of variability, the range of historical climates experienced by natural systems and the ecological health of the system relative to a past benchmark. A considerable volume of research on the past climates of southeastern Australia has been produced over recent decades, but much of this work has focused on longer geological time-scales, and is of low temporal resolution. Less evidence has been generated of recent climate change at the level of resolution that accesses the cycles of change relevant to management. Intra-decadal and near-annual resolution (high-resolution) records do exist and provide evidence of climate change and variability, and of human impact on systems, relevant to natural-resource management. There exist now many research groups using a range of proxy indicators of climate that will rapidly escalate our knowledge of management-relevant, climate change and variability. This review assembles available climate and catchment change research within, and in the vicinity of, the MDB and portrays the research activities that are responding to the knowledge need. It also discusses how paleoclimate scientists may better integrate their pursuits into the resource-management realm to enhance the utility of the science, the effectiveness of the management measures and the outcomes for the end users. © 2020 Informa UK Limiteden_AU
dc.identifier.citationMills, K., Gell, P., Gergis, J., Baker, P. J., Finlayson, C. M., Hesse, P. P., Jones, R., Kershaw, P., Pearson, S., Treble, P. C., Barr, C., Brookhouse, M., Drysdale, R., McDonald, J., Haberle, S., Reid, M., Thoms, M., & Tibby, J. (2013). Paleoclimate studies and natural-resource management in the Murray-Darling Basin II: unravelling human impacts and climate variability. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(5), 561-571, DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2013.823463en_AU
dc.identifier.govdoc9562en_AU
dc.identifier.issn1440-0952en_AU
dc.identifier.issue5en_AU
dc.identifier.journaltitleAustralian Journal of Earth Sciencesen_AU
dc.identifier.pagination561-571en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2013.823463en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/9485en_AU
dc.identifier.volume60en_AU
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupen_AU
dc.subjectAustraliaen_AU
dc.subjectClimatic changeen_AU
dc.subjectWetlandsen_AU
dc.subjectTree ringsen_AU
dc.subjectWater resourcesen_AU
dc.subjectFloodsen_AU
dc.subjectDroughtsen_AU
dc.titlePaleoclimate studies and natural-resource management in the Murray-Darling Basin II: unravelling human impacts and climate variabilityen_AU
dc.typeJournal Articleen_AU
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