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24.01.2022 wonderful world of river red gums

23.01.2022 Flora, Flow & Floodplains is excited to be a sponsor of the Fringe Mildura "Summer Thrills" Laneway festival. Come join us as we uncover our local hidden gems, reclaim our urban spaces and celebrate the diversity of our river community. ... Featuring live music, food & drinks, market stalls and local art. Tickets $10 (kids under 12 are free) Please join us!!

22.01.2022 when the rivers run dry...

22.01.2022 Significance of restoring forests and woodlands for local to regional scale climate, biodiversity and carbon storage benefits.

18.01.2022 Intriguing results and hidden gems from our seedbank germination trial! This trial is such a good example of how collaboration from experts far and wide can really help us to understand the similarities and differences between our floodplain regions.

16.01.2022 'what doesnt kill you makes you stronger' Interesting results from the EWKR woody seedling establishment trial

13.01.2022 Current project: Improving the knowledge base for prioritising environmental watering of wetland and floodplain trees The primary method for assessing floodplain tree condition uses visual observations of canopy crown extent and density. While this approach has proven to be very useful, it does not provide a measure of soil moisture availability - the critical driver of tree condition. Consequently, this complicates decisions around water delivery, as some sites may have suf...ficient soil moisture, while others may be close to depleting soil moisture reserves. This multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder project use high frequency measurements of tree physiology and soil conditions to address key knowledge gaps in the link between soil water availability, tree physiology and visual tree condition. Several sites at Chowilla-Calperum Floodplain were assessed for tree condition, soil properties, and groundwater conditions. Project outputs will help managers to reliably identify the need to deliver water and provide another approach for confidently determining the need to undertake management actions in years when results from tree visual condition surveys are not conclusive. Please contact us for more information.

11.01.2022 Interesting article about the Rio Grande

09.01.2022 Current project: Application of floodplain eucalypt condition scores to support environmental watering decisions. Throughout the MurrayDarling Basin (MDB), floodplain eucalypt forests and woodlands are showing signs of stress because of interacting threats associated with land use practices, consumptive water use, flow regulation and climate change. Marked declines in key species, such as River Red Gums and Black Box triggered several management programs specifically target...ed to maintain sustainable communities via the delivery of environmental water. To assist these programs, a standardised approach was developed to visually assess the condition of floodplain eucalypts. While this method provides extensive guidance on how to collect field data, there is minimal guidance on how to convert field data into a consistent, readily interpretable index of tree condition. This makes it difficult for environmental water holders and managers to make informed, repeatable decisions on how to prioritise water allocations. Six approaches for converting field data into tree crown condition scores were reviewed. The majority of the approaches examined tended to bin the field data into too few condition categories, which led to a substantial loss of information and obscured important context for understanding long term trajectories in tree condition or for quantifying short term responses. As a result of this project, we provide recommendations for two standardised approaches for analysing and reporting data that do not require complex statistical analysis yet meets the needs of floodplain mangers as a reporting, communication and decision support tool. Please contact us for more information.

07.01.2022 Protecting wetlands through wet and dry

05.01.2022 How can we maximise our environmental outcomes when the volume and security of available water becomes increasingly uncertain for everyone?

01.01.2022 Research highlights that Pike Floodplain (Renmark, South Australia) is one of the oldest Indigenous sites (29,000 years) along the River Murray.