Barmah Millewa vegetation condition monitoring 2016-17
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| Habitat type | multiple |
| Keyword | vegetation monitoring |
| Program | The Living Murray |
| System component | vegetation |
| Theme | Environmental Water |
| Objective | Continuation of monitoring into 2016-17 now represents a span of eleven years where Barmah Forest study sites have been monitored in ten of those years and Millewa Forest study sites monitored for nine of those years. As such, the project has achieved the Barmah-Millewa Forest Condition Monitoring program stated aims of: a) Providing a suitable wetland understorey monitoring program within Barmah-Millewa Forest (initially following monitoring recommendations by TLM 2005 and McCarthy et al. 2006); b) Appraising understorey vegetation response to flooding (and other variables, such as reduced grazing pressure) by measuring species diversity, cover and flowering ability within existing sentinel transect sites in both Barmah and Millewa forests; c) Complimenting broader monitoring programs (e.g., red gum inventories, hydrographic recorder correlations, waterbird monitoring and hydrodynamic modelling) by providing data on understorey vegetation and other monitored attributes such as site water depths; d) Providing enhanced quantitative evidence of species variation on Moira Grass plains (especially change since first monitored 27 years ago); e) Providing quantitative and qualitative information to support recommendations for water management activities; f) Monitoring post-fire recovery of a typical wetland system by continued monitoring of transects recently established at two burnt sites; g) Permitting accurate reporting of understorey wetland health (and of other monitored variables) in the Barmah-Millewa Forest Water Management Annual Report and associated on-reporting for a variety of organisations and researchers. |
| Location | Barmah Millewa |
| Status | Completed |
| Start | 2016 |
| Finish | 2017 |
| Project Lead | Paula Ward (consultant) |
| Funder | CMA - Goulburn Broken, MDBA |
| Outputs | report |
| Publication Outputs | report |
