Conservation
The vital importance of conserving freshwater ecosystems is acknowledged globally, with the central relevance of environmental flow regimes in running waters emphasised as a core driver of much of their functioning and sustainability of their biota.
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Insect Conservation and Australia’s Inland Waters
Insect Conservation and Australia’s Inland Waters
Tim R. New
Insect Conservation and Australia’s Inland Waters
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Tim R. New Department of Ecology Environment and Evolution La Trobe University Bundoora, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-57007-1 ISBN 978-3-030-57008-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57008-8
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Preface
Freshwater is a critical resource in Australia. The country’s reputation as ‘a land of droughts and flooding rains’ encapsulates the uncertainty of water supply and the unpredictable outcomes for agricultural production and human welfare that so largely depend on more reliable rainfall and water availability, and that can be affected dramatically by either excess or lack. When I first drafted this preface in early autumn 2019, people in large areas of Queensland were attempting to recover from devastating floods in which vast numbers of cattle and sheep perished, and numerous livelihoods rendered uncertain, large amounts of water were moving inland toward the normally dry Lake Eyre in the centre of the continent, stretches of the Darling River in the southeast were dry, and Melbourne’s normally adequate water reserves were down to about half their possible capacity. Six months later, the ramifications of ‘water shortage’ remained at the forefront of political and economic concern (and increasingly linked to concerns over climate change), with no prospect of resolution in sight and continuing calls for ever-increasing government recompense to primary producers and affected rural communities, who faced a continuing major crisis as lack
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