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Smoke on the water: can riverine fish populations recover following a catastrophic fire-related sediment slug?

In early 2003 a series of large, wildfire-related sediment slugs occurred in streams in the south-eastern Australian alpine region. Back-pack and boat-mounted electrofishing were used to measure changes in riverine fish fauna after one particularly large sediment slug which…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, disturbance, fire management, fishes, mortality, O - oxygen, population density, post fire recovery, rivers, sedimentation, streams, translocation, Victoria, water, water quality, watershed management, wildfires, Australia, blackfish, dissolved oxygen, Ovens River, sediment