Catchment management for dryland salinity control: Model analysis for the Liverpool plains in New South Wales

1998 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romy Greiner
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Model Analysis ◽  
Control Model ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Dryland Salinity ◽  
Salinity Control ◽  
South Wales

Salt source for dryland salinity - evidence from an upland catchment on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales

Soil Research ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. Acworth ◽  
J. Jankowski
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Dust Storms ◽  
Dryland Salinity ◽  
Heterogeneous Distribution ◽  
Small Catchment ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Bedrock Weathering ◽  
Salt Distribution ◽  
The Last Glacial

A detailed study involving drilling, geophysics, hydrogeochemistry, and groundwater monitoring over a 10-year period has been carried out at a small catchment south-east of Yass on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales to investigate the source of salt causing dryland salinity. The catchment is within 2 km of the top of a regional groundwater and surface water divide and remains substantially tree covered. The investigations have found a highly heterogeneous distribution of salt, most of which is associated with swelling clay. Dispersion of this clay causes the surface features commonly associated with dryland salinity. There is no hydrogeochemical evidence to suggest evaporative or transpirative concentration of salt in the groundwater. The short flow path from the top of the catchment cannot provide a significant source of salt from bedrock weathering. An alternative model of salt accumulation is proposed with the salt imported into the catchment with silt during dust storms in the arid and windy conditions during the last glacial. The management implications of this model of salt distribution and the associated dryland salinity development are discussed.

scholarly journals Diplodactylus tessellatus Gunther, 1875 (Squamata: Diplodactylidae), Parasuta dwyeri Greer, 2006 and Suta suta Peters, 1863 (Squamata: Elapidae): distribution extension in the Murray catchment of New South Wales, South-eastern Australia

Check List ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian R. Michael ◽  
David B. Lindenmayer
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Management Area ◽  
South Eastern Australia

We present new records of the Diplodactylid lizard Diplodactylus tessellatus and Elapid snakes Parasuta dwyeri and Suta suta for the Murray Catchment Management Area of New South Wales, south-eastern Australia. These records extend the distribution of these species by approximately 55 km and 45 km south-eastward (D. tessellatus and S. suta respectively) and 74 km north-westward (P. dwyeri). 

Overview of Factors Leading to Dryland Salinity and its Potential Hazard In New South Wales, Australia

1997 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Bradd ◽  
William A. Milne-Home ◽  
George Gates
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Potential Hazard ◽  
Dryland Salinity ◽  
South Wales

scholarly journals Reptilia, Murray catchment, New South Wales, south-eastern Australia

Check List ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian R. Michael ◽  
David B. Lindenmayer ◽  
Mason Crane ◽  
Christopher MacGregor ◽  
Rebecca Montague-Drake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Habitat Associations ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
South Eastern Australia

Two large-scale, long-term biodiversity monitoring programs examining vertebrate responses to habitat fragmentation and landscape change in agricultural landscapes are taking place in the Murray Catchment Management Area of New South Wales, south-eastern Australia. Field surveys involve counting reptiles under a range of management conditions and across a broad range of vegetation types in two bioregions, the South-western Slopes of New South Wales and the Riverina. We list reptiles recorded during surveys conducted between 2002 and 2009. We include additional species recorded between 1997 and 2009 from a conservation reserve. Thirty-nine species from nine families were recorded. The list will be useful for workers interested in reptile zoogeographical distributions and habitat associations as well as those interested in the biodiversity value of remnant vegetation and tree plantings in fragmented agricultural landscapes.

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