The Lower Lakes, South Australia.

CLLAMMecology: towards a system understanding of the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth

Cluster publications

Final report

Brookes JD, Lamontagne S, Aldridge KT, Benger S, Bissett A, Bucater L, Cheshire AC, Cook PLM, Deegan BM, Dittmann S, Fairweather PG, Fernandes MB, Ford PW, Geddes MC, Gillanders BM, Grigg NJ, Haese RR, Krull E, Langley RA, Lester RE, Loo M, Munro AR, Noell CJ, Nayar S, Paton DC, Revill AT, Rogers DJ, Rolston A, Sharma SK, Short DA, Tanner JE, Webster IT, Wellman NR, Ye Q. 2009. An Ecosystem Assessment Framework to Guide Management of the Coorong. Final Report of the CLLAMMecology Research Cluster. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, Canberra [PDF 6.3 MB]

Other reports

• General  
• Key species responses  
• Sustaining food webs 
• Dynamic habitat mapping  
• CLLAMM futures 
• Workshop proceedings

General

Lamontagne S, McEwan K, Webster I, Ford P, Leaney F, Walker G. 2004. Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth. Knowledge gaps and knowledge needs for delivering better ecological outcomes. Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. CSIRO Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Webster IT. 2005. Hydrodynamics of the Coorong and Murray mouth. Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Webster IT. 2007. Hydrodynamic modelling of the Coorong. Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Ford PW. 2007. Biogeochemistry of the Coorong. Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Dyack B, Rolfe J, Harvey J, O’Connell D, Abel N. 2007. Valuing recreation in the Murray: An assessment of the non-market recreational values at Barmah Forest and the Coorong. Water for a Healthy Country Flagship. CSIRO Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Haese RR, Murray EJ and Wallace L. 2009. Nutrient sources, water quality and biogeochemical processes in the Coorong, South Australia. [external link, PDF 1.29MB] Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Key Species Responses

Gillanders BM and Munro AR. 2009. Relations between water chemistry, otolith chemistry and salinity of a hypersaline system: implications for determining past environmental history of fish. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, 33pp [PDF 386 kB]

Rogers DJ and Paton DC. 2009. Changes in the distribution and abundance of Ruppia tuberosa in the Coorong. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, Canberra [PDF 652 kB]

Rogers DJ and Paton DC. 2009. Spatiotemporal variation in the waterbird communities of the Coorong. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, Canberra, 57 pp [PDF 1.1 MB]

Rolston A and Dittmann S. The Distribution and Abundance of Macrobenthic Invertebrates in the Murray Mouth and Coorong Lagoons 2006 to 2008. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, Canberra [PDF 1.1 MB]

Sustaining Food Webs

Aldridge KT, Deegan BM, Lamontagne S, Bissett A and Brookes JD. 2009. Spatial and temporal changes in water quality and sediment character in Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert during a period of rapid water level drawdown. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, Canberra. [PDF 3.9 MB]

Lamontagne S, Geddes MC, Fernandes M, Krull E. 2007. Analysis of fish diet from Murray Estuary using C, N & S stable isotopes: a preliminary assessment.Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. CSIRO Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Cook PLM, Aldridge KT, Lamontagne S, Brookes JD. 2008. Element and nutrient mass-balances in a large semi-arid riverine lake system (the Lower Lakes, South Australia). Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. CSIRO Canberra, ACT, Australia. [PDF 1.1 MB]

Fernandes Milena and Tanner Jason. 2009. Hypersalinity and phosphorus availability: the role of mineral precipitation in the Coorong lagoons of South Australia. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship [external link, PDF 296 kB]

Grigg N, Robson B, Webster I and Ford P, 2009 Nutrient Budgets and Biogeochemical Modelling of theCoorong. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship [external link, PDF 7.7 MB]

Krull E, Lamontagne S, Haynes D, Broos K, McKirdy D, McGowan J, Gell P, Wakelin S. 2008. Changes in organic matter chemistry in the Coorong Lagoons over space and time. Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. CSIRO Canberra, ACT, Australia. [PDF 1.7 MB]

Nayar S and Loo MGK. 2009. Phytoplankton and phytobenthic productivity along a salinity gradient in the Coorong and Murray Mouth. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship and South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences), Adelaide. 19pp. [PDF 1.7 MB]

Revill AT. et al. 2009. Sources of Organic Matter In the Coorong. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship [PDF 767 kB]

Dynamic Habitat Mapping

Sharma Sunil K , Benger Simon N, Fernandes Milena B, Webster Ian T and Tanner Jason E. CLLAMM Dynamic Habitat: Habitat mapping and dynamic modelling of species distributions. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, Canberra [external link, PDF 5.9 MB]

CLLAMM Futures

Lester RE, Webster IT, Fairweather PG & Langley RA. 2009. Predicting the future ecological condition of the Coorong. Effects of management and climate change scenarios. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, 104 pp [PDF 3.4 MB]

Langley RA, Lester RE, Fairweather PG and Webster IT. 2009. Predicting the future ecological condition of the Coorong. Supplementary output from scenario modelling. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship [PDF 3.4 MB]

Lester R, Fairweather P. 2008. Review of Modelling Alternatives for CLLAMM Futures. Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. CSIRO Canberra, ACT, Australia. [PDF 1.2 MB]

Lester RE and Fairweather PG. 2009. Ecosystem states of the Coorong: an ecosystem response model. Method development and sensitivity analyses. CSIRO: Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, 126 pp [PDF 2.7 MB]

Workshop proceedings

Lester R, Fairweather P. 2007. CLLAMM Futures workshop 1 proceedings 2006. Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. CSIRO Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Lester R, Fairweather P. 2008. CLLAMM Futures workshop 2 proceedings 2008. Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship. CSIRO Canberra, ACT, Australia.