Cabbage Tree Basin, Australia
Main Contributors:
Johanna Yletyinen
Other Contributors:
Summary
Cabbage Tree Basin is located within a national park where pollution in to the basin is minimal. Brief periods of anoxia may occur in the bottom water after floods or with thermal stratification. Hypoxia is periodic or seasonal and has caused mortality of fauna (annual recolonization).
Type of regime shift
Ecosystem type
- Marine & coastal
Land uses
- Conservation
Spatial scale of the case study
- Local/landscape (e.g. lake, catchment, community)
Continent or Ocean
- Australia & New Zealand
Region
- East Australia
Countries
- Australia
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Key References
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Rainer SF, Fitzhardinge RC. 1981. Benthic Communities in an Estuary with Periodic Deoxygenation. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 32, 227-243
Citation
Johanna Yletyinen.
Cabbage Tree Basin, Australia.
In: Regime Shifts Database, www.regimeshifts.org.
Last revised 2011-12-19 15:47:20 GMT.
