Wetland conservation in the Murray–Darling Basin – is it going down the drain?

Katherine L. Buchanan

doi:10.1071/MUv109n2_ED

EDITORIAL

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Wetland conservation in the Murray–Darling Basin – is it going down the drain?

Katherine L. Buchanan

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School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Pigdons Road, Geelong, Vic. 3127, Australia. Email: kate.buchanan@deakin.edu.au

Emu 109(2) i-iv https://doi.org/10.1071/MUv109n2_ED
Published: 9 June 2009

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Lee Astheimer, Mike Cherry, Leo Joseph, Richard Kingsford, Camilla Myers, David Paton, Mike Weston and Pablo Yorio for their comments on an earlier draft of this editorial. Andrew Silcocks, Birds Australia supplied Fig. 1.

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