Protracted bar closure temporarily transforms an estuary into a salt lake

James R. Tweedley; Kurt N. Krispyn

doi:10.1071/PC24007

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Protracted bar closure temporarily transforms an estuary into a salt lake

James R. Tweedley

^A ^* and Kurt N. Krispyn ^A

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^A Environmental and Conservation Sciences and Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: j.tweedley@murdoch.edu.au

Handling Editor: Mike Calver

Pacific Conservation Biology 30, PC24007 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC24007

Submitted: 9 February 2024 Accepted: 14 August 2024 Published: 2 September 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Keywords: berm, climate change, ecosystem services, fish kill, hyperhaline, hypersalinity, low-inflow, normally-closed, temporarily open-closed estuary.

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