Floodplain development & vegetation health on the Macquarie River floodplain

"The Macquarie River in the Murray-Darling Basin has a large complex floodplain
that includes the Macquarie Marshes, a wetland of international importance under the
Ramsar Convention. The Macquarie Marshes supports some of the larger waterbird
breeding colonies in Australia and complexes of different floodplain communities,
including river redgum Eucalyptus camaldulensis. Environmental flows to this
wetland are affected by dams and abstractions upstream but also potentially by
earthworks on the floodplain. We investigated the distribution and type of
earthworks on the floodplain of the Macquarie River, between the towns of Warren
and Carinda, using satellite imagery (SPOT 2005)".