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Alice Best: Impact of land use change on seasonal water yield
Supervisors
- Dr Lu Zhang CSIRO Land and Water
- Prof Tom McMahon University of Melbourne
- Dr Andrew Western University of Melbourne
CRCCH project links
Personal background
- BSc and B Eng, University of Melbourne
- Water Resources Engineer, Snowy Mountains Engineering
Corporation
- CRCCH PhD, University of Melbourne, Vic
Anticipated research outcomes/products
- Tool for predicting the impacts of changing land use on
seasonal water yield (tested on CRCCH Focus Catchment) for
use by land and water managers in southern Australia, contemplating
major increase in plantation forestry
- Identification of implications for water allocation and
downstream water users
“The massive land use change in Australia associated with
agricultural development has caused an imbalance in catchment
hydrological regime over large areas, resulting sometimes in
land and water salinisation. Plantation forestry is a major
land use change expected for southern Australia. According to
Forest Plantations 2020 Vision, the area of tree plantations
will treble by the year 2020. The economic benefits that could
accrue from this development are obvious in terms of timber
production, salinity control, carbon credits, riparian zones
and biodiversity. However, the impacts of land use change on
water yield could have implications for stream salinity and
for water allocation and my research aims to identify these.”
Contact
alice.best@csiro.au |
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