Chapter 2
2 Information base for the
Barmah-Millewa Forest
2.1
Introduction
2.2
Value and condition of Barmah-Millewa
Forest
2.2.1
Conservation significance
2.2.2
Hydrology and geomorphology of
Barmah-Millewa Forest
2.2.3
Floodplain vegetation distribution and
hydrological regime
2.2.4
Health of floodplain
vegetation
2.2.5
Colonially nesting waterbirds
2.2.6
Fish in the Barmah-Millewa Forest and
adjacent river reaches
2.2.7
Macroinvertebrates in the Barmah-Millewa
Forest and adjacent river reaches
2.2.8
In-stream habitat in river reaches
containing to the Barmah-Millewa Forest
2.2.9
River channel and floodplain
geomorphology
2.2.10
Water quality in river reaches adjacent
to the Barmah-Millewa Forest
2.2.11
Human use values
2.2.12
Summary
of knowledge of the condition of Barmah-Millewa Forest
2.3
Factors impacting in environmental
values
2.3.1
Hydrology-degree of change to flows due
to river regulation
2.3.2
Factors acting in combination to affect
the health of the forest
2.4
Opportunities to meet ecological
objectives for this site
2.4.1
Introduction
2.4.2
Increasing the frequency and duration of
medium-sized spring flooding
2.4.3
Reducing the effects of unseasonal `rain
rejection' flooding in summer and autumn by structural and
operational works
2.4.4
Habitat improvement and enhanced Murray
cod survival
2.4.5
Links between ecological objectives and
management opportunities
2.5
Observed environmental response to use
of the Barmah-Millewa EWA