Preserving our rivers: environmental water use in a changing climate

The time of emergence of climate-induced hydrologic change in Australian rivers

Andrew John, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne, Keirnan Fowler, Michael Stewardson, Murray Peel, J Angus Webb

2023-03-01

Monthly flow indicators can be used to infer daily stream flow behaviour across Australia

R Morden, A Horne, R Nathan, NR Bond, JD Olden

2023-02-01

Flow indicators based on daily flow data are commonly used to characterize the hydrologic regimes of rivers and to investigate lin..

Hydrological Shifts Threaten Water Resources

Keirnan Fowler, Murray Peel, Margarita Saft, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne, Robert Wilby, Connor McCutcheon, Tim Peterson

2022-08-01

Recent shifts in the hydrological behavior of natural watersheds suggest acute challenges for water planning under climate change...

Integrated framework for rapid climate stress testing on a monthly timestep

Keirnan Fowler, Natasha Ballis, Avril Horne, Andrew John, Rory Nathan, Murray Peel

2022-02-17

“Bottom-up” methods are increasingly used to assess the vulnerability of water systems to climate change. Central to these methods..

Nonstationary Runoff Responses Can Interact With Climate Change to Increase Severe Outcomes for Freshwater Ecology

Andrew John, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne, Keirnan Fowler, Michael Stewardson

2022-02-01

Climate change is projected to impact multiple components of the flow regime. However, changes in some ecologically important aspe..

Purposeful Stakeholder Engagement for Improved Environmental Flow Outcomes

Meghan L Mussehl, Avril C Horne, J Angus Webb, N LeRoy Poff

2022-01-25

Rivers are dynamic social-ecological systems that support societies and ecosystems in a multitude of ways, giving rise to a variet..

Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity

Robert Morden, Avril Horne, Nick R Bond, Rory Nathan, Julian D Olden

2022-01-11

Headwater streams are critical for freshwater ecosystems. Global and continental studies consistently show major dams as dominant ..

Robust Climate Change Adaptation for Environmental Flows in the Goulburn River, Australia

Andrew John, Avril Horne, Rory Nathan, Keirnan Fowler, J Angus Webb, Michael Stewardson

2021-12-06

Climate change presents severe risks for the implementation and success of environmental flows worldwide. Current environmental fl..

Exploring the role and decision-making behavior of irrigation water supply authorities in Australia

Lubna Meempatta, J Angus Webb, Louise A Keogh, Avril C Horne, Michael J Stewardson

2021-11-07

Water supply authorities (WSAs) can influence the behaviour of water users and are influential actors in water governance. Despite..

Disaggregated monthly hydrological models can outperform daily models in providing daily flow statistics and extrapolate well to a drying climate

Andrew John, Keirnan Fowler, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne, Michael Stewardson

2021-05-27

Daily timescale hydrological information is important for many purposes such as flood estimation, predicting the consequences of c..

Assessing the Impact of Irrigation Efficiency Projects on Return Flows in the South-Eastern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

Glen R Walker, Avril C Home, Quan J Wang, Rob Rendell

2021-05-01

Improving irrigation efficiency (IE) is an approach used globally to help meet competing demands for water and facilitate realloca..

Considering scale within optimization procedures for water management decisions: Balancing environmental flows and human needs

Diana Derepasko, Joseph HA Guillaume, Avril C Horne, Martin Volk

2021-03-02

A key issue in optimization model development is the selection of spatial and temporal scale representing the system. This study p..

Climate change and freshwater ecology: Hydrological and ecological methods of comparable complexity are needed to predict risk

Andrew John, Avril Horne, Rory Nathan, Michael Stewardson, J Angus Webb, Jun Wang, N LeRoy Poff

2020-11-18

Many freshwater ecosystems are in decline because of anthropogenic disturbance including climate change, yet our understanding of ..

How to incorporate climate change into modelling environmental water outcomes: a review

Andrew John, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne, Michael Stewardson, J Angus Webb

2020-06-01

Environmental water represents a key resource in managing freshwater ecosystems against pervasive threats. The impacts of climate ..

Modeling Flow-Ecology Responses in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Sustainable Riverine Management

Avril C Horne, Rory Nathan, N LeRoy Poff, Nick R Bond, J Angus Webb, Jun Wang, Andrew John

2019-10-01

Climate change will increase water stress in many regions placing greater pressures on rivers to meet human and ecological water n..

Assessing the degree of hydrologic stress due to climate change

RJ Nathan, TA McMahon, MC Peel, A Horne

2019-09-01

Hydrologists are commonly involved in impact, adaption and vulnerability assessments for climate change projections. This paper pr..

Reallocation through irrigation modernization: The ‘once-in-a-hundred-year’ opportunity of the North-South Pipeline, Australia

EL O'Donnell, DE Garrick, AC Horne

2019-04-01

© 2019 Elsevier B.V. There is growing international interest in securing water for cities by increasing the efficiency of irrigati..

Cry Me a River: Building Trust and Maintaining Legitimacy in Environmental Flows

EL O’Donnell, AC Horne, Lee Godden, B Head

2019-01-02

Water reforms in Australia over a decade ago have seen large-scale recovery of water for the environment. While the recovery progr..

Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Environmental Outcomes in the Context of Natural Climate Variability

Jun Wang, Rory Nathan, Avril Horne

2018-12-01

Climate change has emerged as a key threat to river ecosystems. This study presents a generic, conceptual framework for assessing ..

The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows (2018)

Angela H Arthington, Anik Bhaduri, Stuart E Bunn, Sue E Jackson, Rebecca E Tharme, Dave Tickner, Bill Young, Mike Acreman, Natalie Baker, Samantha Capon, Avril C Horne, Eloise Kendy, Michael E McClain, N Leroy Poff, Brian D Richter, Selina Ward

2018-07-02

A decade ago, scientists and practitioners working in environmental water management crystallized the progress and direction of en..

Environmental Water Efficiency: Maximizing Benefits and Minimizing Costs of Environmental Water Use and Management

Avril C Horne, Erin L O'Donnell, Adam J Loch, David C Adamson, Barry Hart, John Freebairn

2018-07-01

Environmental water management is a relatively new discipline, with concepts, management practice and institutional mechanisms tha..