The Lower Lakes and Coorong system lies at the terminus of the River Murray and are an icon of the Australian landscape. This system is an incredibly important habitat for waterbirds, supporting more than 1% of the global populations of nine waterbird taxa and hosting up to 90% of waterbirds in the ...

Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel 1923) is a reef-building serpulid polychaete that is found in warm and temperate estuaries across the globe. This ecosystem engineer causes ecological and socio-economic impacts in invaded systems through efficient filtering of the water column and the formation of la...

In 2007, high rates of water extraction combined with a regional drought stopped freshwater discharge to the Coorong, a ∼120 km estuarine and coastal lagoon system at the outlet of the River Murray (Australia). The sources of organic matter sustaining the Coorong food web in the absence of river-bor...