open, brackish hydrology, and extreme versus permanent climate events establishment of fresh, scoured increasing due to multiple versus climate change secondary sandy (e.g. pressures versus muddy poor/degraded (weeds, water substrate. catchment quality decline) condition, eutrophication, Sensitivity to such chronic weed stressful periods infestations, is often mitigated water resource by climatic development / conditions, altered flow impacts regimes, hot fire exacerbated regimes, high during more sediment and extreme weather other and being contaminant reduced by habitat loads and flow or resetting events reach condition (e.g. flushing flood based events, extended connectivity base flows) under impacts). better weather conditions. Extreme weather events droughts/floods that significantly impact catchment condition can also result in high sensitivity in catchments where exposure to pressure is otherwise medium.
open, brackish versus permanent fresh, scoured versus sandy versus muddy substrate. hydrology, establishment of multiple secondary pressures (weeds, water quality decline) Sensitivity to such stressful periods is often mitigated by climatic conditions, impacts exacerbated during more extreme weather and being reduced by habitat resetting events (e.g. flushing flood events, extended base flows) under better weather conditions. Extreme weather events droughts/floods that significantly impact catchment condition can also result in high sensitivity in catchments where exposure to pressure is otherwise medium. and extreme climate events increasing due to climate change (e.g. poor/degraded catchment condition, eutrophication, chronic weed infestations, water resource development / altered flow regimes, hot fire regimes, high sediment and other contaminant loads and flow or reach condition based connectivity impacts).
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