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The Environmental Flows Decision Support System (EFDSS) has been developed to allow the communities and governments in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia to assess the environmental responses of the lowland floodplain rivers to proposed flow management scenarios. The system integrates a range of qualitative and quantitative ecological models which consider blooms of toxic blue-green algae as well as habitat conditions for fish, floodplain vegetation, and waterbird breeding. It has been designed to accommodate a wide range of users. In this paper the overall design concepts and components of the EFDSS are described.
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Booty, W.G. et al. (2000). Assessment of Ecological Responses to Environmental Flow Regimes using a Decision Support System Framework. In: Denzer, R., Swayne, D.A., Purvis, M., Schimak, G. (eds) Environmental Software Systems. ISESS 1999. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 39. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35503-0_23
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