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ECOLOGY, THREATS AND MANAGEMENT OPTIONS FOR SMALL ESTUARIES AND ICOLLS APPENDIX A: THE INTERMITTENTLY CLOSED AND OPEN LAKES (ICOLLS) SPECIAL SESSION AT THE ‘ESTUARIES AND CHANGE’ CONFERENCE Background In addition to the ecological work conducted as part of this project, we also sought to raise awareness and appreciation of ICOLLs among stakeholder and research scientist groups. To this end, Dr Wade Hadwen and Prof Angela Arthington coordinated an ICOLLs Special Session at the “Estuaries and Change” conference in Ballina, New South Wales. This was an international conference, co-sponsored by the Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Association (ECSA) and Estuarine Research Federation (ERF), which are the two largest scientific organisations that focus on estuarine research and management. The ICOLLs special session was first advertised on the conference website in the form of an abstract inviting participants to submit their abstracts for presentations into this session. The abstract for the special session read as follows: Special Session Abstract 46 Intermittently Closed and Open Lakes and Lagoons (ICOLLs) Session Convener: Dr Wade Hadwen w.hadwen@griffith.edu.au Griffith University, Australia Despite their abundance in many coastal regions, very little is known of the ecology, hydrology and geomorphology of ICOLLs. This special session aims to raise the profile of ICOLLs and estuaries and facilitate discussion and recognition of the role they play in maintaining key coastal processes. Particular emphasis is to be placed on eutrophication, commercial fishing, the forced opening and closing of ICOLL connections to the sea, and the effects that human activities may have on the ecology of these ecosystems. The response to this invitation to participate in the ICOLLs special session was extremely positive. A total of 38 abstracts were submitted via this special session, making it the most popular of all sessions offered at the conference. Unfortunately, timetabling logistics allowed only 22 of the initial submitted abstracts to be accepted for the ICOLLs special session. Nevertheless, the ICOLLs special session ran over three days, as detailed in the table below. Significantly, there was a very wide range of issues covered across the presentations in the special session. The topics ranged from studies of water quality and artificial opening events to assessments of nutrient loads, fauna and flora and ecosystem responses to perturbations in these unique coastal environments. Furthermore, the geographical distribution and relevance of the ICOLLs session was evident given that contributions came from within Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia), India and Sri Lanka, South Africa and Namibia and the southern part of North America (see table below). All abstracts submitted in the ICOLLs special session of the “Estuaries and Change” conference are presented in Appendix C.
ECOLOGY, THREATS AND MANAGEMENT OPTIONS FOR SMALL ESTUARIES AND ICOLLS Author and Title details of presentations from the ICOLLS Special Session chaired by Dr Wade Hadwen at the “Estuaries and Change” Conference in Ballina, New South Wales, June 2004. Presenting author annotated in bold. Date and Time 3.40pm Author(s) Title Angela Arthington and Wade Hadwen 4.00pm Philip Haines 4.20pm 4.40pm Emma Gale, Charitha Pattiaratchi, Roshanka Ranasinghe Enrique Reyes and Christopher A. Spring 9.40am Piet Huizinga, Lara van Niekerk 10.00am 10.20am 11.10am 11.30am 11.50am 9.10am 9.30am 9.50am 10.10am 11.00am Lara van Niekerk, S Taljaard, and Piet Huizinga Philip Haines Paul Close and Andrew Maughan David Rissik and Iain Suthers Malcolm Robb Tuesday 22 June 2004 <strong>Sustainable</strong> Management of ICOLLS: Knowledge Gaps and Threatening Processes Important Water Quality Processes in New South Wales Coastal Lagoons A comparison of the Hydrodynamics of an Opening Event in two Coastal Lagoons Modeling Watershed Change in Coastal Louisiana Wednesday 22 June 2004 Physical Processes of Intermittently Closed and Open Estuaries in South Africa An assessment of the impacts of anthropogenic influences on the dynamics of the temporarily open and closed Orange River Estuary Morphology of coastal lagoons and its impact on dominant environmental processes Ecological considerations for manually reconnecting ICOLLS and the ocean in southwestern Australia The importance of volume correction when investigating plankton dynamics in intermittently opening and closing lagoons Wilson Inlet – A case example of seasonally closed estuaries in the SW of WA Thursday 24 June 2004 Linda Grant Estuary Entrance Management Decision Support System Melissa Thompson Hamish Malcolm, Rus Glover, Rob Williams, Brett Louden, Alan Genders, Lachie Whetham Paul Boon Janine Adams Where estuary science meets estuary management: the role of scientific information in estuary management in southeastern Australia Estuarine fishes within ICOLLS and Barrier Lagoons in the Solitary Islands Marine Park, northern New South Wales, Australia Landscape-scale manipulations of water regime to rehabilitate coastal paperbark (Melaleuca ericifolia) swamps The response of macrophytes to changes in physicochemical conditions in temporarily open/closed estuaries 47
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