A new paradigm for catchment management: detection, forecasting and management of water catchments with multiple steady states

了解澳大利亚集水区对气候变化和变异性的反应和恢复变得越来越紧迫。我们的集水区是脆弱的，因为我们对它们如何从高或低降雨期恢复的理解存在根本性的差距。该项目将：a）推进水资源管理概念; B）建立工具，了解当受到干扰时，集水区如何以及何时可能转换到新的状态;以及c）确定如何最好地建立缓冲能力，以减少发生转换的机会。该项目将使澳大利亚的地下水和径流资源更加安全，并使澳大利亚的研究人员和水资源管理人员成为集水复原力新兴科学的世界领导者。

Understanding the response and recovery of Australia's water catchments to climatic change and variability is become increasingly urgent. Our catchments are vulnerable because there is a fundamental gap in our understanding of how they recover from high or low rainfall periods. This project will: a) advance water management concepts; b) build tools to understand how and when catchments might switch to new states when hit by a disturbance; and c) identify how best to build the buffering capacity to reduce the chance of a switch occurring. The project will make Australia's groundwater and streamflow resources more secure and make Australian researchers and water resource managers world leaders in the emerging science of catchment resilience.