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The Barkindji Biosphere Reserve provides outstanding opportunities
to undertake long-term manipulative and survey research on natural habitats,
and the interface between these habitats and urban/agricultural land
use. Professor Ary Hoffmann (Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation
Research, La Trobe University) has developed the following outline for
the Barkindji Biosphere research program.
Major problems facing the area are the loss of biodiversity due to
grazing and clearing for agricultural purposes, and stress arising from
other forms of human impact, including the increasing problem of salinity.
Also of significance are the ways in which these problems may affect
the general sustainability of agricultural, tourism and urban activities
in the area. Particular problems may affect various vegetation types
to different extents, but they are prevalent across the whole area,
from the flood plains of the Murray to the mallee and chenopod shrublands
of the interior.
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