1. The paper ‘Biodiversity values of remnant freshwater floodplain lagoons in agricultural catchments: evidence for fish of the Wet Tropics bioregion, northern Australia’, published in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems in 2015, has contributed in several ways to the integration of freshwater wetland science within new catchment management policies and practices for Great Barrier Reef (GBR) sustainability.
2. The Tully–Murray biodiversity study developed novel protocols to sample larval, juvenile, and adult fish life‐history stages in floodplain lagoons using a combination of boat‐based backpack electrofishing and fyke netting. In addition, hydrological and hydrodynamic models were applied in a completely new way to quantify the timing, extent, and duration of water connectivity across floodplain streams, cane drains, and wetlands. Combining the two novel approaches enabled an analysis of lagoon fish assemblage patterns in relation to environmental gradients, especially floodplain hydrology, connectivity patterns, and measures related to agricultural land use.
3. In demonstrating the importance of different levels of connectivity for different biodiversity outcomes in freshwater floodplain lagoons of the Tully–Murray catchment, the subject paper established that floodplain connectivity needs to be taken into consideration in wetland management practices.
4. The timing of the subject publication was fortuitous. It coincided with the preparation of the evidence‐based 2017 Scientific Consensus Statement on land‐based water quality impacts on the GBR. As one of the few freshwater wetland ecology publications for the catchments of the GBR at that time, this paper played an important role in demonstrating freshwater wetland values, fish conservation options, and management imperatives to sustain wetland ecological health and services in GBR catchments.
5. By advancing the understanding of factors driving biodiversity patterns, and the importance of connectivity and ecohydrological processes in freshwater floodplain wetlands of the GBR catchment, the Tully–Murray study helped to drive new policy directives for the protection and restoration of catchment, floodplain, and estuary functions, and connectivity, now embedded in the Reef 2050 Long‐Term Sustainability Plan 2018, an overarching strategy for managing the GBR over the next 35 years, and complementary Queensland environmental legislation.

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将淡水湿地科学纳入大堡礁可持续性规划

1. 2015年发表在《水生保护：海洋和淡水生态系统》上的论文“农业流域的剩余淡水泛滥泻湖在农业流域的生物多样性价值：湿热带地区生物的证据”，以多种方式为淡水湿地的整合做出了贡献新的集水区管理政策和实践中的科学，以实现大堡礁（GBR）的可持续性。
2. Tully-Murray生物多样性研究开发了新颖的协议，可以结合使用船上背包式电钓鱼和Fyke网，在洪泛平原泻湖中对幼体，幼年和成年鱼类的生活史阶段进行采样。此外，以全新的方式应用了水文和水动力模型，以量化洪泛区溪流，甘蔗排水道和湿地之间水连通性的时间，范围和持续时间。结合这两种新颖的方法，可以分析与环境梯度有关的泻湖鱼类组合模式，尤其是洪泛区水文，连通性模式以及与农业土地利用有关的措施。
3. 在论证塔利-默里流域淡水洪泛区泻湖中不同程度的连通性对不同生物多样性成果的重要性时，主题文件确定了湿地管理实践中应考虑洪泛区连通性。
4. 主题出版的时机是偶然的。它与基于证据的《 2017年科学共识声明》的准备工作有关，该声明涉及陆基水质对GBR的影响。作为当时GBR流域的少数淡水湿地生态出版物之一，本文在证明淡水湿地价值，鱼类保护方案以及维持GBR流域湿地生态健康和服务的管理要求方面发挥了重要作用。
5. 通过增进对生物多样性模式驱动因素的理解，以及GBR流域淡水洪泛区湿地中连通性和生态水文过程的重要性，Tully-Murray研究有助于推动制定新的政策指令，以保护和恢复流域，洪泛区和河口功能和连接性，现在已纳入《 Reef 2050长期可持续发展计划2018》，一项在未来35年内管理GBR的总体战略以及补充的昆士兰州环境立法。