EwE files for: From phytoplankton to the Murray cod: modelling the Murray River’s food web

Ecopath with Ecosim files from the report:Hitchcock JN, McInerney PJ, Zampatti B and Rees G (2025) ​From phytoplankton to the Murray cod: modelling the Murray River’s food web​. Flow-MER Program. Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder: Flow Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Program, Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water, Canberra, Australia.The food web models were constructed for 4 reaches of the Murray River, encompassing 2,152 km of river channel from the Hume Dam in New South Wales downstream to Wellington in South Australia. Models were built for a 45-year period and used a mixture of historical and recent data, as well as knowledge from the literature detailing taxa biomass, diets and flow–ecology relationships.The CEWH’s Flow-MER program examines the contribution of Commonwealth environmental water to the environmental objectives of the Basin Plan 2012 (Basin Plan) and is assisting the CEWH to demonstrate environmental outcomes and adaptively manage the water holdings. Monitoring and evaluation is focused in seven Selected Areas: the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers, Gwydir river system, Lachlan river system, Murrumbidgee river system, Edward/Kolety-Wakool river system, Goulburn River and Lower Murray River.For more information: https://flow-mer.org.au/basin-theme-food-webs-water-quality/