Tracking GBR water clarity over time and demonstrating the effects of river discharge events : Progress report : Southern and Northern NRM Regions / Murray Logan [and 5 others]
- Bib ID:
- 8046313
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Logan, Murray, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit
- Online Version:
- NERP Tropical Ecosystems Hub
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- Edition:
- Final report.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available online
- Description:
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- Cairns, Queensland : Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, June 2014
- 1 online resource (vi, 53 pages) : colour illustrations, maps.
- ISBN:
- 9781925088694
- Series:
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- National Environmental Research Program (Australia). Tracking coastal turbidity over time and demonstrating the effects of river discharge events on regional turbidity in the Great Barrier Reef
- NERP research report series ; no. 152
- Technical Details:
- Available online (as at 07/08/15) at: http://www.nerptropical.edu.au/project/tracking-coastal-turbidity-over-time-and-demonstrating-effects-river-discharge.
- Summary:
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The final report on southern and northern NRM regions from the National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub project 4.1 'Tracking coastal turbidity over time and demonstrating the effects of river discharge events on regional turbidity in the Great Barrier Reef'.
Project summary: Turbidity is a measure of water clarity that quantifies the amount of small particles suspended in the water, and is a fundamental environmental parameter influencing coastal marine ecosystems. Turbidity reduces the light needed for photosynthesis by corals and seagrasses, and suspended particles also transport nutrients, pollutants and diseases. Previous research based on 3 years of turbidity data collected from 15 inshore reefs by the Reef Rescue Marine Monitoring Program has shown that it can take several months for water clarity to improve after river floods. This project will analyse a 12-year data set to demonstrate the explicit link between variations in discharge (sediments and nutrients) from the major rivers in each Natural Resource Management (NRM) region adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and seasonal and annual variations in water clarity in the inshore GBR.
- Notes:
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- Title from PDF cover page (viewed on August 7, 2015)
- Published by the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre on behalf of the Australian Government's National Environmental Research Program (NERP) Tropical Ecosystems (TE) Hub.
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Also Titled:
- Tracking Great Barrier Reef water clarity over time and demonstrating the effects of river discharge events : progress report : Southern and Northern natural resource management regions
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