Devlin, Michelle, Brodie, Jon, Waterhouse, Jane, Mitchell, Alan , Audas, Donna, and Haynes, David (2003) Exposure of Great Barrier Reef inner-shelf reefs to river-borne contaminants. In: Protecting the Values of Rivers, Wetlands and the Reef. From: 2nd National Conference on Aquatic Environments: Sustaining our Aquatic Environments - Implementing Solutions, 20 - 23 November 2001, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

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Predicting the effects of contaminant inputs on coastal marine ecosystems has become increasingly important as discharges have increased due to landuse change on watersheds. Coastal pollution from land-based sources and in particular eutrophication are now seen as the principal human threat to coastal seas at a global scale (Correlli, 1998; Carpenter et ai, 1998; Nixon, 1995; Cloem, 2001). To successfully assess the threat to coastal ecosystems from land-based sources of pollution catchment budgets, which determine the relative magnitude of the various sources of contaminants, are necessary. This sort of budgeting has now been carried out in great detail in Europe, North America and the Atlantic Ocean (Howarth et al, 1996; Nixon et al, 1996; De Wit, 2000; Alexander et al, 2002). A similar need is evident for the Great Barrier Reef World heritage Area and its catchment. Such a risk based approach is needed to prioritise catchment management initiatives and compare risk factors within catchments to prioritise works.

Item ID:	7816
Item Type:	Conference Item (Research - E1)
ISBN:	0-7345-2463-3
Keywords:	catchments; contaminant; ecosytem; marine
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Additional Information:	Department of Natural Resources & Mines
Date Deposited:	25 Jan 2010 01:28
FoR Codes:	05 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 0502 Environmental Science and Management > 050209 Natural Resource Management @ 100%
SEO Codes:	96 ENVIRONMENT > 9609 Land and Water Management > 960999 Land and Water Management of Environments not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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