scholarly journals Paddock scale modelling to assess effectiveness of agricultural management practice in improving water quality in the Great Barrier Reef Catchments

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Agricultural Management ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Scale Modelling

scholarly journals Target setting for pollutant discharge management of rivers in the Great Barrier Reef catchment area

2009 ◽  
Vol 60 (11) ◽  
pp. 1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Brodie ◽  
Stephen Lewis ◽  
Zoe Bainbridge ◽  
Alan Mitchell ◽  
Jane Waterhouse ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Suspended Sediments ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Discharge Management ◽  
Fertiliser Application ◽  
Pollutant Discharge ◽  
High Degree

Water Quality Improvement Plans (WQIPs) are being developed for individual river basins on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) catchment associated with the GBR Water Quality Protection Plan. Within each WQIP, marine ecosystem targets are linked to end-of-river pollutant (suspended sediments, nutrients and pesticides) load targets and to farm level management practice targets. The targets are linked through quantitative models; e.g. one model connects GBR chlorophyll concentrations (marine target) to end-of-river nitrate loads, a second connects the end-of-river nitrate loads to fertiliser management targets in the catchment, whereas a third model links fertiliser application to nitrate loss at the farm scale. The difficulties of applying these linked models to derive credible and practical management targets are great, given the high degree of uncertainty in each model. Our understanding of the generation of suspended sediments, nutrients and pesticides in catchments and the relationship to on-farm management, the transport of these materials to the ocean, their transport in coastal waters and their effects on marine ecosystems is incomplete. The challenge is to produce estimates from the models, with known levels of uncertainty, but robust enough for management purposes. Case studies from the Tully–Murray basin and the Burdekin basin in north Queensland are discussed.

scholarly journals Adoption of agricultural management for Great Barrier Reef water quality improvement in heterogeneous farming communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.E. van Grieken ◽  
P.C. Roebeling ◽  
I.C. Bohnet ◽  
S.M. Whitten ◽  
A.J. Webster ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Agricultural Management ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Water Quality Improvement ◽  
Farming Communities

Management of Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

1989 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Woodley
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Coral Reef ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Management Issue ◽  
Reef System ◽  
Marine Park ◽  
World Heritage List ◽  
The World ◽  
Coral Reef System

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. It is recognised and appreciated worldwide as a unique environment and for this reason has been inscribed on the World Heritage List. The Reef is economically-important to Queensland and Australia, supporting substantial tourism and fishing industries. Management of the Great Barrier Reef to ensure conservation of its natural qualities in perpetuity is achieved through the establishment of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The maintenance of water quality to protect the reef and the industries which depend on it is becoming an increasingly important management issue requiring better knowledge and possibly new standards of treatment and discharge.

Land use conversion to improve water quality in high DIN risk, low-lying sugarcane areas of the Great Barrier Reef catchments

2021 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 112373
Author(s):  
Nathan J. Waltham ◽  
Carla Wegscheidl ◽  
Adrian Volders ◽  
James C.R. Smart ◽  
Syezlin Hasan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Land Use Conversion ◽  
Improve Water Quality

Water quality in the inshore Great Barrier Reef lagoon: Implications for long-term monitoring and management

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (4-9) ◽  
pp. 249-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britta Schaffelke ◽  
John Carleton ◽  
Michele Skuza ◽  
Irena Zagorskis ◽  
Miles J. Furnas
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Reef Lagoon ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Term Monitoring ◽  
Inshore Great Barrier Reef

The Future of the Great Barrier Reef: The Water Quality Imperative

2019 ◽  
pp. 477-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Brodie ◽  
A. Grech ◽  
B. Pressey ◽  
J. Day ◽  
A.P. Dale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
The Future

New Regionalism and Planning for Water Quality Improvement in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANN PETERSON ◽  
MICHELLE WALKER ◽  
MARY MAHER ◽  
SUZANNE HOVERMAN ◽  
RACHEL EBERHARD
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
New Regionalism ◽  
Water Quality Improvement

scholarly journals Lost Floodplain Wetland Environments and Efforts to Restore Connectivity, Habitat, and Water Quality Settings on the Great Barrier Reef

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan J. Waltham ◽  
Damien Burrows ◽  
Carla Wegscheidl ◽  
Christina Buelow ◽  
Mike Ronan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Floodplain Wetland
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