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The chronic effects of pesticides and their persistence in tropical waters.
The project team will assess and describe all existing and potential sources of pollution to the Torres Strait marine environment. This will be combined with information on water movement patterns to assess the hazard (and to some degree risk) of these pollutant sources to marine ecosystems and public health. The project will use the results to make recommendations to managers on priority pollutant management in the region, and to design a basic monitoring program for reporting on the status of water quality in the Torres Strait.
Petus, C. (2013) Application of MODIS remote sensing imagery for monitoring turbid river plumes from Papua New Guinea in the Torres Strait Region: a test study.
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Waterhouse, J., Brodie, J., Wolanski, E., Petus, C., Higham, W., Armstrong, T. (2013) Hazard assessment of water quality threats to Torres Strait marine waters and ecosystems.
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About this project:
Good water quality is important for the health of Torres Strait communities and the environment. This project will look at sources of water pollution and water movement to assess risks to marine and public health. The results will highlight the main causes of pollution and be used to design a basic water quality monitoring program.
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Our current knowledge of the mechanisms that affect diversity of plants and animals on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is minimal. This project will map the diversity of groups of organisms and environments of the GBR using existing long-term and large-scale data, and relate biotic diversity to spatial, environmental and temporal drivers. These relationships will be interpreted in the context of risk, zoning and management.
De'ath, G., Fabricius, K., Sweatman, H., Puotinen, M. (2012) The 27-year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes. PNAS. 109 (44), 17995–17999 [doi:10.1073/pnas.1208909109].
* Funded by AIMS and DSEWPaC (NERP)
De'ath, G. (2012) The multinomial diversity model: linking Shannon diversity to multiple predictors. Ecology. 93 (10) 2286-2296 [doi:10.1890/11-2155.1].
Coral Cover and Diversity of the GBR.
De'ath, G., Cappo, M., Fabricius, K., Cheal, A., Coleman, G. (2013) Relating Fish Diversity to Environmental Drivers and the Great Barrier Reef Zoning.
© Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
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