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The Health of the Aquatic Environment in the Darwin Harbour Region

Details:

Title

The Health of the Aquatic Environment in the Darwin Harbour Region,

Creator

Water Monitoring Branch,

Collection

E-Publications, PublicationNT, E-Books, Report No. 5/2005,

Date

2005,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Description

The health of the aquatic environment in the Darwin Harbour region (Map 1.1) is assessed in this report based on monitoring undertaken by the Natural Resource Management Division of the Department of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts. The objective of the monitoring is to provide an overview of the aquatic environment's health.,

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT),

Table of contents

Introduction -- Catchment description -- Freshwater aquatic environments -- Condition of riparian (stream-side) land -- River flows -- Stream water quality -- The amount of sediment, nutrients and metals that enter the harbour each year -- Pesticides -- Aquatic weeds in the Darwin Harbour Region -- Stream macroalgae -- Stream diatoms -- Stream macroinvertebrates -- Freshwater fish -- freshwater lagoons -- Darwin Harbour water quality -- Collaborative monitoring and research with the Australian Institute of Marine Science -- Mangroves,

Language

English,

Subject

Community benefits, Marine environment, Aquatic environment, Sustainable environment,

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government,

Place of publication

Darwin,

Series

Report No. 5/2005,

Now known as

Northern Territory. Department of Environment and Natural Resources,

Format

ii, 70 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps, tables ; 30 cm.,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

724548718,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/294575,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/396212