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Anthropogenic Pressures on Darwin Harbour: Darwin Harbour Integrated Marine Monitoring and Research Program Monitoring Report 2020-21

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Title

Anthropogenic Pressures on Darwin Harbour: Darwin Harbour Integrated Marine Monitoring and Research Program Monitoring Report 2020-21,

Creator

Northern Territory. Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Flora and Fauna Division,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT, DEPWS Report 3/2022,

Date

2022-01-20,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Abstract

This document is the first annual monitoring report of the Pressure Monitoring sub-program of the Darwin Harbour Integrated Marine Monitoring and Research Program (IMMRP). It reports on trends and other relationships in the time series of a range of pressure indicators previously identified as relevant to Darwin Harbour. The indicators correspond to key aspects of catchment condition including land-use, stormwater pollutant loads, fire regime and waste disposal, marine pressures including shipping activity and biological harvesting and the underpinning drivers behind the pressures including human population and economic development. Several of the indicators had increasing trends that were statistically significant over the time periods of measurement including population size and gross regional product (2000-01 to 2019-20), fire frequencies in most western sub-catchments (2000 to 2020) and point-source loads of total nitrogen to the Inner Harbour (2011-12 to 2018-19).,

Notes

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

Table of contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Indicator time series -- 3. Synthesis -- 4. Communication -- 5. Recommendations for ongoing monitoring -- 6. References -- 7. Appendix A. Recommended pressure and driver indicators -- 8. Appendix B: Data methods, sources and caveats -- 9. Appendix C: Results of trend analysis -- 10. Appendix D. Datasets and additional information -- List of Figures,

Language

English,

Subject

Anthropogenic Pressures, Northern Territory, Darwin Harbour,

Publisher name

Northern Territory Goverment,

Place of publication

Palmerston,

Series

DEPWS Report 3/2022,

Format

94 pages : colour illustrations and maps ; 30 cm,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

978174350317,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government,

License

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

Related links

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/886473 [LANT: E-Publications : Anthropogenic Pressures on Darwin Harbour Darwin Harbour Integrated Marine Monitoring and Research Program Monitoring Report 2021-22], https://hdl.handle.net/10070/762998 [LANT: E-Publications : Anthropogenic Pressures on Darwin Harbour: An IMMRP Monitoring Plan (Version 1)], https://hdl.handle.net/10070/774781 [LANT: E-Publications : Developing an integrated long-term monitoring program for Darwin Harbour. Anthropogenic Pressures Pilot Project - Development of Pressure Indicators for Darwin Harbour],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/856556,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/856557