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Determining the ecological health of estuaries in North-Western Tasmania: Montagu River

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This study considered a range of water-column and sediment (benthos) based variables commonly used to monitor estuaries,utilising estuaries on the North-West Coast of Tasmania (Duck, Montagu, Detention, and Black River). These included: salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, nutrient and chlorophyll a levels for the water-column; and sediment redox, organic carbon content, chlorophyll a and macroinvertebrate community structure amongst the benthos. In addition to comparing reference with impacted estuaries, comparisons were also made across seasons, commensurate with seasonal changes in freshwater river input, and between regions within estuaries (upper and lower reaches) - previously identified in Hirst et al. (2005). This design enabled us to examine whether the detection of impacts (i.e. differences between reference and impacted systems) was contingent on the time and location of sampling or independent of these factors. The data represented by this record was collected in the Montagu River.

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Title Determining the ecological health of estuaries in North-Western Tasmania: Montagu River
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3a52f57c-2516-490c-b7d6-1e0372a12112
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Christine.Crawford@utas.edu.au
Reference Period 01/10/2005 - 31/07/2006
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Determining the ecological health of estuaries in North-Western Tasmania: Montagu River". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/determining-the-ecological-health-of-estuaries-in-north-western-tasmania-montagu-river