Large-scale pesticide monitoring across Great Barrier Reef catchments - Paddock to Reef Integrated Monitoring, Modelling and Reporting Program

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue 4-9, 2012, Pages 117-127

  Smith, Rachael ^a   Middlebrook, Rachael ^a   Turner, Ryan ^a   Huggins, Rae ^a   Vardy, Suzanne ^a   Warne, Michael ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Great barrier reef; Mixtures; Pesticides; Reef plan; Toxic equivalent quotients

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL AREAS; AMETRYN; CATCHMENT AREA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; HEXAZINONE; INTEGRATED MONITORING; METOLACHLORS; MONITORING PROGRAMS; NEW ZEALAND; PHOTOSYSTEM II; QUEENSLAND; SUB-CATCHMENT; SYSTEM SITES; TEBUTHIURON; TIDAL ZONES; TOXIC EQUIVALENTS TEQ; WATER QUALITY GUIDELINES;

CATCHMENTS; MIXTURES; PESTICIDES; REEFS; RUNOFF; TOXICITY; UREA; WATER QUALITY; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

AMETRYN; ATRAZINE; DIURON; HEXAZINONE; PESTICIDE; TEBUTHIURON;

BIOMONITORING; CATCHMENT; CORAL REEF; HERBICIDE; MODELING; PESTICIDE; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CATCHMENT; CORAL REEF; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GREAT BARRIER REEF; HABITAT QUALITY; LAGOON; NEW ZEALAND; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PHOTOSYSTEM II; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD;

AGRICULTURE; AUSTRALIA; CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PESTICIDES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84862238788     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.08.010     Document Type: Article

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