The influence of a season of extreme wet weather events on exposure of the World Heritage Area Great Barrier Reef to pesticides

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1495-1507

  Kennedy, Karen ^a,b   Devlin, Michelle ^c   Bentley, Christie ^a   Lee Chue, Kristie ^a   Paxman, Chris ^a   Carter, Steve ^d   Lewis, Stephen E ^c   Brodie, Jon ^c   Guy, Ellia ^a   Vardy, Suzanne ^b   Martin, Katherine C ^e   Jones, Alison ^f   Packett, Robert ^g   Mueller, Jochen F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND HEALTH   (Australia)

^e GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK AUTHORITY   (Australia)

^f CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g The Department of Natural Resources and Mines   (Australia)

Author keywords

Freshwater discharge; Long term monitoring; Passive sampling; Photosystem II herbicides

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; EQUIVALENT CONCENTRATIONS; EXTREME WEATHER; FLOOD PLUMES; FRESHWATER DISCHARGE; GREAT BARRIER REEF; LONG TERM MONITORING; METOLACHLORS; PASSIVE SAMPLING; PHOTOSYSTEM II; QUEENSLAND; TEBUTHIURON; WATER QUALITY GUIDELINES; WET SEASON; WET WEATHER;

REEFS; UREA; WATER QUALITY; WEED CONTROL;

HERBICIDES;

AMETRYN; ATRAZINE; BROMACIL; DEETHYLATRAZINE; DESISOPROPYL ATRAZINE; DIURON; FLUMETURON; HERBICIDE; HEXAZINONE; METOLACHLOR; PROMETRYN; SIMAZINE; TEBUTHIURON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; DISCHARGE; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; FRESHWATER; HERBICIDE; MARINE POLLUTION; PLUME; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; WATER QUALITY; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOODING; SAMPLING; SEASON; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WEATHER; WET SEASON;

CORAL REEFS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PESTICIDES; QUEENSLAND; SEASONS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; WEATHER;

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

EID: 84863432903     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.05.014     Document Type: Article

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