Burdekin River
Fine-suspended sediment and water budgets for a large, seasonally dry tropical catchment: Burdekin River catchment, Queensland, Australia
... The Burdekin contributes the highest suspended sediment load to the GBR (30% of total) of all the coastal catchments, exporting an average of ...by Burdekin River discharge and recent catchment ...
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Tracing the sources, transport and dispersal of suspended sediment from the Burdekin River catchment into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon
... the Burdekin River mouth ...turbid river plumes (e.g. Fly River: Ayukai and Wolanski, 1997; Dagg et ...Amazon River: Gibbs and Konwar, 1986; Eel River: Hill et ...Po ...
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Nutrient loss and water quality under extensive grazing in the upper Burdekin river catchment, North Queensland
... The study was conducted on Wambiana station near Charters Towers, Australia (Fig. 1). Mean annual rain- fall is 650 mm (CV = 40%). The area is drained by the Cape and Campaspe rivers, which are important tribu- taries of ...
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Determining end-point goals and effective strategies for rehabilitation of Coastal Wetlands: examples from the Burdekin River, North Queensland
... The Burdekin River responds to every runoff generating rain event by becoming turbid for a period of days to weeks, or even months, depending on the size of the event and extent of follow-up ...the ...
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Developing appropriate incentives for improving water quality in the Burdekin River catchment
... The Burdekin River Catchment (Burdekin Dry Tropics region) has been identified as one of ten high risk catchments along the Queensland east coast due to the Burdekin River producing the ...
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Quantifying total suspended sediment export from the Burdekin River catchment using the loads regression estimator tool
... the model to predict concentration and to compute an accu- rate estimate of the load. We included two additional terms in the model to capture some of the complex features of the concentration-flow relationship for the ...
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Paddock to Reef Monitoring & Evaluation - Economic analysis of ‘ABCD’ cane management for the Burdekin River Irrigation Area.
... The economic analysis is based on the A, B, C and D management practice framework for water quality improvement developed in 2007/2008 by the respective natural resource management region. This document focuses on the ...
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Sustainable management of the Burdekin grazing lands - A technical guide of options for stocking rate management, pasture spelling, infrastructure development and prescribed burning to optimise animal production, profitability, land condition and water quality outcomes.
... the Burdekin catchment and found between 77% and 89% of the fine sediment loss was derived from subsurface soil sources with sediment sources in close proximity to the drainage ...the Burdekin River ...
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Water Quality Targets for the Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Plan. ACTFR Report No. 08/05 for the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM
... the Burdekin River extends widely over the GBR lagoon with transport of material as far north as Cairns (Devlin and Brodie, ...the Burdekin, and long-term regional turbidity is not fully understood, ...
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‘The sweeter country': social dimensions to riparian management in the Burdekin Rangelands, Queensland
... Riparian management practices RRMPs recommended to improve the condition of riparian areas in the Burdekin River catchment include maintaining light stocking rates; managing for even uti[r] ...
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The history and relationships of northern platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) populations: a molecular approach
... the Burdekin River and which geographically separates northern platypuses from southern ...the Burdekin break, was a binding thread throughout the ...
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Phytoplankton dynamics of riverine water holes in the dry tropics of north Queensland, Australia
... Microalgae are key components of aquatic food webs and biodiversity, yet dynamics of algal assemblages in tropical systems are largely unknown. This study investigated algal assemblages and physico-chemical properties of ...
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Modelling and monitoring the sediment trapping efficiency and sediment dynamics of the Burdekin Falls Dam, Queensland, Australia
... major river arms upstream of the BFD drain considerable catchment areas and also contain several different rock/soil ...Upper Burdekin River at Sellheim and it is apparent that the coarser sediments ...
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2017 Scientific Consensus Statement: land use impacts on the Great Barrier Reef water quality and ecosystem condition, Chapter 2: sources of sediment, nutrients, pesticides and other pollutants to the Great Barrier Reef
... the Burdekin River showed that most fine sediment is held within 20 km of the river mouth and is not transported as far offshore as previously thought (Lewis et ...of river discharges, ...
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A Dual Ensemble Agroclimate Modelling Procedure to Assess Climate Change Impacts on Sugarcane Production in Australia
... Irrigation strategies differ for each region. The Burdekin is a fully irrigated production system. Here growers tend to irrigate on a calendar basis rather than using any information about the soil water balance. ...
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Geochemistry of Water and Suspended Particulate in the Lower Yangtze River: Implications for Geographic and Anthropogenic Effects
... Figure 5 showed the distribution of TEFs in suspended particulate of different sites. Two curves in the same dia- gram represented samples collected at HFR and LFR. TEFs of most samples were affected by the hydrological ...
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A dual ensemble agroclimate modelling procedure to assess climate change impacts on sugarcane production in Australia
... the Burdekin and Mackay for the A2 scenario (Figure ...the Burdekin. In the Burdekin, our simulations showed less irrigation would be neces- sary in a future climate (2046 to 2065) because of reduced ...
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Sediment budget in the Ucayali River basin, an Andean tributary of the Amazon River
... Ucayali River is a main Andean tributary of the Amazon River, the largest river system in the ...Amazon River, to its confluence with the Marañón river (~90 m ...Ucayali River ...
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Alternative fruit fly control for market access and to enhance IPM in eggplant
... The major production areas of Bowen, Burdekin and Bundaberg are classified as areas with endemic fruit populations all year round. Trapping across the three regions found that the two main species of fruit fly ...
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Sedimentation Study on Upstream Reach of Selected Rivers in Pahang River Basin, Malaysia
... Pahang River is the main river that flows through the state of Pahang, ...The river begins at the confluence of Jelai and Tembeling rivers in the Titiwangsa Mountains and drains into the South China ...
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