The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is a World Heritage Area and contains extensive areas of
coral reef, seagrass meadows and fisheries resources. From adjacent catchments …

Modification of terrestrial sediment fluxes can result in increased sedimentation and turbidity
in receiving waters, with detrimental impacts on coral reef ecosystems. Preventing …

Identifying how agricultural practices can be changed to reduce sediment loss requires
knowledge of the erosion processes and spatial areas contributing to end of catchment …

Globally, the area of agricultural land is shrinking in part due to environmental degradation.
Acquisition and restoration of degraded lands no longer used for agriculture may present a …

The environmental consequences of agriculture are of growing concern. One example of
these consequences is the effect of agricultural pollutants on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), a …

Along low gradient rivers in northern Australia, there is widespread gully erosion into
unconfined alluvial deposits of active and inactive floodplains. On the Mitchell River fluvial …

Chemical and sediment losses from agricultural lands are threatening coastal marine and
aquatic ecosystems in many parts of the world. This is an acute problem in Australia, where …

Land use (and land management) change is seen as the primary factor responsible for
changes in sediment and nutrient delivery to water bodies. Understanding how sediment …

Drainage network extension in semi‐arid rangelands has contributed to a large increase in
the amount of fine sediment delivered to the coastal lagoon of the Great Barrier Reef, but …

Remote detection of management-related trend in the presence of inter-annual climatic
variability in the rangelands is difficult. Minimally disturbed reference areas provide a useful …