Changes in water quality associated with agricultural development in northern Australian catchments

Project manager: Jon Brodie

Project staff: Alan Mitchell

Project funding: Reef CRC

This project reviewed current data sets on water quality in northern Australian rivers and correlated changed water quality with the degree and type of agricultural development. The results have been used in a number of catchment modelling projects. The results have been published as:

• Brodie, J. and Mitchell, A. 2006. Sediments and nutrients in north Queensland tropical streams: changes with agricultural development and pristine condition status. CRC Reef Research Centre Technical Report No. 62, CRC Reef Research Centre, Townsville, 140p.

• Brodie, J. and Mitchell, A. 2005. Nutrients in Australian tropical rivers: changes with agricultural development and implications for receiving environments. Marine and Freshwater Research 56(3), 279-302.