Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet, 2008:

• "Water discharged from rivers to the GBR continues to be of poor quality in many locations.
• Land derived contaminants, including suspended sediments, nutrients and pesticides are present in the GBR at concentrations likely to cause environmental harm.
• There is strengthened evidence of the causal relationship between water quality and coastal and marine ecosystem health.
• The health of freshwater ecosystems is impaired by agricultural land use, hydrological change, riparian degradation and weed infestation
• Current management interventions are not effectively solving the problem.
• Climate change and major land use change will have confounding influences on GBR health.
• Effective science coordination to collate, synthesise and integrate disparate knowledge across disciplines is urgently needed."
  

Citation and/or URL

Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet 2008, Scientific consensus statement on water quality in the Great Barrier Reef. Queensland Department of Premier and Cabinet, Brisbane, Australia.

Spatial Coverage

Great Barrier Reef

Temporal Coverage

2008

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