Nitrogen and Phosphorus Budgets for the Central Great Barrier Reef Shelf

Miles Furnas, Alan W. Mitchell and Michele Skuza
Tropical Oceanography Program
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Townsville

July 1995

A Report To The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

1. COVER PAGE & VERSO [Adobe Acrobat Format 70.34KB]
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS [Adobe Acrobat Format 711.88KB]
3. SUMMARY [Adobe Acrobat Format 172.29KB]
4. INTRODUCTION [Adobe Acrobat Format 202.83KB]
5. THE STUDY AREA [Adobe Acrobat Format 659.01KB]
6. PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY [Adobe Acrobat Format 103.53KB]
7. CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF NUTRIENT POOLS AND FLUXES [Adobe Acrobat Format 426.32KB]
8. METHODS [Adobe Acrobat Format 1501.42KB]
   • Water Sampling..
   • Underwater and Diurnal Light Measurements
   • Zooplankton Sampling
   • Nutrient Subsampling
   • River Sampling
   • Rainwater Sampling
   • Analytical Procedures
   • Primary Production Measurements
   • Frequency and Magnitude of Intrusive Activity off Cairns
   • Sediment Trap Sampling
   • Moored Traps
   • Drifter Traps
   • Carbon and Nitrogen Analyses of Trapped Materials..
   • Phosphorus Analyses of Trapped Materials
9. NUTRIENT STOCKS [Adobe Acrobat Format 1052.11KB]
10. TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF NUTRIENT SPECIES IN THE CAIRNS AND TULLY BOXES [Adobe Acrobat Format 912.24KB]
11. RIVER INPUTS OF NUTRIENTS [Adobe Acrobat Format 1689.47KB]
    • Longitudinal Variations of Nutrient Concentrations within Catchments
      • Herbert River
      • Tully River
    • Inter-River Comparisons
    • Estuarine Processes
    • Riverine Nitrogen and Phosphorus Exports to Coastal Waters..
12. RAINFALL INPUTS OF NUTRIENTS [Adobe Acrobat Format 337.52KB]
13. INTRUSIONS FROM THE CORAL SEA [Adobe Acrobat Format 443.35KB]
14. NITROGEN FIXATION BY TRICHODESMZUM [Adobe Acrobat Format 186.37KB ]
15. ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN FIXATION BY REEF COMMUNITIES [Adobe Acrobat Format 185.03KB]
16. SEDIMENTATION OF PARTICULATE MATERIALS AND NUTRIENTS [Adobe Acrobat Format 1299.08KB]
    • Moored Traps
    • Lagrangian Drifting Traps..
17. BENTHIC NUTRIENT FLUXES [Adobe Acrobat Format 294.01KB]
18. PHYTOPLANKTON NUTRIENT DEMAND [Adobe Acrobat Format 212.83KB]
19. WATER COLUMN NUTRIENT MINERALIZATION BY ZOOPLANKTON AND MICROBIAL POPULATIONS [Adobe Acrobat Format 412.95KB]
    • Macro- and Microzooplankton
20. MICROBIAL MINERALIZATION [Adobe Acrobat Format 233.69KB]
21. BUDGET SYNTHESIS AND DISCUSSION [Adobe Acrobat Format 1955.39KB]
22. THE BALANCE BETWEEN UPTAKE DEMAND AND SOURCES OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS [Adobe Acrobat Format 95.34KB]
23. SUMMATION [Adobe Acrobat Format 255.10KB]
24. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS [Adobe Acrobat Format 52.33KB]
25. REFERENCES [Adobe Acrobat Format 872.51KB]

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