Developing a monitoring program for six key estuaries in North-West Tasmania: Leven River

We implemented a monitoring program developed by Crawford and White (2006), which was designed to assess the current condition of six key estuaries in NW Tasmania: Port Sorell, the Leven, Inglis, Black, Montagu and Arthur River estuaries. This study considered a range of water quality and ecological indictors commonly used to monitor estuaries. These included: salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, pH, nutrients (nitrate + nitrite, dissolved reactive phosphorus and ammonia), silica molybdate reactive and chlorophyll a for the water column; chlorophyll a and macroinvertebrate community structure amongst the sediments. The data represented by this record was collected in Leven River.

我们实施了由Crawford与White（2006）开发的监测方案，该方案旨在评估塔斯马尼亚西北部6个关键河口的现状，包括Port Sorell河口、Leven河口、Inglis河口、Black河口、Montagu河口及Arthur River河口。本研究涵盖了一系列常用于河口监测的水质及生态指标，具体包括：水体层面的盐度、温度、溶解氧、浊度、pH值、营养盐（硝酸盐+亚硝酸盐、溶解性活性磷及氨氮）、硅钼酸盐反应性物质及叶绿素a；沉积物层面的叶绿素a及大型无脊椎动物群落结构。本记录所呈现的数据采集于Leven河。