Developing a monitoring program for six key estuaries in North-West Tasmania: Port Sorell

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 Port Sorell.

本研究采用了Crawford与White（2006）开发的监测方案，该方案旨在评估塔斯马尼亚州西北部六处关键河口的现状：索雷尔港（Port Sorell）、莱文河口（Leven Estuary）、英格利斯河口（Inglis Estuary）、布莱克河口（Black Estuary）、蒙塔古河口（Montagu Estuary）以及阿瑟河河口（Arthur River Estuary）。本研究涵盖了一系列常用于河口监测的水质与生态指标，具体包括：水体层面的盐度、水温、溶解氧、浊度、pH值、营养盐（硝酸盐+亚硝酸盐、溶解性活性磷与氨氮）、钼反应性硅以及叶绿素a（chlorophyll a）；沉积物层面的叶绿素a与大型底栖无脊椎动物（macroinvertebrate）群落结构。本数据集所收录的数据均采集自索雷尔港（Port Sorell）。