Samphire Marshes of the Peel-Harvey Estuarine System
Author : A. J. McComb
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Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Salt marsh ecology
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Author : A. J. McComb
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Salt marsh ecology
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Author : Anne Brearley
Publisher : UWA Publishing
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Estuarine biology
ISBN : 1920694382
Synthesis of the results of may years of research on Estuarine environments form the Murchison to Esperance, Western Australia.
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Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN :
A text, based on papers given at a symposium in Perth, discusses the plants, fungi and animals of WA. Examines their place in the environment, their evolution, their biology and their interaction as well as the fossil history of the flora and the evolution of genetic systems. The introductory chapter provides an overview, while subsequent chapters are grouped around themes. Includes colour plates, diagrams, charts and an index.
Author : P. de Deckker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400948204
Australia is the world's driest inhabited continent. Water is our limiting resource. It might therefore be thought that our water resources would be the subject of the most intensive study. Certain aspects, it must be conceded, have received much attention, notably the availability of water in terms of actual quantity. The size of the surface water and the groundwater resource is well understood and indeed receives about as much study as can reasonably be expected in a country with as sparse a population and level of scientific manpower as ours. Although the importance of understanding the water resource in terms of quantity is widely accepted, what has not been generally appreciated is that for this resource to be 'available' to human society for all the different uses to which it is put, it is not sufficient that there exists within easy reach of the end users a certain total volume of water. For that water to fulfil its functions-for agriculture, industry, the home, recreation, biological conservation-it must be in a certain state: it must conform to certain chemical, physical and biological criteria, and what has not been sufficiently appreciated in Australian society is that the condition a water is in depends very much on the ecology of the waterbody in which it resides. There are waterbodies in the world, for example high-altitude glacial lakes, which are naturally so pristine that their water could be used for any purpose without treatment.
Author : Royal Society of South Australia
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Science
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Page : 930 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Australia
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Author : Patrick De Deckker
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Page : 698 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biology
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Author : Bruce J. Neilson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 146125826X
Estuaries are eternally enriched. Their positions at the foot of watersheds and their convenience as receiving bodies for the wastes of cites, towns and farms results in continuous addition of nutrients - those elements and compounds which are essential for organic production. Such materials must be added to these complex bodies of water to sustain production, since there is a net loss of water and its contents to the oceans. Enrichment from land and the ocean and the subsequent cycling of the original chemicals or their derivatives contribute to the extraordinarily high values of estuaries for human purposes. Many estuaries are able to assimilate large quantities of nutrients despite the great fluctuations which occur with variations in the flow from tributaries. The nutrients can be stored, incorporated in standing crops of plants, released, cycled and exported - and the system frequently achieves high production of plants and and animals without creation of any undesirable results of enrichment. Excessive enrichment with the same elements and compounds can, however, be highly detrimental to estuaries and their uses. Coastal cities are usually located on the estuaries which provided a harbor for the- and which now receive partially treated sewage and other wastes from the expanding population and industrial activity. Conversion of woodlands to agricultural use and the extensive application of fertilizers have resulted in the flow of large quantities of nutrients down the hill or slopes and eventually into the estuary.
Author : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Publisher : International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9290907843
Author : Robert P. Bourman
Publisher : University of Adelaide Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1925261212
Geologically, the South Australian coast is very young, having evolved over only 1% of geological time, during the past 43 million years since the separation of Australia and Antarctica. It is also very dynamic, with the current shoreline position having been established from only 7000 years ago. The South Australian mainland coast is 3816 km long, with islands providing an additional 1251 km of coast, giving a total coastline of just over 5000 km. South Australian coastal landforms include cliffs, rocky outcrops and shore platforms, mangrove woodlands, mudflats, estuaries, extensive sandy beaches, coastal dunes and coastal barrier systems, as well as numerous near-shore reefs and islands. This book is a landmark study into the variable character of the South Australian coast and its long-term evolution.