Flood plumes: what makes seagrass meadows vulnerable?

Flood plumes: what makes seagrass meadows vulnerable?

Australian Canegrower

27 May 2013


Seagrass meadows form a buffer between catchments and the reef, trapping sediments and absorbing nutrients. But these seagrass meadows have been in decline in the Great Barrier Reef over the past few years, and researchers from the National Environmental Research Program (NERP) are looking into what effect flood plumes – resulting from the extraordinary rain events we have seen in far north Queensland in recent years – are having on water quality on our reef.

 

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