Phase 1 of a project by CSIRO and JCU developed a scoping study for an ecological risk assessment of agricultural contaminants in the Great Barrier Reef region. The study, conducted from 2011 to 2012, aimed to create a systematic method for ranking risks from nutrients, sediments, and pesticides to different ecosystems and keynote species. Results were used to secure support for a full Phase 2 risk assessment.
Use Cases
- Develop ecological risk assessment frameworks based on the described scoping study methodology.
- Rank relative risks of agricultural contaminants like pesticides and nutrients based on the project's systematic approach.
- Model impacts of fine suspended sediments on different marine ecosystems and keynote species as referenced in the description.
Strengths
- Project involved major Australian research institutions CSIRO and JCU.
- Describes a systematic, objective, and transparent approach for risk ranking.
- Phase 1 study successfully secured support for a full Phase 2 assessment.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Scoping study to develop a robust approach for ecological risk assessment.
- Time Range
- 2011-2012
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-14 07:17:15.763706; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Great Barrier Reef region, Australia