Barry T. Hart

TL;DR: Data suggest that direct adverse biological effects are likely to occur in Australian river, stream and wetland ecosystems if salinity is increased to around 1 000 mg L−1, and a general lack of data on the sensitivity of freshwater plants and animals to salinity increases.

TL;DR: This paper develops a detailed methodology for parameterising and evaluating Bayesian networks using a risk assessment case study, with the focus being on native fish communities in the Goulburn Catchment (Victoria, Australia).

TL;DR: An Index of Stream Condition (ISC) as mentioned in this paper has been developed to assist broad scale management of waterways by providing an integrated measure of their environmental condition, which is intended for use by managers at state and regional levels and can be used to report on stream condition.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the possible mechanisms by which trace metals can be concentrated by sediments and suspended particulate matter is presented, including physic-chemical adsorption from the water column, biological uptake particularly by bacteria and algae, and the sedimentation and physical entrapment of enriched particulate material.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed that field turbidity measurements are well correlated with the concentration of some transported material, in particular total suspended solids and total phosphorus and that these correlations can be used along with logged flow and turbidity data to compute load estimates which are less uncertain than using traditional methods.