Assessing soil formation and erosion balances in the Top End with an expanded toolkit

这项工作是及时的，因为它将提供工具和数据，以评估澳大利亚高端地区潜在农业开发的土壤流失的可持续性。由于澳大利亚南部的粮食种植区受到长期干旱的压力，联邦政府成立了北澳大利亚土地和水资源特别工作组，以探索顶端地区在农业和其他发展方面的潜力。其简报的一个关键组成部分是，发展必须是可持续的。朝鲜农业增加的经济后果可能是深远的，这项研究的结果将是成功的关键。

This work is timely as it will provide the tools and the data to assess the sustainability with regard to soil loss of potential agricultural development in the Top End of Australia. With food-growing areas in southern Australia under stress from a prolonged drought, the Federal Government has established a Northern Australia Land and Water Taskforce to explore the potential of the Top End for agricultural and other development. A key component of its brief is that development must be sustainable. The economic consequences of increased agriculture in the North are likely to be profound, and the findings of this research will be crucial to success.