Tracing nitrogen through wet tropical aquifers using stable isotopic signatures, molecular markers and gas emissions

该项目旨在使土地管理者能够减少氮流失到大堡礁集水区的小溪、河流和河口。这将提高初级生产的经济和环境可行性，同时恢复水生和海洋生态系统的质量。结果将确定土地管理需要改变的景观部分，以及在什么时间范围内会出现明显的改善。这些产出涉及州和国家政府的“珊瑚礁水质保护计划”和“远北昆士兰州自然资源管理计划”的水质优先事项和目标。

The project aims at enabling land managers to reduce the loss of nitrogen into creeks, rivers and estuaries of the Great Barrier Reef catchments. This will improve the economic and environmental viability of primary production while restoring the quality of aquatic and marine ecosystems. The results will identify parts of the landscape where land management needs to change and over what time scale improvements would be apparent. These outputs address the water quality priorites and targets of the 'Reef Water Quality Protection Plan' of the State and National governments and the 'Far North Queensland Natural Resource Management Plan'.