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Appendix 1 — River basin budgets

River basin budget terms

Key material budget terms were modelled or collated as part of the Australian Agriculture Assessment 2001 projects. They cover:

• coupled balances of carbon, water, nitrogen and phosphorus;
• water-borne erosion and sediment transport;
• farm-gate nutrient balance; and
• river nutrient transport.

Key river basin characteristics such as brad agricultural land use categories and climate are provided for context. All attributes are presented as aggregate mass, rate, ratio or percentage estimate at a river basin scale (Figure A1).

River basin budget attributes

Attribute	Units	Description
Context
Basin number	Id	Unique identifier for the river basin
Basin name	Name	River basin name
Basin area	km2	River basin area
Improved pasture	%	Proportion of basin in Australian Land Use and Management Pastures' (National land use map) Classification code 12 `Grazing Improved
Cropping	%	Proportion of basin in Australian Land Use and Management Classification code 15 `Permanent Cropping' (National land use map)
Horticulture	%	Proportion of basin in Australian Land Use and Management lassification code 10 `Agricultural Land' and Australian Land Use and Management Classification code 14 `Horticulture' (National land use map)
Total agricultural land proportion		Total agricultural land proportion
Climate
Rain	mm/yr	Mean daily rainfall
Total evaporation	mm/yr	Mean daily total (canopy + soil) evaporation
Run-off	mm/yr	Mean run-off (rain - evaporation)
Carbon and productivity
Net primary production	t C/ha/yr	Mean net primary productivity (carbon yield, available for human/animal use)
Plant carbon	ha/ha	Plant (biomass) carbon—store of carbon in standing plants
Litter+soil carbon	ha/ha	Litter + soil organic carbon
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser	kg N/ha/yr	Nitrogen input flux from fertilisation (disaggregated from statistical local area totals, distributed proportionally by land use)
Nitrogen fixation	kg N/ha/yr	Nitrogen input flux from legumes (disaggregated from statistical local area totals, distributed proportionally by land use)
Total nitrogen	kg N/ha	Total nitrogen (organic litter + organic soil + mineral)
Mineral nitrogen	ha/ha	Mineral nitrogen
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water	mg N/kg water	Mineral nitrogen concentration in the soil water
Nitrogen leached	kg N/ha/yr	Nitrogen loss flux from leaching
Nitrogen volatilised	kg N/ha/yr	Nitrogen loss flux from volatilisation
Phosphorus from fertiliser	kg P/ha/yr	Phosphorus input flux from fertilisation (disaggregated from statistical local area totals, distributed proportionally by land use)
Total phosphorus	kg P/ha	Total phosphorus (organic litter + organic soil + mineral)
Dissolved mineral	kg P/ha	Dissolved mineral phosphorus readily available to plants phosphorus
Phosphorus concentration	mg P/kg water	Dissolved mineral phosphorus concentration in the soil water
Phosphorus leached	kg P/m2/yr	Phosphorus loss flux from leaching
Water borne erosion and sediment transport
Sediment supplied to rivers	t/yr	Total sediment supplied to streams on an annual basis from to rivers hillslope erosion, bank erosion and gully erosion. For some river basins the area assessed is less than the total basin area.
Sediment supply	t/ha/yr	Average annual rate of sediment supplied to streams from hillslope erosion, bank erosion and gully erosion.
Hillslope erosion	%	Sum of hillslope erosion (t/yr) divided by the total sediment supply value for each basin (t/yr)
Streambank erosion	%	Sum of bank erosion (t/yr) divided by the total sediment supply value for each basin (t/yr)
Gully erosion	%	Sum of gully erosion (t/yr) divided by the total sediment supply value for each basin (t/yr)
Length with riverbed deposition	proportion	Stream length in each basin with deposition greater than 0.30 m divided by the total stream length
European to pre- European sediment	Ratio	Average ratio of sediment supply under present land use conditions to that under natural conditions
Sediment export to coast	t/yr	Sediment export to the coast
Contribution of sediment to coast	t/ha/yr	Specific sediment export to the coast
Sediment delivery	Ratio	River sediment delivery ratio (export/supply to streams)
Nutrients delivered to rivers, floodplains, reservoirs and estuaries
Phosphorus from fine sediment	%	Percentage of average annual total phosphorus load that is delivered to the river network in the basin in association with fine sediments.
Phosphorus from point sources	%	Percentage of average annual total phosphorus load that is delivered to the river network in the basin in dissolved forms from urban sewage and industrial discharges.
Phosphorus - dissolved from diffuse sources	%	Percentage of average annual total phosphorus load that is delivered to the river network in the basin in dissolved forms by surface and subsurface run-off.
Phosphorus deposited on floodplain	%	Percentage of average annual total phosphorus load basin that is deposited with fine sediment on river floodplains in the basin. For internal basins this figure includes the contributions from upstream basins in the budget calculations.
Phosphorus deposited in reservoirs	%	Percentage of average annual total phosphorus load in the basin that is deposited with fine sediment in on-river reservoirs. For internal basins this figure includes the contributions fromupstream basins in the budget calculations.
Phosphorus delivered to estuaries	%	Percentage of average annual total phosphorus load in the basin that is delivered to estuarine or coastal waters (or to a downstream basin in the case of internal basins). For internal basins this figure includes the contributions from upstream basins in the budget calculations.
Phosphorus—total basin export	t P/yr	Average annual export of total phosphorus from the basin in tonnes per year. For internal basins this figure includes the contributions from upstream basins in the budget calculations.
Phosphorus—export rate	kg P/ha/yr	Average annual total phosphorus areal export rate in kilograms per hectare per year. Contributions from upstream basins are not included in the calculation of this figure, and so some internal basins show as net sinks.
Phosphorus load—times pre-European	ratio	Network-link averaged ratio of average annual total phosphorus load between current and pre-disturbance conditions.
Phosphorus—dissolved to total	ratio	Network-link averaged ratio of average annual dissolved phosphorus load to average annual total phosphorus load.
Nitrogen from sediments	%	Percentage of average annual total nitrogen load that is delivered to the river network in the basin in association with fine sediment.
Nitrogen from point sources	%	Percentage of average annual total nitrogen load that is delivered to the river network in the basin in dissolved forms from urban sewage and industrial discharges.
Nitrogen—dissolved from diffuse sources	%	Percentage of average annual total nitrogen load that is delivered to the river network in the basin in dissolved forms by surface and >subsurface run-off.
Nitrogen deposited on floodplain	%	Percentage of average annual total nitrogen load basin that is deposited with fine sediment on river floodplains in the basin. For internal basins this figure includes the contributions from upstream basins in the budget calculations
Nitrogen deposited in reservoirs	%	Percentage of average annual total nitrogen load in the basin that is deposited with fine sediment in on-river reservoirs. For internal basins this figure includes the contributions from upstream basins in the budget calculations
Nitrogen—denitrified	%	Percentage of average annual total nitrogen load in the basin that is lost from the river to the atmosphere by denitrification processes. For internal basins this figure includes the contributions from upstream basins in the budget calculations.
Nitrogen delivered to estuary	%	Percentage of average annual total nitrogen load in the basin that is delivered to estuarine or coastal waters (or to a downstream basin in the case of internal basins). For internal basins this figure includes the contributions from upstream basins in the budget calculations.
Nitrogen—total basin export	t/yr	Average annual export of total nitrogen from the basin in tonnes per year. For internal basins this figure includes the contributions from upstream basins in the budget calculations.
Nitrogen—export rate	kg/ha/yr	Average annual total nitrogen areal export rate in kilograms per hectare per year. Contributions from upstream basins are not included in the calculation of this figure, and so some internal basins show as net sinks.
Nitrogen load—times pre-European	ratio	Network-link averaged ratio of average annual total nitrogen load between current and pre-disturbance conditions.
Nitrogen—dissolved to total	ratio	Network-link averaged ratio of average annual dissolved nitrogen load to average annual total nitrogen load.

Context
Basin number	101	102	103	104	105	106	107	108	109	110	111	112	113	114	115	116	117	118	119	120	121
Basin name	Jacky Jacky Creek	Olive/Pascoe Rivers River	Lockhart River	Stewart River	Normanby River	Jeannie River	Endeavour River	Daintree River	Mossman River	Barron River	Mulgrave-Russell River	Johnstone River	Tully River	Murray River (QLD)	Hinchinbrook Island	Herbert River	Black River	Ross River	Haughton River	Burdekin River
Basin area (km2)	2981	4207	2859	2692	24339	3923	2065	1907	535	2136	1998	2319	1650	1212	400	9854	1141	1394	4357	130138	3574
Improved pasture (%)	0.00	0.18	0.08	0.73	0.01	0.29	0.48	0.47	3.98	6.08	1.57	8.92	0.79	0.98	0.00	0.91	4.43	0.60	0.12	2.02	1.14
Cropping (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.09	0.00	0.00	2.39	2.80	1.10	12.85	17.29	3.65	2.62	0.00	5.11	1.65	0.36	8.09	0.65	0.17
Horticulture (%)	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.09	0.06	3.67	4.06	6.13	2.14	0.83	0.51	0.00	0.23	0.73	31.77	11.82	0.05	0.89
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	0.00	0.18	0.13	0.73	0.09	0.35	0.57	2.92	10.45	11.24	20.55	28.35	5.27	4.11	0.00	6.25	6.81	32.73	20.03	2.71	2.21
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	1655	1687	1580	1255	1085	1306	1733	2384	1852	1311	3141	3217	2739	2239	2206	1194	1366	977	879	596	840
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	839	890	877	730	723	816	982	1188	1073	863	1332	1356	1284	1143	1164	837	923	782	765	549	730
Run-off (mm/yr)	816	797	704	525	361	490	752	1196	779	449	1809	1862	1455	1097	1042	357	443	195	143	48	112
Carbon
Net primary production (tC/ha/yr)	3.4	4.0	5.6	2.9	2.1	3.4	5.7	9.1	7.7	5.0	9.4	9.4	8.9	8.6	8.6	4.5	5.7	2.9	3.2	1.9	2.7
Plant carbon (tC/ha)	58.5	67.5	96.1	50.6	35.5	57.6	97.2	152.5	131.1	84.9	157.1	156.6	148.4	144.3	144.4	77.6	97.1	50.2	54.9	33.7	45.8
Litter+soil carbon (tC/ha)	44.0	52.4	97.0	48.8	31.2	44.2	86.8	167.4	131.1	98.0	216.4	255.5	183.6	155.2	156.4	78.0	88.4	47.5	55.8	41.0	47.8
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.30	2.97	1.42	2.56	4.73	2.50	1.75	0.00	1.78	1.87	0.25	3.55	0.54	0.49
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	11.39	13.18	18.74	9.80	6.97	11.22	19.08	30.20	27.09	20.51	35.76	61.08	29.62	28.64	28.66	17.50	19.04	9.74	10.66	6.79	8.88
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	3799	4503	8407	4217	2688	3806	7427	14070	11210	8574	17360	21210	14880	12950	13290	6742	7622	4104	4838	3489	4129
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	77	85	110	54	49	61	112	224	199	143	276	336	258	242	328	121	157	60	68	46	50
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	33	35	49	33	27	34	45	57	56	46	53	57	52	56	56	45	48	35	39	39	36
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	10	11	12	7	5	8	13	23	18	10	33	35	24	20	20	10	11	5	7	4	5
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	2.28	2.64	3.75	1.96	1.38	2.24	3.82	6.04	5.15	3.33	6.29	6.25	5.92	5.73	5.73	3.02	3.81	1.95	2.13	1.30	1.78
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.10	0.87	0.43	0.65	1.53	0.67	0.53	0.00	0.43	0.09	0.06	0.76	0.07	0.32
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	741	844	1281	653	489	671	1227	2293	1945	1385	2782	3180	2505	2283	2701	1166	1436	661	763	525	614
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	14.1	15.6	20.2	10.0	9.0	11.2	20.7	41.2	36.8	25.7	49.9	56.1	47.5	44.7	60.4	22.0	28.7	10.9	12.7	8.4	9.3
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	6.0	6.4	9.0	6.1	5.0	6.3	8.2	10.6	10.2	8.3	9.7	9.6	9.6	10.3	10.3	8.1	8.8	6.5	7.2	7.0	6.7
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	1.82	1.95	2.20	1.23	0.95	1.51	2.40	4.17	3.24	1.74	5.97	6.10	4.44	3.75	3.66	1.77	2.04	1.00	1.22	0.69	0.88
Erosion & sediment transport
Sediment supplied to rivers (t/yr)	429312	1002222	76457	316955	3898665	499439	608736	112043	18859	256782	283721	389552	148375	32243	1300378	120295	206769	697936	18446498	932904
Sediment supply (t/ha/yr)	2.48	2.60	0.38	1.35	1.60	1.93	3.12	0.72	0.59	1.19	1.71	1.74	0.85	0.45	1.35	1.71	1.81	1.85	1.42	3.09
Proportion from hillslopes (%)	85.13	79.27	22.48	69.65	88.03	93.85	97.36	81.89	77.52	79.31	69.56	64.96	32.73	26.66	74.71	91.87	87.63	81.34	66.67	85.82
Proportion from bank erosion (%)	11.29	18.03	77.25	23.55	3.12	3.86	2.06	17.41	20.85	10.44	28.49	29.26	62.60	65.19	11.75	3.99	3.87	5.49	5.99	3.39
Proportion from gullies (%)	3.58	2.70	0.27	6.79	8.84	2.29	0.58	0.71	1.64	10.25	1.95	5.78	4.67	8.15	13.54	4.14	8.50	13.18	27.34	10.79
Proportion of length with bed deposition > 0.30 m (proportion)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.05	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.00	0.13	0.11	0.04
Sed Ratio (Euro:pre-Euro) (ratio)	52	46	23	10	3	3	5	4	5	8	6	29	6	6	8	3	2	10	15	11
Sediment export to the coast (t/yr)	329832	712764	37137	160798	1620279	355885	486871	94132	15131	145877	222425	305142	88084	17098	664787	82887	58383	172454	2443232	509528
Specific sediment export to the coast (t/ha/yr)	1.91	1.85	0.18	0.69	0.66	1.37	2.49	0.61	0.48	0.68	1.34	1.36	0.51	0.24	0.69	1.18	0.51	0.46	0.19	1.69
River sediment delivery ratio (export/supply to streams) (ratio)	0.77	0.71	0.49	0.51	0.42	0.71	0.80	0.84	0.80	0.57	0.78	0.78	0.59	0.53	0.51	0.69	0.28	0.25	0.13	0.55
River nutrients
Phosphorus from fine sediments (%)	98	97	72	93	97	96	97	84	88	81	87	94	81	66	97	96	96	98	99	99
Phosphorus from point sources (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	9	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Phosphorus - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	2	3	28	7	3	4	3	16	12	3	4	6	19	34	3	4	2	2	1	1
Phosphorus deposited on floodplain (%)	16	19	14	39	49	25	17	4	11	23	5	4	6	8	32	28	26	66	60	41
Phosphorus deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	46	10	22	0
Phosphorus delivered to estuaries (%)	84	81	86	61	51	75	83	96	89	68	95	96	94	92	68	72	28	25	19	59
Phosphorus - total basin export (t P/yr)	223	432	28	49	920	159	228	83	20	168	486	430	72	17	702	54	38	137	2538	372
Phosphorus - export rate (kg P/ha/yr)	0.75	1.03	0.10	0.18	0.38	0.43	1.04	0.38	0.31	0.72	2.41	1.86	0.42	0.15	0.64	0.50	0.29	0.31	0.19	1.02
Phosphorus load - times pre-European (ratio)	5.5	3.4	2.1	4.1	2.4	1.1	2.8	1.4	2.1	3.9	3.7	5.0	1.9	2.1	1.4	2.3	1.3	3.7	5.9	8.0
Phosphorus - dissolved to total (ratio)	19	19	44	11	7	17	20	57	29	16	34	37	65	57	13	8	8	5	3	2
Nitrogen from sediments (%)	91	91	31	70	89	89	88	57	68	76	75	70	52	35	85	88	93	91	91	95
Nitrogen from point sources (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Nitrogen - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	9	9	69	30	11	11	12	43	32	17	20	30	48	65	15	12	7	9	9	5
Nitrogen deposited on floodplain (%)	16	19	6	28	45	24	16	4	9	23	5	4	5	6	28	25	23	61	53	40
Nitrogen deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	39	9	18	0
Nitrogen - denitrified (%)	0	0	3	3	1	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	5	1
Nitrogen delivered to estuary (%)	84	81	91	69	54	76	83	95	90	70	94	96	94	93	71	75	37	29	24	60
Nitrogen - total export (t/yr)	1243	2875	267	295	4988	1207	1370	684	164	718	2121	1998	617	195	3415	409	269	653	10314	1367
Nitrogen - export rate (kg/ha/yr)	4.19	6.88	0.89	1.05	2.04	3.28	6.24	3.12	2.57	3.08	10.52	8.63	3.59	1.67	3.10	3.79	2.06	1.49	0.79	3.73
Nitrogen load - times pre-European (ratio)	3.0	2.4	1.2	2.0	1.9	1.1	2.2	1.3	1.7	2.6	2.5	2.6	1.3	1.4	1.4	2.1	1.4	3.1	3.6	5.5
Nitrogen - dissolved to total (ratio)	28	29	79	43	21	26	30	60	35	26	29	37	66	70	21	16	22	15	18	8

Context
Basin number	122	123	124	125	126	127	128	129	130	131	132	133	134	135	136	137	138	139	140	141	142
Basin name	Proserpine River	Whitsunday Island	O'Connell River	Pioneer River	Plane Creek	Styx River	Shoalwater Creek	Water Park Creek	Fitzroy River (QLD)	Curtis Island	Calliope River	Boyne River	Baffle Creek	Kolan River	Burnett River	Burrum River	Mary River (QLD)	Fraser Island	Noosa River	Maroochy River	Pine River
Basin area (km2)	2592	257	2373	1584	2545	3062	3873	1867	142677	582	2211	2509	4135	2909	33320	3351	9422	1680	1952	1598	1481
Improved pasture (%)	3.26	0.00	4.05	0.11	3.28	1.69	1.26	0.06	9.23	0.00	0.51	0.00	4.67	2.33	2.90	2.54	5.13	0.00	1.12	2.72	0.94
Cropping (%)	6.84	0.00	10.65	19.84	23.52	1.48	0.00	0.00	3.16	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.11	6.26	2.29	8.27	1.68	0.00	0.18	7.70	0.20
Horticulture (%)	0.62	0.00	0.09	0.15	0.00	0.13	0.09	0.61	3.11	27.41	39.60	46.12	0.43	0.67	1.20	3.53	2.86	0.00	7.17	24.53	21.92
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	10.71	0.00	14.80	20.10	26.80	3.30	1.35	0.67	15.50	27.41	40.17	46.12	5.22	9.26	6.39	14.35	9.67	0.00	8.47	34.95	23.05
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	1339	1673	1569	1471	1420	795	846	1219	632	806	806	864	1029	860	690	906	1061	1356	1402	1566	1256
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	980	1098	1083	1066	1049	725	759	953	602	738	747	788	897	797	653	819	880	1007	995	1059	961
Run off (mm/yr)	369	575	494	428	389	70	90	266	30	68	60	77	133	83	40	100	184	350	408	512	295
Carbon
Net primary production (tC/ha/yr)	5.6	6.9	6.5	6.1	5.5	3.4	3.6	5.2	2.9	3.9	4.0	4.9	5.3	4.6	3.7	4.4	6.2	7.6	6.7	7.1	6.1
Plant carbon (tC/ha)	94.6	115.9	109.8	104.6	93.3	58.0	61.6	87.8	51.0	67.4	69.5	85.0	90.4	78.5	67.4	74.6	111.8	128.2	113.5	121.1	113.5
Litter + soil carbon (tC/ha)	93.3	122.2	118.2	106.7	92.2	59.5	60.9	73.6	60.9	74.8	76.5	86.8	85.7	77.0	71.1	65.5	109.8	83.4	86.8	112.8	112.2
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	2.07	0.00	3.71	2.62	4.62	0.51	0.06	0.20	0.79	0.15	0.55	0.31	1.45	0.93	0.79	1.51	1.11	0.00	0.24	4.39	2.07
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	18.56	22.87	21.63	20.42	21.47	14.52	13.99	17.34	14.26	13.08	13.96	16.23	17.91	16.67	15.94	17.97	30.42	25.31	22.45	23.62	20.28
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	7920	10250	10070	9104	7845	5156	5279	6248	5276	6494	6647	7481	7334	6639	6170	5666	9426	6759	7070	9164	9449
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	90	107	128	177	91	61	67	85	63	62	67	71	83	73	73	90	136	115	137	155	130
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	46	49	47	45	43	43	43	44	47	46	46	50	48	48	50	46	57	58	51	51	50
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	11	13	14	14	14	6	6	9	5	6	5	6	7	7	6	8	10	15	13	15	10
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	3.71	4.58	4.33	4.08	3.67	2.25	2.39	3.44	1.94	2.62	2.70	3.25	3.53	3.04	2.46	2.92	4.15	5.06	4.49	4.72	4.06
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	0.71	0.00	1.01	0.42	0.70	0.08	0.02	0.03	0.13	0.01	0.15	0.03	0.36	0.24	0.19	0.48	0.36	0.00	0.08	0.88	0.48
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	1149	1414	1494	1637	1127	751	796	1002	750	871	908	1016	1067	953	898	949	1472	1277	1348	1577	1462
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	16.7	19.8	23.8	32.5	16.4	10.9	12.2	15.7	11.1	11.4	12.3	13.0	15.3	13.4	13.2	16.2	24.0	21.3	25.3	28.7	24.0
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	8.5	9.0	8.7	8.3	7.8	7.7	7.8	8.1	8.2	8.5	8.5	9.3	8.9	8.8	9.0	8.3	10.2	10.7	9.3	9.4	9.3
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	2.06	2.42	2.53	2.61	2.49	1.00	1.07	1.66	0.88	1.02	1.00	1.16	1.38	1.29	1.02	1.46	1.84	2.84	2.36	2.75	1.87
Erosion & sediment transport
Sediment supplied to rivers (t/yr)	360226	476556	394058	170267	311714	121338	11823	16360557	162974	104449	208395	202067	2933214	84291	661576	18546	79989	58966
Sediment supply (t/ha/yr)	1.95	2.41	2.33	1.11	1.24	0.46	0.21	1.15	0.84	0.42	0.61	0.72	0.87	0.29	0.70	0.15	0.74	0.47
Proportion from hillslopes (%)	88.13	88.54	85.76	78.13	78.14	57.32	65.11	62.61	49.75	30.55	64.50	55.36	44.18	52.86	38.54	9.92	51.89	44.62
Proportion from bank erosion (%)	6.96	7.57	10.02	13.25	7.58	17.67	14.14	12.70	16.44	36.59	14.96	18.99	24.12	27.34	44.43	52.02	28.70	33.93
Proportion from gullies (%)	4.91	3.90	4.22	8.62	14.28	25.00	20.75	24.69	33.81	32.86	20.54	25.65	31.70	19.80	17.03	38.07	19.42	21.45
Proportion of length with bed deposition > 0.30 m (proportion)	0.07	0.06	0.00	0.00	0.09	0.19	0.00	0.19	0.15	0.00	0.04	0.11	0.15	0.00	0.11	0.04	0.00	0.00
Sed Ratio (Euro:pre-Euro) (ratio)	31	45	28	46	31	12	27	21	35	8	29	36	96	36	18	15	28	40
Sediment export to the coast (t/yr)	227314	366309	288343	114860	136011	45166	7940	2635482	60772	16974	103376	61589	728607	33624	266713	7288	45525	20687
Specific sediment export to the coast (t/ha/yr)	1.23	1.85	1.71	0.75	0.54	0.17	0.14	0.18	0.31	0.07	0.30	0.22	0.22	0.11	0.28	0.06	0.42	0.16
River sediment delivery ratio (export/supply to streams) (ratio)	0.63	0.77	0.73	0.67	0.44	0.37	0.67	0.16	0.37	0.16	0.50	0.30	0.25	0.40	0.40	0.39	0.57	0.35
River nutrients
Phosphorus from fine sediments (%)	97	96	77	91	98	93	70	98	96	90	92	94	95	84	85	47	42	83
Phosphorus from point sources (%)	0	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	6	0	53	0
Phosphorus - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	3	4	3	9	2	7	30	2	4	10	8	6	3	16	9	53	6	17
Phosphorus deposited on floodplain (%)	31	17	17	21	53	47	12	74	48	21	39	33	63	37	37	15	14	15
Phosphorus deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	45	0	26	15	5	1	0	2	29
Phosphorus delivered to estuaries (%)	69	83	83	79	47	53	88	18	52	34	61	41	22	58	62	85	84	56
Phosphorus - total basin export (t P/yr)	185	221	276	67	109	45	6	2002	56	19	68	48	429	31	229	9	93	17
Phosphorus - export rate (kg P/ha/yr)	0.74	0.89	1.60	0.26	0.35	0.12	0.03	0.14	0.25	0.07	0.16	0.16	0.13	0.09	0.25	0.04	0.57	0.11
Phosphorus load - times pre-European (ratio)	10.7	10.3	7.6	8.8	14.4	2.4	2.7	6.9	7.8	2.3	5.0	6.2	6.3	2.8	3.1	1.3	5.1	2.9
Phosphorus - dissolved to total (ratio)	8	6	10	13	4	30	41	5	8	25	15	15	8	33	23	66	35	30
Nitrogen from sediments (%)	82	86	84	64	87	63	30	86	78	60	72	76	82	50	68	15	55	61
Nitrogen from point sources (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	14	0
Nitrogen - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	18	14	16	36	13	37	70	14	22	40	28	24	18	50	32	85	32	39
Nitrogen deposited on floodplain (%)	28	17	18	16	45	32	6	66	42	17	29	27	54	21	28	5	12	11
Nitrogen deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	32	0	22	12	4	1	0	2	23
Nitrogen - denitrified (%)	1	1	2	1	2	4	3	5	3	5	2	3	6	6	4	4	2	2
Nitrogen delivered to estuary (%)	71	82	80	83	53	64	91	22	55	47	69	48	28	69	68	91	84	63
Nitrogen - total export (t/yr)	637	1277	1073	401	463	220	57	8831	207	147	499	294	2397	262	1638	125	364	179
Nitrogen - export rate (kg/ha/yr)	2.53	5.16	6.22	1.57	1.50	0.59	0.31	0.62	0.92	0.58	1.20	1.00	0.72	0.78	1.76	0.58	2.24	1.17
Nitrogen load - times pre-European (ratio)	4.2	5.3	3.6	3.2	5.0	1.6	1.6	3.3	2.9	1.5	2.4	2.8	3.0	1.8	1.8	1.1	2.3	1.8
Nitrogen - dissolved to total (ratio)	20	15	24	34	18	58	63	25	32	56	39	34	32	59	51	86	51	55

Context
Basin number	143	144	145	146	201	202	203	204	205	206	207	208	209	210	211	212	213	214	215	216	217
Basin name	Brisbane River	Stradbroke Island	Logan-Albert River	South Coast	Tweed River	Brunswick River	Richmond River	Clarence River	Bellinger River	Macleay River	Hastings River	Manning River	Karuah River	Hunter River	Macquarie-Tuggerah Lakes	Hawkesbury River	Sydney Coast - Georges River	Wollongong Coast	Shoalhaven River	Clyde River - Jervis Bay	Moruya River
Basin area (km2)	13572	499	4141	1349	1077	508	7020	22284	3461	11396	4530	8174	4375	21454	1575	21956	1742	794	7208	3269	1482
Improved pasture (%)	2.02	0.22	2.48	0.31	0.10	0.88	1.37	3.47	1.43	13.58	0.76	2.69	1.49	5.72	0.31	5.73	0.34	1.35	9.35	0.62	3.46
Cropping (%)	1.37	0.00	1.77	2.43	7.88	3.02	3.14	0.99	0.05	0.48	0.04	0.09	0.00	1.86	0.00	0.43	0.00	0.00	0.50	0.04	0.00
Horticulture (%)	12.91	21.09	11.24	24.64	14.80	26.86	5.34	0.63	10.44	0.19	2.87	3.32	5.14	4.51	33.71	12.87	8.20	21.72	3.80	0.96	0.05
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	16.30	21.31	15.49	27.38	22.78	30.75	9.86	5.09	11.92	14.26	3.67	6.10	6.63	12.09	34.01	19.03	8.54	23.07	13.65	1.62	3.51
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	922	1555	1055	1551	1846	1879	1334	1111	1517	980	1352	1079	1151	784	1156	903	1053	1329	876	1062	906
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	800	1000	862	1043	1105	1131	947	854	993	780	940	826	805	671	847	705	778	866	655	755	694
Run off (mm/yr)	129	555	199	509	742	752	390	257	525	201	413	254	347	118	309	199	277	464	221	307	212
Carbon
Net primary production (tC/ha/yr)	5.5	4.4	5.8	6.9	8.8	8.0	6.8	7.0	8.6	6.7	8.2	7.9	7.1	5.4	7.1	6.1	4.1	6.3	6.4	7.5	7.0
Plant carbon (tC/ha)	113.0	75.0	125.1	144.1	192.6	147.2	138.2	213.3	213.1	255.0	230.7	277.5	168.4	160.8	169.8	224.1	102.1	178.3	268.2	255.6	275.9
Litter + soil carbon (tC/ha)	103.4	50.9	147.1	177.8	256.4	195.6	161.4	208.8	206.5	235.3	256.5	289.4	162.2	159.7	145.5	189.9	86.6	202.0	235.5	240.6	288.1
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	2.79	0.55	2.53	1.13	4.46	2.85	1.74	0.67	0.93	1.47	0.31	0.48	0.29	1.03	1.24	0.62	0.69	1.31	0.73	0.40	0.08
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	23.58	14.81	21.59	23.08	29.41	28.28	33.43	35.81	35.54	56.20	30.34	37.10	28.95	35.66	24.76	36.77	14.09	26.32	48.81	27.56	34.91
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	8868	3978	12610	14660	20900	16000	13610	17660	16450	19780	21120	24460	13570	13740	11970	15930	7189	16630	19890	20150	24560
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	103	75	130	161	226	213	167	226	192	180	234	285	181	155	172	185	115	209	193	203	196
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	57	35	55	52	61	55	59	68	68	78	68	77	65	69	65	74	45	58	85	78	81
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	9	11	9	13	19	16	13	12	17	13	15	13	12	9	12	11	8	12	12	13	11
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	3.68	2.96	3.86	4.62	5.85	5.35	4.57	4.68	5.76	4.49	5.46	5.30	4.71	3.60	4.70	4.08	2.74	4.17	4.25	5.03	4.65
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	0.59	0.35	0.32	0.17	0.67	1.66	0.86	0.71	0.65	1.87	0.53	0.80	0.40	0.99	1.05	0.80	0.40	1.15	1.15	0.42	0.38
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	1309	776	1702	2029	2855	2362	1948	2709	2464	2667	3026	3592	2104	1964	1974	2400	1228	2484	2810	2867	3139
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	18.4	13.9	23.7	29.6	41.6	39.6	30.1	40.6	34.8	29.9	43.2	51.3	33.0	26.8	32.1	32.2	21.3	38.1	33.0	37.3	34.8
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	10.2	6.5	9.9	9.5	11.3	10.3	10.5	12.0	12.4	13.0	12.5	13.9	11.9	11.9	12.2	12.7	8.3	10.7	14.3	14.3	14.4
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	1.62	1.98	1.62	2.41	3.47	3.05	2.25	2.13	3.14	2.12	2.75	2.35	2.20	1.57	2.23	1.88	1.39	2.23	2.05	2.44	1.97
Erosion & sediment transport
Sediment supplied to rivers (t/yr)	1267692	476644	46868	92042	3162	561570	1719721	143423	1028976	189596	533797	175415	2950924	37218	1125630	37449	21043	407591	88581	60453
Sediment supply (t/ha/yr)	0.93	1.18	0.42	0.87	0.24	0.83	0.78	0.47	0.90	0.45	0.67	0.48	1.40	0.27	0.52	0.25	0.43	0.57	0.33	0.40
Proportion from hillslopes (%)	54.26	57.86	20.81	52.91	49.17	41.88	24.55	7.05	29.67	6.53	14.53	15.73	33.42	10.70	21.46	6.54	12.34	13.88	4.72	14.32
Proportion from bank erosion (%)	26.07	24.52	53.78	40.72	35.21	41.33	43.64	64.65	29.48	69.70	46.64	40.00	20.35	30.35	28.47	53.04	20.93	26.04	27.69	19.47
Proportion from gullies (%)	19.67	17.62	25.41	6.36	15.62	16.79	31.81	28.30	40.84	23.77	38.83	44.27	46.23	58.95	50.07	40.42	66.73	60.08	67.59	66.21
Proportion of length with bed deposition > 0.30 m (proportion)	0.07	0.19	0.00	0.25	0.00	0.13	0.07	0.08	0.13	0.09	0.03	0.15	0.33	0.32	0.08	0.09	0.00	0.10	0.18	0.10
Sed Ratio (Euro:pre-Euro) (ratio)	37	35	10	16	5	32	198	101	65	332	56	161	630	111	211	323	3	27	20	44
Sediment export to the coast (t/yr)	247194	189138	20641	58498	2158	240825	683379	61591	345455	83255	224159	72363	743606	13915	233011	11226	8904	135530	34173	24362
Specific sediment export to the coast (t/ha/yr)	0.18	0.47	0.19	0.55	0.16	0.36	0.31	0.20	0.30	0.20	0.28	0.20	0.35	0.10	0.11	0.07	0.18	0.19	0.13	0.16
River sediment delivery ratio (export/supply to streams) (ratio)	0.19	0.40	0.44	0.64	0.68	0.43	0.40	0.43	0.34	0.44	0.42	0.41	0.25	0.37	0.21	0.30	0.42	0.33	0.39	0.40
River nutrients
Phosphorus from fine sediments (%)	71	65	20	86	73	90	89	68	91	71	83	79	97	70	78	72	72	78	66	82
Phosphorus from point sources (%)	25	32	75	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	9	0	0
Phosphorus - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	4	3	5	14	27	9	11	32	9	29	17	21	3	30	11	28	28	13	34	18
Phosphorus deposited on floodplain (%)	25	41	11	14	4	30	28	14	39	13	19	23	49	23	27	35	7	30	21	27
Phosphorus deposited in reservoirs (%)	19	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	0	26	0	12	0	0	0
Phosphorus delivered to estuaries (%)	56	56	87	86	96	70	72	86	59	87	81	77	46	77	47	65	81	70	79	73
Phosphorus - total basin export (t P/yr)	685	265	93	46	3	235	624	54	319	71	176	60	891	15	344	10	7	161	30	23
Phosphorus - export rate (kg P/ha/yr)	0.50	0.64	0.67	0.42	0.06	0.33	0.28	0.15	0.28	0.16	0.22	0.13	0.42	0.09	0.16	0.05	0.09	0.23	0.09	0.15
Phosphorus load - times pre-European (ratio)	5.3	4.7	1.4	1.8	2.1	2.9	3.8	2.4	4.8	2.4	2.7	3.1	4.6	2.4	2.4	2.3	1.3	2.6	1.7	3.4
Phosphorus - dissolved to total (ratio)	17	16	47	40	56	21	20	40	13	41	20	29	9	33	26	35	35	20	33	18
Nitrogen from sediments (%)	69	78	24	71	43	75	67	34	76	33	55	50	83	36	55	40	41	57	29	48
Nitrogen from point sources (%)	15	8	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	2	0	0
Nitrogen - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	16	13	28	29	57	25	33	66	24	67	45	50	17	64	34	60	59	41	71	52
Nitrogen deposited on floodplain (%)	18	39	5	11	4	26	21	7	33	6	12	16	41	11	17	19	4	20	8	15
Nitrogen deposited in reservoirs (%)	27	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	0	19	0	6	0	0	0
Nitrogen - denitrified (%)	3	2	2	1	1	2	3	3	3	4	4	3	3	3	6	5	2	4	4	4
Nitrogen delivered to estuary (%)	52	59	91	88	96	73	76	90	63	91	84	81	50	85	59	76	88	77	88	81
Nitrogen - total export (t/yr)	3162	1251	397	499	35	1941	4799	599	2944	686	1546	571	4444	162	3234	114	82	1256	348	205
Nitrogen - export rate (kg/ha/yr)	2.33	3.01	2.89	4.58	0.64	2.77	2.16	1.69	2.59	1.52	1.89	1.29	2.07	1.02	1.47	0.64	1.00	1.75	1.03	1.35
Nitrogen load - times pre-European (ratio)	2.7	3.2	1.5	1.4	1.5	2.3	2.0	1.4	3.1	1.3	1.7	1.6	2.7	1.4	1.7	1.4	1.0	1.7	1.2	1.7
Nitrogen - dissolved to total (ratio)	37	33	75	55	59	37	49	71	31	76	59	59	33	70	59	68	68	56	78	57

Context
Basin number	218	219	220	221	222	223	224	225	226	227	228	229	230	231	232	233	234	235	236	237	238
Basin name	Tuross River	Bega River	Towamba River	East Gippsland	Snowy River	Tambo River	Mitchell River	Thomson River	Latrobe River	South gippsland	Bunyip River	Yarra River	Maribyrnong River	Werribee River	Moorabool River	Barwon River	Lake Corangamite	Otway Coast	Hopkins River	Portland Coast	Glenelg River
Basin area (km2)	2166	2838	2193	5648	15772	4217	4866	6413	4681	6777	4077	4118	1456	1970	2229	3798	4087	3879	10079	3957	12128
Improved pasture (%)	6.43	2.36	0.72	0.50	9.26	4.02	3.29	6.94	22.11	33.89	15.58	4.97	18.41	12.98	28.92	26.60	34.43	28.46	34.99	41.45	38.51
Cropping (%)	0.37	0.19	0.00	0.00	0.46	0.00	0.19	0.26	0.39	0.13	0.31	0.02	1.00	5.66	5.28	4.20	8.08	0.20	6.37	1.14	1.80
Horticulture (%)	0.73	6.52	0.89	0.95	1.57	4.81	1.29	0.10	11.36	0.72	28.21	25.41	20.42	13.50	12.29	6.90	1.73	2.55	6.10	9.87	0.23
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	7.53	9.07	1.61	1.45	11.28	8.82	4.77	7.30	33.86	34.74	44.09	30.41	39.83	32.14	46.49	37.71	44.24	31.21	47.46	52.46	40.54
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	887	871	879	960	821	774	984	873	958	898	908	1049	681	641	610	666	640	1019	644	726	664
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	681	672	660	662	567	571	587	555	576	546	562	588	466	464	457	452	426	534	432	441	410
Run off (mm/yr)	207	204	220	298	253	203	397	327	387	354	351	462	214	179	153	214	217	486	212	285	256
Carbon
Net primary production (tC/ha/yr)	6.9	6.7	6.9	7.9	5.8	6.9	6.7	6.5	6.6	6.0	5.2	5.9	3.9	4.2	3.9	4.0	3.6	5.8	3.7	4.2	3.9
Plant carbon (tC/ha)	295.7	275.0	282.6	324.3	348.4	347.5	423.5	369.0	312.0	256.4	205.9	280.1	193.2	203.0	177.9	170.4	154.5	249.3	163.9	173.2	166.7
Litter + soil carbon (tC/ha)	310.4	295.9	284.4	322.1	368.0	338.2	420.2	358.3	335.1	234.1	215.8	298.3	221.7	209.7	175.3	158.6	150.3	214.1	160.0	154.4	164.7
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	0.47	1.58	0.24	0.03	0.25	0.08	0.14	1.41	2.04	1.72	2.65	0.66	0.23	1.92	1.81	1.42	2.33	3.04	1.66	0.89	0.57
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	47.08	30.65	25.67	28.25	44.33	23.88	22.40	33.67	45.20	48.82	17.34	19.79	41.76	20.96	49.58	26.82	19.64	19.48	29.55	52.04	44.14
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	26580	25280	24030	27500	31380	29040	35440	30540	28820	20230	18620	25370	19470	18180	15160	13620	13020	17750	13840	13380	14360
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	211	193	184	276	212	204	235	226	255	232	162	201	161	134	127	116	119	158	117	142	153
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	87	81	82	91	88	93	87	95	97	98	72	77	85	79	90	80	76	83	87	96	97
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	12	11	11	13	11	11	14	13	14	14	11	13	9	9	9	9	9	14	10	12	11
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	4.60	4.49	4.61	5.24	3.86	4.57	4.48	4.36	4.43	4.02	3.46	3.96	2.63	2.78	2.60	2.64	2.40	3.86	2.46	2.77	2.61
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	0.65	1.30	0.33	0.06	0.58	0.47	0.35	1.92	3.85	4.74	3.77	0.94	0.84	1.52	2.28	2.29	4.06	4.35	3.89	4.39	2.66
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	3352	3197	3096	3912	3833	3747	4541	4027	3929	3095	2550	3326	2390	2327	1944	1850	1850	2583	1894	1932	2009
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	35.7	35.3	33.8	50.7	35.6	37.9	43.6	41.4	47.5	43.3	32.7	37.7	25.3	24.5	20.0	21.0	24.1	32.1	22.3	24.2	24.8
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	14.7	14.7	15.1	16.8	14.7	17.2	16.2	17.2	17.5	17.5	14.5	14.5	13.5	14.5	14.4	14.6	15.1	17.0	16.0	16.4	16.0
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	2.05	1.97	1.94	2.47	1.90	1.99	2.50	2.41	2.61	2.57	2.12	2.46	1.42	1.59	1.48	1.62	1.76	2.72	1.75	1.97	1.80
Erosion & sediment transport
Sediment supplied to rivers (t/yr)	70126	125308	67504	64810	813701	59536	70209	114798	123369	104425	64453	133746	75049	53505	71993	114202	53076	54651	444368	63559	700985
Sediment supply (t/ha/yr)	0.37	0.50	0.40	0.13	0.53	0.14	0.15	0.18	0.24	0.22	0.24	0.33	0.52	0.29	0.37	0.35	0.26	0.18	0.50	0.18	0.60
Proportion from hillslopes (%)	6.54	8.52	4.22	6.05	20.58	9.23	11.11	6.08	5.93	15.23	6.33	2.78	8.09	23.10	12.47	7.49	7.91	11.30	2.86	4.30	2.20
Proportion from bank erosion (%)	21.59	30.54	29.43	47.37	26.34	59.12	85.42	80.88	92.44	84.77	82.66	78.25	57.09	45.98	39.16	59.40	40.50	82.21	43.97	78.83	29.92
Proportion from gullies (%)	71.87	60.94	66.35	46.57	53.08	31.65	3.47	13.04	1.63	0.00	11.02	18.97	34.82	30.92	48.37	33.11	51.59	6.48	53.17	16.87	67.88
Proportion of length with bed deposition > 0.30 m (proportion)	0.13	0.12	0.04	0.01	0.04	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.08	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.13	0.12	0.09	0.22	0.04	0.38
Sed Ratio (Euro:pre-Euro) (ratio)	41	191	48	36	16	19	3	108	5	15	>1,000	7	10	9	70	35	53	16	198	>1,000	309
Sediment export to the coast (t/yr)	23959	40908	26302	25818	303309	18114	25330	23583	31953	41644	21882	37091	26644	8885	16766	23601	0	22950	64382	19143	147721
Specific sediment export to the coast (t/ha/yr)	0.13	0.16	0.15	0.05	0.20	0.04	0.05	0.04	0.06	0.09	0.08	0.09	0.19	0.05	0.09	0.07	0.00	0.08	0.07	0.05	0.13
River sediment delivery ratio (export/supply to streams) (ratio)	0.34	0.33	0.39	0.40	0.37	0.30	0.36	0.21	0.26	0.40	0.34	0.28	0.36	0.17	0.23	0.21	0.00	0.42	0.14	0.30	0.21
River nutrients
Phosphorus from fine sediments (%)	74	79	72	40	85	50	45	47	42	53	56	62	85	73	78	74	67	51	79	57	81
Phosphorus from point sources (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Phosphorus - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	26	21	28	60	15	50	55	53	51	47	44	38	15	27	22	26	33	49	21	43	19
Phosphorus deposited on floodplain (%)	31	30	22	15	35	42	24	37	81	22	27	35	35	30	33	60	54	20	63	30	51
Phosphorus deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	15	3	0	0	0	0	35	10	0	0	0	0	0	3
Phosphorus delivered to estuaries (%)	69	64	78	85	65	58	76	48	16	78	73	65	65	35	57	40	46	80	37	70	46
Phosphorus - total basin export (t P/yr)	21	30	19	35	250	19	33	28	8	40	22	35	17	8	15	17	10	27	55	22	102
Phosphorus - export rate (kg P/ha/yr)	0.10	0.10	0.09	0.06	0.16	0.33	0.03	0.05	0.01	0.06	0.05	0.06	0.12	0.04	0.14	0.03	0.03	0.07	0.05	0.06	0.07
Phosphorus load - times pre-European (ratio)	2.2	2.7	2.5	1.3	2.1	1.3	1.0	1.1	1.3	1.5	1.3	1.3	2.0	1.1	1.6	1.9	1.9	1.5	2.3	1.8	2.1
Phosphorus - dissolved to total (ratio)	20	19	19	55	30	51	63	58	43	38	43	45	22	23	22	28	23	44	20	31	21
Nitrogen from sediments (%)	35	44	36	14	54	21	19	19	16	27	26	25	32	47	44	41	33	28	44	20	44
Nitrogen from point sources (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	7	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nitrogen - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	65	56	64	86	46	79	81	81	74	73	74	68	30	53	56	59	67	72	56	80	56
Nitrogen deposited on floodplain (%)	12	15	9	3	20	11	7	8	14	8	10	11	12	16	17	28	22	7	32	8	24
Nitrogen deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	20	4	0	0	0	0	0	1
Nitrogen - denitrified (%)	7	4	5	5	5	12	9	9	23	6	5	5	10	9	9	10	13	4	11	8	10
Nitrogen delivered to estuary (%)	81	78	86	91	75	76	85	80	62	86	86	84	78	56	71	62	65	89	57	84	65
Nitrogen - total export (t/yr)	229	305	202	571	2230	347	552	670	457	615	296	541	271	136	187	245	151	408	672	337	1174
Nitrogen - export rate (kg/ha/yr)	1.05	1.06	0.90	1.01	1.42	5.86	0.48	1.13	0.54	0.93	0.75	0.97	1.87	0.64	1.84	0.47	0.38	1.05	0.67	0.83	0.86
Nitrogen load - times pre-European (ratio)	1.5	1.5	1.4	1.1	1.6	1.1	1.0	1.1	1.2	1.4	1.2	1.1	1.7	1.4	2.0	1.5	1.8	1.2	1.9	1.5	1.7
Nitrogen - dissolved to total (ratio)	69	64	67	89	59	87	90	90	89	78	84	86	68	70	66	68	71	75	64	81	65

Context
Basin number	239	301	302	303	304	305	306	307	308	309	310	311	312	313	314	315	316	317	318	319	401
Basin name	Millicent Coast	Flinders Cape Barren Island	East Coast	Coal River	Derwent River	Kingston Coast	Huon River	South-West Coast	Gordon River	King-Henty Rivers	Pieman River	Sandy Cape Coast	Arthur River	King Island	Smithton-Burnie Coast	Forth River	Mersey River	Rubicon River	Tamar River	Piper-Ringarooma Rivers	Upper Murray River
Basin area (km2)	34346	2005	6945	684	9832	746	3008	5488	5917	1796	4156	874	2498	1086	4660	1129	1968	678	11344	3549	15338
Improved pasture (%)	41.34	12.18	9.93	17.56	11.70	8.51	2.26	0.16	0.00	0.11	0.08	0.60	0.93	34.18	18.40	2.65	19.04	15.39	21.51	15.57	7.60
Cropping (%)	9.00	0.14	0.54	0.98	0.65	0.16	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.34	0.43	0.98	1.16	2.35	0.10	0.67
Horticulture (%)	2.67	0.05	0.68	5.61	1.61	11.64	5.59	0.57	0.00	0.11	1.14	0.00	1.23	0.44	9.54	13.31	7.66	12.50	2.56	3.67	0.11
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	53.01	12.37	11.15	24.15	13.96	20.31	7.85	0.73	0.00	0.21	1.22	0.60	2.18	34.62	28.29	16.39	27.68	29.04	26.42	19.34	8.39
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	533	703	742	560	1005	874	1497	2035	2325	2509	2148	1627	1694	926	1250	1905	1407	881	803	918	1119
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	352	474	492	406	469	507	584	633	663	688	658	598	607	472	541	624	571	480	459	505	615
Run off (mm/yr)	186	229	250	154	537	367	914	1401	1662	1821	1490	1029	1087	454	713	1287	850	411	347	416	505
Carbon
Net primary production (tC/ha/yr)	2.8	4.1	5.3	3.8	4.3	4.9	4.6	3.5	4.1	4.3	4.4	4.3	5.5	5.1	6.1	5.7	6.3	6.4	5.3	6.1	6.2
Plant carbon (tC/ha)	102.6	172.8	281.0	226.6	342.0	278.9	320.6	228.4	293.8	279.9	310.2	228.4	335.1	219.2	334.8	445.2	430.5	334.4	350.3	315.5	378.7
Litter + soil carbon (tC/ha)	115.1	128.4	262.5	201.1	357.4	258.0	350.9	242.3	367.0	483.3	452.5	200.2	402.0	146.3	368.2	548.2	516.1	318.9	357.2	318.6	370.0
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	1.03	0.04	0.44	0.33	0.61	0.50	0.11	0.01	0.00	0.19	0.07	0.04	0.12	0.43	2.77	1.53	3.53	4.44	1.37	1.15	0.34
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	65.48	13.78	40.11	19.62	15.49	17.60	20.77	12.10	13.60	14.43	14.65	16.20	21.29	16.97	67.17	24.23	82.70	58.71	61.11	28.12	31.91
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	9954	11020	22610	17280	29500	21420	26620	16680	25960	36330	34890	15570	33010	12350	31850	42640	43300	27940	30900	27610	31000
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	149	123	210	112	188	132	173	159	206	240	249	171	318	156	348	268	359	254	250	226	211
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	114	70	95	81	72	76	64	43	45	47	50	55	69	82	105	71	110	118	114	95	81
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	12	9	11	7	11	10	14	16	19	18	17	16	18	14	21	20	21	17	14	14	14
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	1.89	2.76	3.55	2.56	2.88	3.28	3.07	2.34	2.72	2.89	2.93	2.88	3.70	3.39	4.09	3.79	4.19	4.26	3.56	4.06	4.15
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	2.45	1.05	1.60	1.16	1.96	1.44	0.26	0.02	0.00	0.37	0.13	0.11	0.33	5.69	6.11	1.88	6.28	8.56	3.73	3.52	0.77
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	1433	1764	3116	2233	3733	2710	3345	2428	3466	4283	4258	2359	4489	2211	4537	5264	5516	3972	4051	3787	3975
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	19.8	23.5	36.1	20.3	35.9	25.2	31.1	29.0	37.6	44.0	45.6	31.0	58.3	33.3	60.8	50.0	59.8	48.6	42.1	43.3	37.8
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	15.1	13.3	16.3	14.8	14.2	14.5	11.3	7.7	8.2	8.6	9.2	10.1	12.7	17.5	18.2	13.3	18.2	22.4	18.6	18.4	14.4
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	1.54	1.65	1.90	1.31	2.07	1.91	2.46	2.82	3.40	3.33	3.12	2.96	3.24	3.10	3.56	3.64	3.57	3.26	2.41	2.68	2.57
Erosion & sediment transport
Sediment supplied to rivers (t/yr)	57265	87713	32163	351478	1099	112375	193822	276625	8337	37039	5570	38779	70736	16957	106546	15023	463606	85848	726767
Sediment supply (t/ha/yr)	0.16	0.20	0.55	0.37	0.09	0.38	0.55	0.52	0.05	0.09	0.31	0.16	0.21	0.15	0.56	0.34	0.42	0.28	0.45
Proportion from hillslopes (%)	3.89	24.46	34.08	13.13	31.92	6.99	4.63	1.93	24.00	12.04	0.62	4.19	6.09	12.18	5.89	2.62	8.74	4.56	22.93
Proportion from bank erosion (%)	81.53	35.29	22.78	64.98	36.04	82.20	95.33	94.78	75.74	86.21	99.38	93.52	86.23	49.40	56.12	36.62	70.30	48.75	45.49
Proportion from gullies (%)	14.58	40.24	43.14	21.89	32.04	10.81	0.04	3.29	0.26	1.75	0.00	2.29	7.68	38.41	37.99	60.75	20.96	46.68	31.58
Proportion of length with bed deposition > 0.30 m (proportion)	0.06	0.01	0.09	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.07	0.00	0.03
Sed Ratio (Euro:pre-Euro) (ratio)	77	5	11	47	3	16	9	186	96	138	102	36	27	1	6	12	6	7	8
Sediment export to the coast (t/yr)	0	44400	15544	149437	727	57413	99086	127593	4903	16698	2712	19726	34941	6339	51007	7020	195373	39746	2783
Specific sediment export to the coast (t/ha/yr)	0.00	0.10	0.27	0.16	0.06	0.19	0.28	0.24	0.03	0.04	0.15	0.08	0.10	0.06	0.27	0.16	0.18	0.13	0.00
River sediment delivery ratio (export/supply to streams) (ratio)	0.00	0.51	0.48	0.43	0.66	0.51	0.51	0.46	0.59	0.45	0.49	0.51	0.49	0.37	0.48	0.47	0.42	0.46	0.00
River nutrients
Phosphorus from fine sediments (%)	54	67	89	68	41	73	77	69	57	46	55	46	48	52	63	58	53	47	78
Phosphorus from point sources (%)	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	11	0	31	18	0
Phosphorus - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	46	33	11	20	59	27	23	31	43	49	45	54	52	48	26	42	17	35	22
Phosphorus deposited on floodplain (%)	48	13	26	7	0	1	1	4	4	0	1	1	2	0	3	5	11	6	11
Phosphorus deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	6	1	0	1	0	71
Phosphorus delivered to estuaries (%)	52	87	74	85	100	99	99	94	96	99	99	99	98	94	96	95	88	94	18
Phosphorus - total basin export (t P/yr)	14	46	11	169	1	52	90	117	24	49	3	30	47	16	49	6	277	45	70
Phosphorus - export rate (kg P/ha/yr)	0.00	0.07	0.15	0.17	0.02	0.15	0.16	0.21	0.13	0.12	0.03	0.12	0.11	0.14	0.25	0.10	0.24	0.13	0.05
Phosphorus load - times pre-European (ratio)	1.7	1.4	4.4	1.4	1.3	1.7	1.3	0.8	2.1	1.5	1.9	1.3	1.4	0.6	0.8	1.8	1.6	1.9	1.2
Phosphorus - dissolved to total (ratio)	24	42	10	59	63	72	68	75	74	97	72	89	69	93	73	40	37	48	41
Nitrogen from sediments (%)	17	35	74	43	23	37	39	29	20	17	19	17	15	18	29	21	33	25	51
Nitrogen from point sources (%)	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	4	0	14	0	0
Nitrogen - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	83	65	26	50	77	63	61	71	80	83	81	83	80	82	66	79	53	75	49
Nitrogen deposited on floodplain (%)	10	6	20	5	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	7	3	6
Nitrogen deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	5	0	8	0	0	0	9	2	0	1	0	42
Nitrogen - denitrified (%)	16	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	4	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2
Nitrogen delivered to estuary (%)	74	92	79	88	99	99	98	91	94	91	99	99	98	90	96	97	91	95	51
Nitrogen - total export (t/yr)	301	565	105	1435	15	478	750	1075	280	581	32	421	715	189	469	80	2182	443	1920
Nitrogen - export rate (kg/ha/yr)	0.10	0.82	1.50	1.47	0.36	1.42	1.37	1.92	1.55	1.38	0.37	1.68	1.60	1.68	2.34	1.21	1.92	1.24	1.32
Nitrogen load - times pre-European (ratio)	2.0	1.3	2.7	1.2	1.1	1.3	1.2	0.9	1.2	1.1	1.2	1.1	1.3	0.9	0.9	1.4	1.5	1.2	1.2
Nitrogen - dissolved to total (ratio)	83	65	27	72	77	72	65	87	82	89	82	81	82	90	80	77	66	75	70

Context
Basin number	402	403	404	405	406	407	408	409	410	411	412	413	414	415	416	417	418	419	420	421	422
Basin name	Kiewa River	Ovens River	Broken River	Goulburn River	Campaspe River	Loddon River	Avoca River	Murray-Riverina	Murrumbidgee River	Lake George	Lachlan River	Benanee	Mallee	Wimmera-Avon Rivers	Border River	Moonie River	Gwydir River	Namoi River	Castlereagh River	Macquarie-Bogan Rivers	Condamine-Culgoa Rivers
Basin area (km2)	1916	7986	7091	16853	4057	15648	14192	15055	81646	945	90863	21349	41494	30369	48034	14335	26588	42004	17411	74803	162602
Improved pasture (%)	13.87	13.85	31.60	22.75	29.68	28.57	16.52	11.13	9.44	13.98	10.57	0.28	6.49	14.59	3.58	1.67	4.72	5.89	6.91	10.60	3.22
Cropping (%)	0.00	3.26	11.33	3.26	7.90	13.22	30.41	17.34	14.99	1.36	11.72	1.61	17.04	28.38	16.10	12.58	17.24	11.49	12.77	13.98	6.09
Horticulture (%)	0.40	1.01	3.38	2.79	4.73	4.31	7.31	1.67	1.48	0.06	0.62	0.30	1.74	9.81	2.57	0.33	3.70	2.49	0.32	1.18	1.05
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	14.26	18.12	46.30	28.79	42.31	46.10	54.24	30.14	25.91	15.40	22.91	2.19	25.27	52.78	22.24	14.58	25.67	19.87	19.99	25.76	10.35
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	1232	1027	605	849	600	475	365	399	565	718	482	285	306	408	667	566	662	659	576	548	514
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	622	569	469	509	427	412	322	398	454	478	424	274	276	319	628	547	617	598	527	495	496
Run off (mm/yr)	612	463	189	367	200	118	59	59	129	240	62	12	34	89	48	21	58	71	49	57	20
Carbon
Net primary production (tC/ha/yr)	5.9	5.3	3.8	4.8	3.4	3.0	2.0	2.8	3.4	3.3	2.6	1.2	1.5	2.1	3.5	2.5	3.4	3.6	2.9	2.9	2.1
Plant carbon (tC/ha)	321.0	260.9	141.1	233.7	144.8	109.3	63.7	84.8	138.3	167.1	81.2	31.2	42.3	76.5	88.0	43.2	92.9	100.9	72.2	86.2	39.8
Litter + soil carbon (tC/ha)	332.6	261.2	157.1	239.8	160.3	139.4	89.9	121.4	152.3	153.7	96.6	62.8	64.7	112.6	97.7	55.2	105.3	113.8	97.1	100.0	52.2
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	0.46	0.43	3.32	1.11	1.10	1.19	2.23	3.19	3.04	0.61	1.82	0.42	1.10	2.44	3.26	2.64	3.29	2.78	1.43	1.66	1.50
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	24.93	21.06	23.52	36.97	40.50	26.80	30.15	40.99	41.89	20.72	37.05	5.02	17.03	33.12	32.24	18.74	35.47	37.12	31.98	39.12	13.23
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	27790	22210	13530	20480	13860	12050	7504	10410	13020	13160	8243	5103	5239	9607	8503	4778	9179	9899	8482	8644	4486
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	172	156	105	157	111	104	75	112	125	71	101	41	52	108	108	74	114	116	114	108	63
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	74	74	76	86	84	78	98	92	89	54	78	59	77	98	61	53	62	64	67	73	49
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	14	13	9	12	9	8	10	9	11	6	8	3	6	10	9	6	9	8	8	8	5
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	3.91	3.54	2.51	3.17	2.28	1.97	1.32	1.87	2.24	2.21	1.74	0.83	0.97	1.41	2.34	1.63	2.29	2.39	1.96	1.92	1.40
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	1.40	1.00	3.39	1.79	2.12	2.19	2.94	2.22	2.09	0.94	1.41	0.27	1.06	2.64	0.75	0.26	0.89	0.68	0.49	1.08	0.20
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	3454	2861	1763	2651	1750	1540	988	1347	1719	1594	1144	619	691	1273	1183	714	1257	1337	1170	1190	657
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	31.8	28.8	19.9	27.4	18.1	18.4	12.4	17.4	20.0	12.5	15.5	7.5	8.5	17.2	16.8	11.8	17.6	17.9	17.7	16.3	10.6
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	13.8	13.8	14.4	14.6	13.8	13.6	16.0	14.2	14.0	9.5	12.2	10.9	12.5	15.9	9.6	8.6	9.7	10.0	10.3	11.0	8.4
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	2.62	2.35	1.72	2.11	1.48	1.36	1.59	1.36	1.67	1.05	1.22	0.51	0.90	1.61	1.32	0.96	1.33	1.25	1.13	1.21	0.79
Erosion & sediment transport
Sediment supplied to rivers (t/yr)	107968	422132	236215	968068	443827	875014	478643	1094539	4665626	25868	4612721	445956	674238	4732563	324192	3070001	4933955	1017031	5108428	5551688
Sediment supply (t/ha/yr)	0.56	0.52	0.49	0.60	1.12	0.73	0.80	1.04	0.74	0.94	0.73	1.42	0.69	1.10	0.33	1.41	1.29	0.70	0.75	0.54
Proportion from hillslopes (%)	13.23	9.66	6.32	8.03	2.76	3.13	4.40	1.49	12.39	27.11	13.78	1.26	4.34	18.54	24.69	21.04	27.85	17.02	21.04	28.49
Proportion from bank erosion (%)	61.84	50.26	44.61	44.90	17.58	25.08	15.98	88.05	36.13	6.97	30.07	98.70	23.60	22.59	47.66	23.74	24.81	43.05	42.98	33.84
Proportion from gullies (%)	24.93	40.07	49.07	47.06	79.66	71.79	79.62	10.46	51.48	65.91	56.15	0.04	72.06	58.86	27.65	55.22	47.34	39.93	35.98	37.67
Proportion of length with bed deposition > 0.30 m (proportion)	0.00	0.09	0.22	0.19	0.52	0.47	0.55	0.25	0.34	0.94	0.30	0.27	0.47	0.47	0.22	0.34	0.32	0.33	0.25	0.28
Sed Ratio (Euro:pre-Euro) (ratio)	3	24	17	11	23	44	40	103	434	29	22	9	63	268	22	45	74	220	107	34
Sediment export to the coast (t/yr)	4582	15788	6635	46712	10690	4459	0	101001	109163	0	21627	95127	0	1548	1	1415	1671	178	1109	231
Specific sediment export to the coast (t/ha/yr)	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.00	0.00	0.10	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.30	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
River sediment delivery ratio (export/supply to streams) (ratio)	0.04	0.04	0.03	0.05	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.09	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.21	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
River nutrients
Phosphorus from fine sediments (%)	68	74	84	74	91	90	0	88	89	0	93	99	0	0	95	86	97	97	96	95	91
Phosphorus from point sources (%)	15	8	0	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Phosphorus - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	17	18	16	20	9	10	0	10	11	0	7	1	0	0	5	14	3	3	4	5	6
Phosphorus deposited on floodplain (%)	14	29	65	45	37	67	0	84	62	0	68	245	0	0	76	85	87	66	100	53	85
Phosphorus deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	2	5	9	32	26	0	45	25	0	28	0	0	0	6	0	0	22	0	42	10
Phosphorus delivered to estuaries (%)	86	69	31	46	30	7	0	188	13	0	4	531	0	0	17	15	13	11	0	5	5
Phosphorus - total basin export (t P/yr)	52	149	35	144	41	14	0	438	243	0	64	585	0	0	361	19	282	333	0	158	132
Phosphorus - export rate (kg P/ha/yr)	0.18	0.17	0.20	0.05	0.10	0.01	0.00	-0.09	0.03	0.00	0.01	-0.08	0.00	0.00	0.11	0.06	0.05	0.06	0.00	0.02	0.01
Phosphorus load - times pre-European (ratio)	1.1	1.1	1.7	1.7	0.7	2.3	2.7	1.3	2.3	8.5	2.8	1.8	1.6	2.2	5.5	2.9	6.3	5.0	3.5	2.8	3.8
Phosphorus - dissolved to total (ratio)	34	36	18	30	17	12	8	20	12	5	9	12	11	13	7	14	5	8	9	10	9
Nitrogen from sediments (%)	50	47	47	48	66	64	0	60	56	0	64	87	0	0	74	45	79	78	60	72	67
Nitrogen from point sources (%)	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Nitrogen - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	50	51	53	51	34	36	0	38	38	0	36	13	0	0	26	55	21	22	40	28	32
Nitrogen deposited on floodplain (%)	8	16	30	24	25	44	0	51	35	0	42	164	0	0	57	40	70	53	65	37	58
Nitrogen deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	1	3	5	23	18	0	27	16	0	21	0	0	0	5	0	0	17	0	33	6
Nitrogen - denitrified (%)	1	3	6	3	3	8	0	21	9	0	10	127	0	0	5	14	4	4	11	8	10
Nitrogen delivered to estuary (%)	91	81	61	68	48	30	0	437	40	0	28	5243	0	0	33	45	26	25	24	22	26
Nitrogen - total export (t/yr)	406	1360	426	1961	400	370	0	6859	5409	0	2710	14452	0	0	3197	382	1772	2874	535	3494	3247
Nitrogen - export rate (kg/ha/yr)	1.38	1.53	2.40	0.72	1.00	0.26	0.00	0.02	0.63	0.00	0.28	-0.26	0.00	0.00	0.96	1.29	0.30	0.51	0.63	0.54	0.18
Nitrogen load - times pre-European (ratio)	1.0	1.1	1.6	1.4	1.8	1.9	2.9	1.7	2.3	3.4	2.3	1.4	1.7	2.4	2.9	1.8	3.8	3.0	2.4	2.4	2.0
Nitrogen - dissolved to total (ratio)	62	71	66	64	56	57	59	81	58	25	54	74	68	61	43	68	32	36	54	56	52

Context
Basin number	423	424	425	426	501	502	503	504	505	506	507	508	509	510	511	512	513	601	602	603	604
Basin name	Warrego River	Paroo River	Darling River	Lower Murray River	Fleurieu Peninsular	Myponga River	Onkaparinga River	Torrens River	Gawler River	Wakefield River	Broughton River	Mambray Coast	Willochra Creek	Lake Torrens	Spencer Gulf	Eyre Peninsular	Kangaroo Island	Esperance Coast	Albany Coast	Denmark River	Kent River
Basin area (km2)	62937	73965	112823	58286	985	155	915	1130	4582	1913	16371	5951	6615	26259	10878	3199	4413	20154	19608	2611	2492
Improved pasture (%)	0.57	0.03	0.07	3.95	37.07	41.89	18.35	9.09	7.62	12.49	8.44	0.22	3.60	0.00	7.03	7.22	32.88	25.14	28.95	16.04	25.86
Cropping (%)	0.09	0.00	0.42	4.35	2.41	3.14	2.80	0.73	33.65	53.03	45.11	2.52	11.71	0.04	18.90	14.13	5.13	19.71	20.18	0.44	3.16
Horticulture (%)	0.14	0.01	0.06	0.99	0.53	1.86	25.33	13.40	14.69	9.72	6.29	0.58	1.02	0.00	6.27	0.41	0.40	1.38	2.05	0.58	0.47
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	0.80	0.04	0.55	9.29	40.02	46.89	46.47	23.23	55.97	75.24	59.84	3.32	16.33	0.04	32.20	21.75	38.40	46.23	51.17	17.06	29.49
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	454	308	296	280	725	742	693	650	465	399	416	295	318	193	291	483	616	445	481	794	784
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	443	305	286	257	408	420	437	414	366	331	333	268	293	154	267	328	348	367	369	461	443
Run off (mm/yr)	11	4	11	26	317	332	288	249	106	68	83	27	26	39	25	156	268	78	112	333	341
Carbon
Net primary production (t C/ha/yr)	1.6	0.8	1.0	1.1	3.5	3.3	3.3	2.9	3.0	2.9	2.6	1.2	1.5	0.3	1.3	2.5	3.5	2.4	2.6	4.3	4.4
Plant carbon (t C/ha)	28.9	13.5	21.5	31.8	128.0	121.1	112.3	96.3	88.3	80.0	72.7	29.4	42.6	7.3	34.0	74.9	117.0	67.4	81.8	141.6	144.8
Litter + soil carbon (t C/ha)	40.2	25.2	38.7	52.3	132.1	122.7	115.4	100.1	109.3	110.6	101.8	47.4	70.0	15.1	53.6	91.7	115.8	75.2	82.7	110.7	116.4
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	0.02	0.00	0.06	0.52	1.07	1.23	2.20	1.92	5.81	7.10	5.55	0.27	1.24	0.00	1.45	2.81	0.27	2.39	4.02	0.21	0.49
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	5.42	2.56	3.56	10.84	76.47	76.26	35.42	26.06	52.11	71.33	53.88	5.99	15.32	1.03	16.28	29.19	70.63	52.54	60.25	49.59	71.80
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	3377	2026	3118	4243	11510	10640	9912	8525	9197	9217	8520	3834	5696	1184	4366	7705	9934	6343	7035	9579	10040
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	44	36	35	39	155	134	87	65	96	106	88	32	47	14	48	81	136	96	119	148	159
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	43	45	51	63	113	107	78	70	117	148	127	56	77	35	78	89	123	103	115	93	111
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	3	2	2	4	14	14	9	8	15	19	17	3	5	1	6	9	14	11	13	13	16
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	1.08	0.51	0.68	0.73	2.33	2.20	2.22	1.94	2.01	1.90	1.70	0.80	1.01	0.20	0.85	1.67	2.33	1.63	1.74	2.89	2.96
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.52	2.54	3.07	1.78	0.83	3.79	5.38	4.90	0.28	1.55	0.00	1.75	2.47	2.04	2.69	4.04	1.65	2.56
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	499	335	430	542	1619	1478	1313	1098	1227	1222	1111	488	714	163	602	1062	1442	946	1116	1598	1641
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	8.0	6.5	6.4	6.6	21.0	18.3	14.3	10.8	14.5	15.1	13.5	5.7	8.3	2.5	8.4	13.4	18.3	13.4	16.9	23.4	23.3
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	8.0	8.2	9.3	10.8	15.3	14.7	12.8	11.5	17.7	21.2	19.6	10.1	13.7	6.3	14.0	14.9	16.7	14.4	16.3	14.6	16.1
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	0.59	0.40	0.45	0.60	1.86	1.91	1.54	1.24	2.23	2.70	2.52	0.55	0.95	0.21	0.99	1.56	1.83	1.52	1.79	2.06	2.33
Erosion & sediment transport
Sediment supplied to rivers (t/yr)	1622326	1046864	3592482	2057263	35434	1482	12425	13590	117291	44567	341609	111773	222158	582864	110072	11376	50235	262308	432103	96073	55142
Sediment supply (t/ha/yr)	0.36	0.26	0.71	0.85	0.87	0.11	0.18	0.15	0.27	0.32	0.29	0.25	0.37	0.41	0.14	0.07	0.17	0.18	0.26	0.37	0.23
Proportion from hillslopes (%)	43.16	47.33	8.75	12.58	2.85	45.33	15.58	14.51	11.75	12.80	16.32	48.89	19.71	48.22	46.83	11.74	2.99	6.89	5.70	1.28	1.32
Proportion from bank erosion (%)	36.84	39.56	81.01	74.96	7.58	30.78	49.64	67.77	43.15	29.76	28.61	9.34	17.75	7.53	27.19	70.03	26.80	18.59	19.60	17.08	17.82
Proportion from gullies (%)	20.01	13.10	10.24	12.46	89.57	23.89	34.78	17.73	45.10	57.44	55.06	41.77	62.55	44.24	25.98	18.23	70.20	74.53	74.70	81.64	80.86
Proportion of length with bed deposition > 0.30 m (proportion)	0.17	0.09	0.25	0.41	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.18	0.15	0.11	0.07	0.48	0.32	0.01	0.03	0.01	0.07	0.22	0.09	0.11
Sed Ratio (Euro:pre-Euro) (ratio)	16	13	24	14	12	1	4	2	11	10	9	29	13	13	37	3	63	259	76	36	426
Sediment export to the coast (t/yr)	91	0	169797	564300	13310	641	3820	3223	25422	5466	56140	29033	0	1434	21507	3373	17111	40274	80131	31091	14816
Specific sediment export to the coast (t/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.23	0.33	0.05	0.06	0.04	0.06	0.04	0.05	0.06	0.00	0.00	0.03	0.02	0.06	0.03	0.05	0.12	0.06
River sediment delivery ratio (export/supply to streams) (ratio)	0.00	0.00	0.05	0.27	0.38	0.43	0.31	0.24	0.22	0.12	0.16	0.26	0.00	0.00	0.20	0.30	0.34	0.15	0.19	0.32	0.27
River nutrients
Phosphorus from fine sediments (%)	93	0	97	94	86	63	24	61	61	61	57	85	81	95	67	35	51	61	64	71	57
Phosphorus from point sources (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Phosphorus - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	7	0	3	6	14	37	15	39	39	39	43	15	19	5	33	65	49	39	36	29	43
Phosphorus deposited on floodplain (%)	97	0	262	75	26	5	18	24	44	54	46	60	75	61	57	31	21	52	49	31	34
Phosphorus deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	55	0	0	37	18	0	0	2	3	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Phosphorus delivered to estuaries (%)	3	0	22	257	74	95	45	58	56	46	51	37	25	35	43	69	79	48	51	69	66
Phosphorus - total basin export (t P/yr)	20	0	153	661	9	1	7	4	28	9	75	11	16	59	17	6	19	50	85	23	16
Phosphorus - export rate (kg P/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	-0.11	-0.01	0.09	0.08	0.07	0.03	0.06	0.03	0.05	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.08	0.07
Phosphorus load - times pre-European (ratio)	3.7	3.2	2.4	2.7	2.7	0.5	3.9	0.7	2.0	2.2	1.8	3.9	4.0	4.5	2.8	1.2	1.5	2.2	2.3	2.4	2.0
Phosphorus - dissolved to total (ratio)	7	7	11	8	5	60	39	52	16	10	10	3	3	1	6	27	36	18	15	21	29
Nitrogen from sediments (%)	71	0	87	71	47	25	20	33	22	20	21	55	47	80	30	9	14	21	22	29	18
Nitrogen from point sources (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nitrogen - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	29	0	13	29	53	75	52	67	78	80	79	45	53	20	70	91	86	79	78	71	82
Nitrogen deposited on floodplain (%)	69	0	171	42	13	1	4	8	13	16	14	34	39	48	22	4	4	15	14	11	8
Nitrogen deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	42	0	0	7	13	0	0	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nitrogen - denitrified (%)	14	0	403	37	5	5	11	10	21	24	26	19	31	14	36	20	11	26	22	7	11
Nitrogen delivered to estuary (%)	16	0	18	1061	82	94	79	69	66	60	59	45	30	35	43	76	85	60	64	82	80
Nitrogen - total export (t/yr)	606	0	579	14728	74	18	86	57	439	165	1236	102	157	310	205	117	366	901	1415	290	267
Nitrogen - export rate (kg/ha/yr)	0.11	0.00	-1.57	-0.05	0.74	1.21	0.92	0.55	0.91	0.56	0.81	0.16	0.23	0.12	0.21	0.36	0.82	0.45	0.68	1.03	1.14
Nitrogen load - times pre-European (ratio)	1.7	1.6	1.7	2.0	2.2	1.6	2.3	1.2	2.4	4.5	3.7	1.9	2.5	3.2	2.3	2.0	1.9	2.0	2.6	1.5	1.9
Nitrogen - dissolved to total (ratio)	54	56	59	56	43	86	82	87	69	65	67	47	51	18	54	89	84	82	82	85	90

Context
Basin number	605	606	607	608	609	610	611	612	613	614	615	616	617	618	619	701	702	703	704	705	706
Basin name	Frankland River	Shannon River	Warren River	Donnelly River	Blackwood River	Busselton Coast	Preston River	Collie River	Harvey River	Murray River (WA)	Avon River	Swan Coast	Moore-Hill Rivers	Yarra Yarra Lakes	Ninghan	Greenough River	Murchison River	Wooramel River	Gascoyne River	Lyndon-Minilya Rivers	Ashburton River
Basin area (km2)	4657	3297	4404	1731	22565	3061	1134	3713	2002	9941	117721	8240	24515	42186	20582	25043	91229	41907	75818	52736	75716
Improved pasture (%)	34.84	1.76	10.54	10.93	28.88	34.63	25.18	11.02	29.17	23.55	11.32	7.12	20.44	1.67	0.50	8.72	0.46	0.09	0.00	0.00	0.00
Cropping (%)	12.98	0.15	1.38	0.14	22.12	0.49	0.67	0.98	1.00	10.53	25.99	2.85	18.28	8.55	4.01	22.06	0.65	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Horticulture (%)	0.91	0.56	0.58	0.65	3.24	1.03	4.28	0.36	2.83	4.47	4.47	17.45	6.04	2.46	1.32	8.03	0.99	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.00
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	48.72	2.47	12.50	11.72	54.24	36.14	30.13	12.35	33.01	38.56	41.77	27.41	44.77	12.67	5.83	38.80	2.10	0.09	0.01	0.01	0.00
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	574	1051	798	1039	547	915	879	802	938	706	336	755	494	290	284	369	242	224	251	255	308
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	369	487	418	469	345	410	440	416	447	396	289	427	355	269	265	307	233	213	246	240	301
Run off (mm/yr)	205	565	381	570	202	507	455	390	504	310	47	330	139	21	19	61	9	11	5	14	7
Carbon
Net primary production (t C/ha/yr)	3.4	5.5	4.3	5.6	3.1	2.9	3.9	3.5	3.2	3.1	1.5	2.7	2.1	0.8	0.9	1.6	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.3
Plant carbon (t C/ha)	112.5	174.5	138.4	175.6	92.7	79.2	111.2	103.7	81.6	86.1	37.3	63.8	42.2	13.8	16.3	28.8	6.0	8.1	3.6	4.6	5.6
Litter + soil carbon (t C/ha)	117.0	142.7	132.4	156.2	106.8	77.5	104.0	90.5	75.5	89.1	55.0	59.5	49.8	24.1	27.2	42.0	12.1	16.5	8.5	10.6	11.5
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	1.94	0.49	1.38	0.42	3.62	2.39	5.97	0.52	4.52	1.78	3.90	0.43	3.88	1.39	0.45	4.64	0.14	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	72.86	23.36	39.95	50.99	67.04	55.51	60.55	31.53	54.73	51.46	26.50	20.66	39.76	7.49	4.67	28.77	1.74	1.59	0.67	0.88	1.06
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	9938	12300	11320	13470	8957	6629	8873	7605	6492	7426	4413	4922	4040	1871	2080	3330	920	1196	650	792	909
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	125	130	110	144	108	104	114	92	116	90	64	64	79	33	31	61	20	20	15	14	18
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	134	86	93	104	132	90	98	76	85	98	95	60	93	53	49	82	37	39	31	31	31
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	15	16	13	18	15	14	15	12	14	13	9	9	11	4	3	9	2	2	1	1	2
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	2.27	3.65	2.85	3.75	2.04	1.91	2.58	2.37	2.11	2.05	1.01	1.79	1.38	0.51	0.58	1.07	0.23	0.31	0.13	0.18	0.21
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	3.58	0.75	2.55	2.07	4.51	5.15	6.90	1.96	5.23	3.09	2.38	0.45	2.91	0.65	0.22	2.84	0.10	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	1413	1877	1606	1978	1256	1074	1396	1206	1112	1095	660	788	693	310	334	555	171	200	120	131	155
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	17.5	23.8	18.8	24.2	15.6	16.7	19.6	15.7	18.3	13.8	10.0	10.7	11.8	5.6	5.6	9.6	3.6	3.6	2.7	2.5	3.2
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	18.3	15.8	15.9	17.4	18.9	14.6	16.9	13.2	13.7	14.6	14.8	10.0	14.0	9.0	8.8	13.2	6.6	7.2	5.6	5.5	5.5
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	2.02	2.86	2.16	3.01	2.19	2.30	2.59	1.99	2.34	1.96	1.33	1.45	1.60	0.61	0.50	1.41	0.29	0.29	0.23	0.23	0.28
Erosion & sediment transport
Sediment supplied to rivers (t/yr)	191579	12817	109750	16014	801185	71086	72214	104569	56121	459501	1631866	366825	534511	152132	21065	724210	1502684
Sediment supply (t/ha/yr)	0.41	0.05	0.25	0.09	0.35	0.31	0.62	0.28	0.38	0.48	0.38	0.51	0.46	0.25	0.22	0.40	0.30
Proportion from hillslopes (%)	1.30	0.65	0.87	0.98	2.63	3.05	1.71	3.30	2.94	2.35	4.39	1.96	2.77	17.31	21.54	6.30	24.60
Proportion from bank erosion (%)	16.14	38.61	32.14	29.77	27.15	35.35	33.06	38.69	44.66	22.98	19.82	24.37	15.69	14.15	20.86	17.57	21.05
Proportion from gullies (%)	82.56	60.74	67.00	69.25	70.22	61.60	65.23	58.01	52.41	74.67	75.79	73.67	81.55	68.54	57.60	76.13	54.34
Proportion of length with bed deposition > 0.30 m (proportion)	0.57	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.37	0.05	0.00	0.11	0.11	0.55	0.60	0.32	0.54	0.10	0.00	0.45	0.14
Sed Ratio (Euro:pre-Euro) (ratio)	92	170	80	57	247	817	29	>1,000	106	598	470	418	32	229	415	91	9
Sediment export to the coast (t/yr)	26392	5264	27922	5886	97576	24238	24565	21630	17138	84754	75636	89746	50819	0	0	116012	21096
Specific sediment export to the coast (t/ha/yr)	0.06	0.02	0.06	0.03	0.04	0.10	0.21	0.06	0.12	0.09	0.02	0.12	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.00
River sediment delivery ratio (export/supply to streams) (ratio)	0.14	0.41	0.25	0.37	0.12	0.34	0.34	0.21	0.31	0.18	0.05	0.24	0.10	0.00	0.00	0.16	0.01
River nutrients
Phosphorus from fine sediments (%)	72	18	59	28	67	64	75	64	66	76	73	36	79	90	87	77	92
Phosphorus from point sources (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	0
Phosphorus - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	28	82	41	72	33	36	25	36	34	24	27	8	21	10	13	23	8
Phosphorus deposited on floodplain (%)	61	7	37	12	59	24	27	26	19	53	86	51	66	63	55	58	95
Phosphorus deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	5	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Phosphorus delivered to estuaries (%)	39	93	63	88	41	76	73	47	76	47	14	77	34	37	45	42	5
Phosphorus - total basin export (t P/yr)	26	17	29	13	122	21	18	19	18	73	78	200	59	14	2	96	19
Phosphorus - export rate (kg P/ha/yr)	0.05	0.05	0.07	0.07	0.05	0.07	0.15	0.05	0.10	0.07	0.01	0.33	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.00
Phosphorus load - times pre-European (ratio)	3.3	1.2	2.1	1.2	2.4	2.8	3.9	1.6	1.7	2.6	3.0	2.0	3.9	5.7	7.7	5.3	7.2
Phosphorus - dissolved to total (ratio)	10	71	25	62	14	26	13	31	45	24	7	32	9	2	3	4	4
Nitrogen from sediments (%)	28	4	21	7	25	26	37	27	28	35	32	25	37	64	61	36	70
Nitrogen from point sources (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	43	0	0	0	0	0
Nitrogen - dissolved from diffuse sources (%)	72	96	79	93	75	74	63	73	72	65	68	32	63	36	39	64	30
Nitrogen deposited on floodplain (%)	21	1	10	2	20	9	12	9	7	22	27	20	29	41	35	26	68
Nitrogen deposited in reservoirs (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Nitrogen - denitrified (%)	18	6	11	7	27	5	7	9	5	13	33	27	23	22	22	23	24
Nitrogen delivered to estuary (%)	61	93	78	91	54	86	81	75	86	65	40	52	48	37	43	51	8
Nitrogen - total export (t/yr)	451	311	439	239	1973	305	185	339	234	1011	2332	831	777	88	17	1132	169
Nitrogen - export rate (kg/ha/yr)	0.93	1.02	0.98	1.39	0.87	1.00	1.58	0.91	1.25	1.02	0.19	-4.01	0.31	0.02	0.01	0.44	0.02
Nitrogen load - times pre-European (ratio)	3.1	1.1	1.6	1.3	3.0	2.3	2.3	1.4	1.6	2.1	3.6	1.7	2.6	2.8	2.3	3.1	2.7
Nitrogen - dissolved to total (ratio)	81	98	89	97	84	83	77	90	89	80	77	85	75	53	66	69	51

Context
Basin number	707	708	709	710	801	802	803	804	805	806	807	808	809	810	811	812	813	814	815	816	817
Basin name	Onslow Coast	Fortescue River	Port Hedland Coast	De Grey River	Cape Leveque Coast	Fitzroy River (WA)	Lennard River	Isdell River	Prince Regent River	King Edward River	Drysdale River	Pentecost River	Ord River	Keep River	Victoria River	Fitzmaurice River	Moyle River	Daly River	Finniss River	Bathurst and Melville Islands	Adelaide River
Basin area (km2)	17805	49759	35353	56720	22952	93829	14763	19935	15404	17576	26019	29150	55472	11848	78146	10366	7083	53198	9489	7493	7466
Improved pasture (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.69	0.04	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.08	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.17	2.28	0.00	0.45
Cropping (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.17	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00
Horticulture (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.13	0.02	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.50	0.00	6.78
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.70	0.04	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.38	0.03	0.00	0.01	0.06	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.17	7.81	0.00	7.23
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	362	359	345	356	703	606	802	998	1191	1218	1010	768	651	931	732	1154	1382	1066	1595	1705	1403
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	333	346	323	343	544	507	591	673	724	764	699	603	550	651	590	736	782	714	874	856	844
Run off (mm/yr)	28	13	23	13	159	99	211	325	467	455	311	165	102	280	142	418	599	353	721	850	559
Carbon
Net primary production (t C/ha/yr)	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.9	0.5	0.9	1.2	1.5	1.5	1.1	0.6	0.6	0.9	0.8	1.5	2.0	1.6	2.2	2.7	2.2
Plant carbon (t C/ha)	6.4	7.5	4.8	4.5	16.1	9.3	15.6	21.0	26.1	26.3	18.3	10.7	11.1	16.4	14.4	26.4	35.1	26.8	38.3	46.5	37.1
Litter + soil carbon (t C/ha)	12.2	14.6	10.4	8.4	15.5	11.6	18.9	23.7	28.1	29.1	16.4	9.6	13.8	16.7	17.8	23.2	34.2	26.5	37.2	46.2	37.3
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.01
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	1.22	1.43	0.91	0.85	3.09	1.78	3.00	4.03	5.04	5.18	3.53	2.05	2.13	3.15	2.76	5.10	6.80	5.17	7.45	9.05	7.20
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	969	1184	828	668	1277	961	1601	2045	2431	2537	1406	807	1158	1431	1516	1988	2959	2267	3234	4043	3232
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	17	21	16	16	28	19	27	28	27	30	24	18	21	24	24	30	37	30	48	82	39
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	26	30	26	26	23	20	21	22	22	22	20	19	20	19	21	22	24	22	24	27	24
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	2	2	1	2	3	2	3	4	5	5	4	3	2	3	3	5	5	4	6	7	5
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	0.24	0.29	0.18	0.17	0.62	0.36	0.60	0.81	1.01	1.02	0.71	0.41	0.43	0.63	0.55	1.02	1.36	1.03	1.49	1.81	1.44
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	158	195	138	126	256	173	266	314	348	363	249	164	201	245	245	336	450	353	515	738	476
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	3.0	3.9	2.8	2.8	5.0	3.4	4.8	5.1	4.9	5.4	4.4	3.3	3.8	4.3	4.3	5.5	6.8	5.4	8.6	15.0	7.1
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	4.7	5.4	4.6	4.6	4.3	3.6	3.8	4.0	4.0	3.9	3.6	3.3	3.6	3.4	3.7	3.9	4.4	4.1	4.3	4.9	4.4
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	0.28	0.32	0.26	0.27	0.57	0.38	0.53	0.69	0.85	0.83	0.67	0.48	0.41	0.55	0.47	0.82	0.98	0.75	1.14	1.33	1.00

Context
Basin number	818	819	820	821	822	823	824	825	826	901	902	903	904	905	906	907	908	909	910	911	912
Basin name	Mary River (WA)	Wildman River	South Alligator River	East Alligator River	Goomadeer River	Liverpool River	Blyth River	Goyder River	Buckingham River	Koolatong River	Walker River	Roper River	Towns River	Limmen Bight River	Rosie River	McArthur River	Robinson River	Calvert River	Settlement Creek	Mornington Island	Nicholson River
Basin area (km2)	8077	4814	11916	15863	5684	8943	9218	10374	9569	7910	9715	79630	5433	15939	5039	20010	11371	10016	17319	1236	51625
Improved pasture (%)	0.67	0.07	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Cropping (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Horticulture (%)	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.97	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.10	0.00
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	0.69	0.07	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.97	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.10	0.00
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	1341	1396	1363	1379	1296	1237	1186	1145	1315	1177	970	824	678	652	753	656	723	721	793	1018	518
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	825	830	807	777	731	716	691	686	737	723	656	600	532	533	582	551	585	595	633	637	470
Run off (mm/yr)	516	566	555	601	566	521	495	459	578	454	314	225	146	119	171	106	138	126	160	381	48
Carbon
Net primary production (t C/ha/yr)	2.1	2.2	1.8	1.8	1.8	1.5	1.7	1.6	1.9	2.0	1.4	1.0	0.8	0.7	0.9	0.7	0.9	1.1	1.1	1.2	0.5
Plant carbon (t C/ha)	35.3	37.3	31.6	31.3	30.3	26.3	28.7	28.4	32.8	34.9	25.0	18.1	14.0	12.4	16.2	12.9	16.2	18.7	18.8	20.8	9.4
Litter + soil carbon (t C/ha)	32.3	36.0	25.4	27.9	23.9	20.8	24.5	24.4	29.2	28.7	19.5	17.9	13.3	12.2	13.6	12.6	14.5	16.6	19.9	23.7	13.4
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	6.84	7.24	6.12	6.06	5.87	5.08	5.54	5.48	6.35	6.75	4.81	3.48	2.69	2.37	3.11	2.47	3.11	3.60	3.61	4.01	1.80
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	2787	3132	2183	2413	2048	1791	2108	2100	2535	2482	1662	1513	1107	1011	1133	1040	1206	1378	1685	2051	1114
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	35	49	29	41	34	32	38	36	55	51	32	25	23	20	22	20	21	21	26	33	21
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	24	24	22	23	23	22	23	23	25	26	23	21	21	21	21	21	22	23	23	22	23
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	5	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	6	6	4	3	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	2
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	1.37	1.45	1.22	1.21	1.17	1.02	1.11	1.10	1.27	1.35	0.96	0.70	0.54	0.47	0.62	0.49	0.62	0.72	0.72	0.80	0.36
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	430	515	357	422	370	328	385	372	492	484	321	260	218	191	221	196	223	243	276	333	194
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	6.4	8.9	5.3	7.5	6.3	5.7	7.0	6.5	9.9	9.4	5.8	4.5	4.2	3.6	4.0	3.6	3.9	3.9	4.6	5.9	3.8
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	4.3	4.4	4.0	4.1	4.1	3.9	4.2	4.3	4.5	4.7	4.2	3.8	3.8	3.7	3.8	3.7	3.9	4.2	4.1	3.9	4.2
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	0.97	1.02	1.00	1.00	0.98	0.92	0.92	0.90	1.04	1.02	0.77	0.56	0.48	0.45	0.55	0.46	0.52	0.57	0.55	0.64	0.36

Context
Basin number	913	914	915	916	917	918	919	920	921	922	923	924	925	926	927	928	929	001	002	003	004
Basin name	Leichhardt River	Morning River	Flinders River	Norman River	Gilbert River	Staaten River	Mitchell River (WA)	Coleman River	Holroyd River	Archer River	Watson River	Embley River	Wenlock River	Ducie River	Jardine River	Torres Strait Islands	Groote Eylandt	Georgina River	Diamantina River	Coopers Creek	Lake Frome
Basin area (km2)	33307	3613	109728	50022	46292	25824	71529	12900	10217	13858	4682	4688	7468	6809	3287	566	2367	247861	157418	297570	201672
Improved pasture (%)	0.00	0.00	0.16	0.17	3.06	0.90	2.44	0.00	0.00	0.08	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.15	0.66	0.04
Cropping (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.20
Horticulture (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.12	0.05	16.22	15.61	47.72	13.90	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	0.00	0.00	0.17	0.17	3.07	0.90	2.62	0.06	16.22	15.69	47.72	13.90	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.15	0.67	0.25
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	509	659	468	637	729	862	942	1239	1335	1432	1715	1803	1569	1595	1672	1775	1060	239	230	301	162
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	470	541	438	539	583	627	669	719	731	753	773	786	792	773	796	823	713	236	224	296	147
Run off (mm/yr)	39	118	30	99	145	235	273	521	604	679	942	1017	777	822	876	952	347	3	6	5	15
Carbon
Net primary production (t C/ha/yr)	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.8	1.2	0.9	1.5	1.4	1.8	2.3	2.2	2.1	2.5	2.5	3.5	1.9	1.8	0.2	0.1	0.5	0.2
Plant carbon (t C/ha)	10.5	10.7	10.6	13.9	21.6	14.8	25.4	24.9	30.8	39.6	37.3	36.5	43.3	42.2	60.0	32.0	31.2	3.7	2.2	8.4	3.7
Litter + soil carbon (t C/ha)	15.9	18.0	18.7	15.7	25.7	17.0	24.4	23.9	29.1	37.5	35.7	34.1	39.4	37.4	48.1	20.9	22.2	9.1	6.5	17.0	8.6
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.18	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	2.00	2.06	2.03	2.66	4.15	2.84	4.93	4.82	5.96	7.67	7.22	7.08	8.42	8.20	11.68	6.24	6.03	0.69	0.43	1.60	0.70
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	1320	1542	1581	1305	2187	1444	2086	2057	2506	3247	3085	2945	3420	3243	4173	1777	1898	695	522	1388	665
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	21	22	26	26	30	23	33	35	43	54	49	48	65	66	92	29	34	15	14	23	12
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	25	20	27	23	26	21	25	22	24	27	25	24	28	28	34	23	25	31	30	36	34
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	5	5	6	7	7	7	7	10	8	5	1	1	2	1
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	0.40	0.41	0.41	0.53	0.83	0.57	0.98	0.96	1.19	1.53	1.44	1.42	1.68	1.64	2.34	1.25	1.21	0.14	0.09	0.32	0.10
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.06	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	210	223	244	240	336	234	353	354	437	555	514	496	620	610	834	329	361	125	100	217	106
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	3.8	3.9	4.6	4.6	5.5	4.1	6.1	6.3	7.9	9.9	8.9	8.7	11.8	11.9	16.7	5.2	6.1	2.7	2.5	4.2	2.0
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	4.5	3.6	4.8	4.2	4.8	3.8	4.6	4.0	4.3	4.9	4.5	4.4	5.1	5.0	6.2	4.2	4.5	5.5	5.2	6.5	5.9
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	0.38	0.35	0.35	0.47	0.58	0.53	0.74	0.82	0.97	1.18	1.24	1.28	1.31	1.36	1.85	1.46	0.92	0.21	0.19	0.31	0.17

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Basin number	005	006	007	011	012	021	022	023	024	025	026	027	028	029
Basin name	Finke River	Todd River	Hay River	Bulloo River	Lake Bancannia	Gairdner	Nullarbor	Warburton	Salt Lake	Sandy Desert	Mackay	Burt	Wiso	Barkly
Basin area (km2)	100085	59653	99804	75528	23292	197878	190737	371640	494827	404341	403000	38836	229294	124011
Improved pasture (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.00	1.39	0.00	0.00	0.47	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Cropping (%)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	4.35	0.00	0.00	0.33	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Horticulture (%)	0.00	0.31	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.21	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total agricultural land proportion (%)	0.00	0.31	0.00	0.05	0.00	5.95	0.00	0.00	0.84	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.01
Climate
Rain (mm/yr)	187	190	160	284	204	217	206	189	252	314	283	266	398	357
Total evaporation (mm/yr)	186	190	159	281	202	196	201	188	245	301	275	265	374	344
Run off (mm/yr)	1	0	1	3	2	21	5	1	7	13	8	1	25	13
Carbon
Net primary production (t C/ha/yr)	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.3	0.6	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.2	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.3
Plant carbon (t C/ha)	5.2	5.7	3.2	9.0	5.3	13.4	8.7	5.7	13.3	3.9	5.8	9.4	8.2	6.0
Litter + soil carbon (t C/ha)	12.3	12.1	7.4	17.7	14.1	24.3	17.5	12.0	22.3	5.9	9.6	16.5	11.2	11.7
Landscape nutrients
Nitrogen from fertiliser (kg N/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.23	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Nitrogen fixation (kg N/ha/yr)	0.98	1.08	0.60	1.70	0.97	4.23	1.23	1.07	2.79	0.74	1.10	1.78	1.55	1.15
Total nitrogen (kg N/ha)	895	831	497	1418	1101	1897	1363	856	1748	438	706	1225	868	940
Mineral nitrogen (kg N/ha)	15	13	9	28	23	21	20	18	25	14	17	20	18	19
Mineral nitrogen concentration in soil water (mg N/kg W)	41	41	35	41	44	48	45	44	44	25	31	39	26	25
Nitrogen leached (kg N/ha/yr)	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	1
Nitrogen volatilised (kg N/ha/yr)	0.20	0.22	0.12	0.34	0.19	0.37	0.25	0.21	0.41	0.15	0.22	0.35	0.31	0.23
Phosphorus from fertiliser (kg P/ha/yr)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.27	0.00	0.00	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total phosphorus (kg P/ha)	147	141	90	245	191	264	207	160	273	104	143	208	164	164
Dissolved mineral phosphorus (kg P/ha)	2.7	2.4	1.7	5.1	4.1	3.8	3.5	3.2	4.6	2.5	3.0	3.7	3.2	3.4
Phosphorus concentration (mg P/kg W)	7.4	7.5	6.2	7.4	8.0	8.6	8.2	8.1	7.9	4.5	5.7	7.1	4.7	4.5
Phosphorus leached (kg P/m2/yr)	0.24	0.27	0.19	0.34	0.26	0.41	0.29	0.28	0.36	0.26	0.29	0.35	0.33	0.26

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