However, distilling those networks into three principle categories is helpful for interpretation: 1) estuaries with minimal or no threats, 2) estuaries that have a single dominant threat and 3) estuaries that have some level of all threats.
Network 1 estuaries also have a moderate to high amount of EPA 303 d) streams, which may be attributed to the agriculture.
One-way ANOVA demonstrated that salinity differed significantly between estuaries (p = 0.005), with, on average, higher values being recorded in the Vasse (18.3 ± 0.44 SE) than the Wonnerup (15.7 ± 0.51 SE) Estuary (Table 1).
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The river's lower section, including a 48.5 km2 estuary, was designated as a Great Lakes Area of Concern due to degradation from industrial activities.
Although salinities were significantly higher in the Vasse (18.3) than Wonnerup (15.7) Estuary, these differences were not great enough to inhibit colonisation by the three dominant species, all of which are euryhaline (Hoeksema et al. 2006; Veale et al. 2014).
Three important migration parameters, (1) residence time, (2) estuary time, and (3) tortuosity index, were all intermediate for hybrid smolts in relation to pure smolts.
We calculated apparent percent survival for FW released fish in 4 segments: (1) river or mouth (FW) release site to estuary, (2) estuary to NSOG, (3) NSOG to QCS, and (4) FW release site (mouth or river) to QCS.
Sample P26 (estuary) had an elevated index score relative to all other marine samples due to an increased phage count (Podoviridae).
Total Zn was lower than the highest values reported in the Hackensack River (0.0312 0.0849 mg l−1) and Thames Estuary (0.0330 0.0773 mg l−1).
