Combining in-situ water quality and remotely sensed data across spatial and temporal scales to measure variability in wet season chlorophyll-a: Great Barrier Reef lagoon (Queensland, Australia)

Ecological Processes

Table 2 Statistical measures of chl-a concentration for each transect in the study

No	Region	River	Period	Min	Max	Mean	SD	n
i	Wet tropics	Russell-Mulgrave	2006–2013	0.21	1.60	0.79	0.49	21
		Tully	2006–2013	0.20	6.14	0.95	0.79	339
		Herbert	2006–2013	0.20	10.15	1.58	1.61	102
		Proserpine	2006–2013	0.24	3.47	0.89	0.57	46
	Dry tropics	Burdekin	2006–2013	0.20	13.78	1.07	1.54	134
		Fitzroy	2006–2013	0.20	26.70	2.00	3.49	164
ii	Wet tropics	Tully	2006–2007	0.40	3.36	1.11	0.60	26
			2007–2008
			2008–2009	0.20	2.24	0.72	0.52	46
			2009–2010	0.20	2.70	0.79	0.50	54
			2010–2011	0.20	6.14	1.11	1.00	145
			2011–2012	0.27	3.74	0.75	0.65	47
			2012–2013	0.23	1.66	0.90	0.41	21
iii	Wet tropics	Herbert	2006–2007
			2007–2008
			2008–2009
			2009–2010
			2010–2011
			2011–2012	0.20	10.15	1.63	1.72	85
			2012–2013	0.29	2.90	1.35	0.92	17
iv	Wet tropics	Burdekin	2006–2007	0.20	13.78	1.27	2.24	52
			2007–2008	0.20	3.47	1.08	0.78	40
			2008–2009	0.20	0.99	0.33	0.19	18
			2009–2010	0.69	3.40	1.91	1.34	5
			2010–2011	0.20	2.67	1.03	0.87	18
			2011–2012
			2012–2013	0.75	0.75	0.75		1
v	Wet tropics	Fitzroy	2006–2007	0.31	1.19	0.64	0.38	5
			2007–2008	0.20	26.70	4.18	5.61	34
			2008–2009
			2009–2010	0.20	1.60	0.81	0.51	12
			2010–2011	0.20	22.43	1.66	2.70	99
			2011–2012	0.20	2.14	0.59	0.50	14
			2012–2013

(i) Data grouped over all years (2006–2013) within each transect. Sampling period is constrained for the months December to April inclusive. Transect is defined by location of closest river influence. Annual statistical measurements of chl-a concentrations are also presented for (ii) Tully, (iii) Herbert, (iv) Burdekin, and (v) Fitzroy.