Environmental challenges in a near-pristine mangrove estuary facing rapid urban and industrial development: Darwin Harbour, Northern Australia

Agriculture & Biology

• urban development 100%
• harbors (waterways) 83%
• industrialization 82%
• mangroves (trees) 79%
• estuaries 70%
• mangrove forests 23%
• pollutants 16%
• land clearing 13%
• ecosystems 12%
• environmental knowledge 11%
• dredging 11%
• littoral zone 10%
• primary productivity 10%
• runoff 9%
• sea level 9%
• ecosystem services 9%
• water quality 8%
• sediments 7%
• fauna 7%
• invertebrates 7%
• biodiversity 6%
• monitoring 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• industrial development 78%
• mangrove 67%
• urban development 65%
• harbor 60%
• estuary 53%
• catchment 25%
• land clearing 12%
• monitoring technique 10%
• pollutant 10%
• ecosystem 10%
• floristics 9%
• intertidal environment 9%
• dredging 8%
• sea level rise 8%
• ecosystem service 7%
• invertebrate 7%
• fauna 6%
• sedimentation 6%
• biodiversity 6%
• runoff 5%
• productivity 5%
• health 5%
• water quality 5%
• habitat 5%