About the Authors

Stewart J. Fallon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

stewart.fallon@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Andrew J. McDougall

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, Bundaberg, QLD, Australia

Tom Espinoza

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, Bundaberg, QLD, Australia

David T. Roberts

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Seqwater, Ipswich, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Steven Brooks

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Peter K. Kind

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Mark J. Kennard

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Nick Bond

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, The Murray-Darling Basin Freshwater Research Centre, Latrobe University, Albury-Wodonga, Victoria, Australia

Sharon M. Marshall

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, Bundaberg, QLD, Australia

Dan Schmidt

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Jane Hughes

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist in considering their commercial partner. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.