Research Project
Researchers:
Alex B Carter
(principalInvestigator, Point of contact)
,
Anthony Roelofs Pty Ltd
(Associated with)
,
Australian Institute of Marine Science
(Associated with)
,
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
(Associated with)
,
Barrett, David
(collaborator)
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Full description This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - "Synthesizing three decades of seagrass spatial data from Torres Strait and Gulf of Carpentaria". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata. The Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait have globally significant seagrass habitat that provide food for threatened dugong and turtle, and habitat for commercially important fish and prawns. Key to understanding, managing, mitigating risk, and monitoring seagrass in this remote region is reliable data on seagrass distribution and species composition and how these changes through time. Data on seagrass has been collected in these areas since the 1980s, but data location and storage from these efforts remains disparate, in many cases not publicly available, and in some cases has already been lost. Our study will compile, validate and synthesize historical seagrass spatial data to create a publicly available database accessible on eAtlas. This product will provide end-users with a valuable spatial resource to assist management and monitoring of seagrass in the region. (i) Identify key seagrass habitat and migration corridors for dugong and turtles in the Gulf of Carpentaria and Torres Strait. (ii) Identify regions where seagrass information is deficient (knowledge gaps) (iii) create a foundations for models assessing exposure to risk (water quality and other environmental impacts, climate change, etc) (iv) provide essential information for management, planning, and developing long-term monitoring plans Planned Outputs • seagrass data [spatial dataset] • Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]
Notes
Credit
This project was funded by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment through the National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub with co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Data time period: 2021-09-01 to 31 03 2022
Project page
url :
https://www.nespmarinecoastal.edu.au/project/1-13/
NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website
url :
https://www.nespmarinecoastal.edu.au/
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - National Environmental Science Program website
url :
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/science-research/nesp/hub-marine-coastal
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