NESP MB Project E6 - Assisting the restoration of seagrasses at Shark Bay

Research Project

Researchers: Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), Australian Government (Resource provider of) ,  Emma Flukes (Point of contact) ,  Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (Associated with) ,  Kendrick, Gary (principalInvestigator) ,  School of Biological Sciences (SBS), The University of Western Australia (UWA) (Associated with)

Full description This record provides an overview of the scope and research data outputs of the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub project "Assisting the restoration of seagrasses at Shark Bay". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
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This project is a collaboration between scientists and the Shark Bay Malgana Indigenous community into jointly developed seeding and shoot planting methods to assist natural recovery of seagrasses in preparation for future devastating impacts of climate change. The Shark Bay World Heritage Site (WHS) is unique globally for its natural values, including stromatolites, seagrass meadows and marine megafauna including dugongs, sharks, turtles, and dolphins. The immediate goal is to scale up the existing restoration research to assist recovery of the dominant seagrasses, Amphibolis antarctica and Posidonia australis following the 2011 marine heat wave.

Planned Outputs
• A seagrass restoration toolkit (multimedia and report format) - will include information on sourcing suitable genetic material
• Data on the trial seed restoration outcomes

Lineage Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned

Notes Credit
Gary Kendrick (UWA), John Statton (UWA), Elizabeth Sinclair (UWA), Ankje Frouw (ECU), Amrit Work (Sustain Nature Communications)

Notes Credit
This project is funded by the Australian Government Department of Climate Agriculture, Water and Energy (DAWE) through the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub. In addition to NESP (DAWE) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.

Data time period: 2019-01-30 to 2021-01-30

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