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NESP MB Project B4 - Underpinning the repair and conservation of Australia’s threatened coastal-marine habitats

This record provides an overview of the scope and research output of NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project B4 - "Underpinning the repair and conservation of Australia’s threatened coastal-marine habitats". For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.


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The primary objective of this project is to provide essential research to underpin restoration efforts to increase the success and efficiency of shellfish and saltmarsh repair. The secondary objective is to quantify clear easily understood benefits of repair to further increase groundswell, Indigenous and interest group support for repair efforts. For Phase 2 this involves:


Shellfish reefs

1. Providing critical research to underpin the success of companion works investments into Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea glomerata) restoration in Qld and NSW

2. Ongoing engagement with Indigenous groups, focused around especially SEQ and NSW to match the emphasis on Sydney rock oyster;

3. Through the Nature Conservancy, linking to shellfish restoration works in Port Phillip Bay (Vic), St Vincent’s Gulf (SA) and Oyster Harbour (WA) so that a National Business Case complete with examples of successes to date can be developed;

4. Underpinning this succinct business case with an information base for any follow-on activities such as assessment of shellfish reefs as an endangered community.


Salt marshes

1. Estimating the benefits of salt marsh repair for an easily publicly understood indicator - prawn species.

2. Undertaking this work in NSW and Qld in parallel with proposed repair works so that very concrete case studies are available to demonstrate the benefits of repair.


Planned Outputs


Shellfish reef project outputs:

• A scientific paper published in an eminent, peer-reviewed journal describing the ecology and biodiversity of shellfish reefs and biodiversity comparison against other marine habitats;

• A scientific paper published in an eminent, peer-reviewed journal which identifies trajectories of change from past baselines to current condition and develops achievable targets for repair;

• News stories, web articles, social media, brochures and oral presentations at national/international conferences, which communicate the key research findings to coastal stakeholders such as fishers, divers, NRM groups and government agencies;

• News stories, web articles and social media which communicate the importance of shellfish reefs and shellfish food sources to Indigenous Australians;

• Summary of community benefit and business propositions for coastal wetland repair expanding on the vision of a rejuvenated coastal ecology and written at the level required for input to various investors, agencies and public policy;

• Updates at the end of 2016 as part of stakeholder engagement and continued communication.


Salt marsh prawn productivity outputs:

• A scientific paper published in an eminent, peer-reviewed journal quantifying and contrasting prawn productivity in healthy and degraded salt marsh communities in tropical and temperate environments;

• Publicly accessible communication resources (brochures, social media, media releases and webpages) which articulate simply the prawn productivity values of salt marshes and links this to the need for the protection, conservation and restoration of degraded salt marsh communities.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-03-23

Resource provider

Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE), Australian Government
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy
GPO Box 787
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Purpose
This project will provide base information required to inform and scope large-scale repair investment opportunities for Australia’s most threatened coastal marine habitats. Equally importantly, it will be paralleled by investments in hands-on repair in a number of small to medium scale projects.
Credit
Colin Creighton (James Cook University), Chris Gillies (The Nature Conservancy), Ian McLeod (James Cook University), Ben Diggles (SEQ Shellfish), Matt Taylor, Carla Wiegsheidl
Credit
National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Credit
Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government
Credit
In addition to NESP (DoE) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Status
On going

Principal investigator

Centre for Tropical Waters and Aquatic Research (TropWATER), James Cook University (JCU) - Creighton, Colin, Dr (Project Leader (saltmarsh))
117 Lex Creek Road
Crediton
Queensland
4757
Australia
+61 418225894
+61 7 49584775
Scopus URI >

Principal investigator

Centre for Tropical Waters and Aquatic Research (TropWATER), James Cook University (JCU) - McLeod, Ian, Dr (Project Leader (shellfish))
James Cook University
Townsville
Queensland
4810
Australia
+61 (0) 7 4781 5474
ORCID ID >

Point of contact

The Nature Conservacy - Gillies, Chris, Dr (participant)
PO Box 57
Carlton South
Victoria
3053
Australia
Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

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Temporal extent

Time period
2015-07-01 2018-01-01
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Conservation and Biodiversity
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Keywords (Theme)
  • shellfish reefs
  • restoration ecology
  • ecosystem repair
  • salt marsh
  • net primary productivity (NPP)

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The data collections described in this record are funded by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE) through the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub.

Resource constraints

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License Graphic

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License


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Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

License Text

Character encoding
UTF8

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement

Distribution Information

Distribution format
OnLine resource
NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project B4 webpage

OnLine resource
Department of the Environment and Energy NESP website

Metadata

Metadata identifier
4fde31ee-7a51-4029-8e32-c020dfce56f8

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Emma Flukes (NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Data Manager)
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Parent metadata
  • National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity (MB) Hub - Funding Program 2015-2021

Type of resource

Resource scope
Field session
Name
MB Hub Project B4
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4fde31ee-7a51-4029-8e32-c020dfce56f8

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2020-10-13T16:21:01
Date info (Revision)
2020-10-13T16:21:01

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

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Keywords

ecosystem repair net primary productivity (NPP) restoration ecology salt marsh shellfish reefs

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