NESP MaC Project 1.21 - Australia’s Coastal Shorebirds: Trends and Prospects
This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - "Australia’s Coastal Shorebirds: Trends and Prospects". No data outputs were generated by this project.
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Coastal Australia is home to 37 regularly occurring migratory shorebird species, with many protected areas including Ramsar sites designated on the basis of shorebird populations. Many migratory shorebirds are declining rapidly, and hence the focus of conservation efforts at multiple levels of government in Australia and overseas. However, trend data are now nearly 10 years old, meaning the information available to assess where conservation actions are needed most urgently and whether conservation efforts are helping species recover are outdated.
To ensure populations have the best chance at recovery and that resources are allocated where they are most likely to have the greatest positive impacts, it is critical to maintain up-to-date information on species trends. This project analysed 30 years of shorebird monitoring data collected by citizen science groups across Australia and curated by BirdLife Australia’s National Shorebird Monitoring Program to update national trend estimates, while also assessing the relative effects of human pressure and conservation efforts on population trends. In particular, it focused on 15 migratory shorebird species whose conservation status was being reassessed by the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. This project sets the stage for building the next decade of coastal shorebird conservation activity in Australia, coordinated through the national mechanism of the End User: National Migratory Shorebird Conservation Action Plan Steering Committee, with representatives from national and state governments as well as leading shorebird experts.
Outputs
• Fact Sheet on Australia's coastal shorebird trends and prospects [written]
• Final Project Report, including a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-03-01
Resource provider
Principal investigator
- Purpose
- To (1) update shorebird population national trends estimates, (ii) determine whether declines have decelerated through conservation efforts, and (iii) identify regional hotspots of Australian impacts on shorebird populations.
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Credit
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Government
- Credit
- In addition to NESP (DCCEEW) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Time period
- 2021-09-01 2022-08-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Keywords (Theme)
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- migratory species
- threatened species
- population trends
- coastal wetlands
- Wildlife Conservation Plan
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This project was funded by the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) through the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
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- UTF8
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
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Fact Sheet
Fuller RA (2023) Fact sheet – Australia’s coastal shorebirds: trends and prospects. National Environment Science Program Marine Biodiversity Hub.
- OnLine resource
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Final Project Report
Rogers A, Fuller RA and Amano T (2023) Australia’s migratory shorebirds: trends and prospects. Report to the National Environmental Science Program. The University of Queensland, Brisbane.
- OnLine resource
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Project page on NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/7857ff01-9f4e-4fc6-9ce1-db8824fb0292
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- MaC Hub Project 1.21
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/7857ff01-9f4e-4fc6-9ce1-db8824fb0292
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-03-01T12:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-03-03T09:04:52
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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