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Exploring the origins of Australian marine diversity

IMAGE: A fossil of an extinct ray. The maskrays originated after the collision of the Australian and Eurasian plates and their speciation may have been acc...

First maps of biodiversity across Australia’s seafloor

IMAGE: Uroptychus spinirostris is an endemic species of squat lobster that occurs across northern Australia at about 400 m depth. Images: Anna McCallum, Mu...

Map of Australia showing change in seismic surveys.

Collating existing pressure data for the Commonwealth marine area

Understanding the pressures on the marine environment and their change over time is an important part of developing and prioritising management actions. IMAG...

Diagrams showing trawled regions over a period of 20 years.

Assessing relative and cumulative impact on the marine environment

Pressures on the marine environment are steadily increasing with new uses including renewable energy and new pressures including warming and more acidic seas....

Biodiversity offsets in the marine environment

On land, biodiversity offsets are an established instrument for reconciling economic development with biodiversity conservation. In the marine environment, ho...

People of boat and a swimmer underwater.

Potential for incentive-based management for marine conservation

IMAGE: Some tourism-based industries, such as dive and day boat trips in the Great Barrier Reef, pay a bond to operate in environmentally sensitive areas. Ima...

Landscape approaches for managing sharks and rays

The Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Sphyrna lewini. Image: CSIRO Many species of sharks and rays are slow-growing, long-lived, and have low rates of reproduct...

Chart showing Western Australia and grid of predicted fish abundance.

Identifying important areas for pelagic fish

Seabed features such as canyons, seamounts, banks and shoals provide aggregation points for ocean (pelagic) predators such as tunas and mackerels. Predictio...

Predicting benthic impacts and recovery to support biodiversity management in the South-east Marine Region

Many animals and plants live attached to the seabed where they form benthic habitats used by a diversity of other species. These habitats can be affected by ...