Canyons: identifying connectivity patterns for management

Video: Geomorphology - Carnarvon Shelf Flythrough movie showing the bathymetry of Carnarvon shelf, highlighting benthic habitats at Point Cloates. The ba...

Feature: Modelling connectivity

Modelling connectivity ABOVE: Simulated larval dispersal in a column of water located near the Gascoyne Commonwealth Marine Reserve (Cape Range Canyon and Ca...

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 ...

Analysis of approaches for monitoring biodiversity in the Commonwealth marine area: Oceanic Shoals

Carbonate banks and terraces of the Van Diemen Rise and the Sahul Shelf, and pinnacles of the Bonaparte Basin (North and North-west marine regions) are Key Ec...

Marine monitoring blueprint: meeting a monumental challenge

IMAGE: Key Ecological Features represent areas of significant biodiversity or ecological functioning and integrity within Commonwealth waters. Austral...

Applying spatially balanced survey designs to monitor indicators in Commonwealth marine reserves

Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) network covers 2.76 million km2 of continental shelf, slope, and abyssal habitat. The shelf provides a mosaic...

Surveys of Commonwealth marine reserves: Flinders

The Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) east of Tasmania’s Cape Barren Island stretches some 600 kilometres and covers an area of 27,000 km2. IMAGE ...