IMAGE: The Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Image: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
Establishing an integrated monitoring framework for the G...
Under the Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA v4.0), Australia’s marine environment was classified into bioregions that make s...
Seabed features such as canyons, seamounts, banks
and shoals provide aggregation points for ocean (pelagic) predators such as tunas and mackerels.
Predictio...
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...
The carbonate banks, terraces and pinnacles of the study area experience frequent disturbance from tropical cyclones and tidal currents driven by some of A...
IMAGE: Parrotfish school over typical reef habitat in depths of 10─20m at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands. Image: Reef Life Survey.
A suite of compleme...
IMAGE: Thicklip Trevally (Carangoides orthogrammus), Solitary Islands. Image: Reef Life Survey.
An important part of establishing monitoring protocols is t...
Photographs and video provide a safe, non-destructive and efficient way to examine and monitor marine habitats, and are particularly useful in areas protected...
IMAGE: Key Ecological Features represent areas of significant biodiversity or ecological functioning and integrity within Commonwealth waters.
Austral...
