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...
Seabed features such as canyons, seamounts, banks
and shoals provide aggregation points for ocean (pelagic) predators such as tunas and mackerels.
Predictio...
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 ...
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...
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...
IMAGE: Fieldwork on the Adelaide River. Catches of Speartooth Shark were highest in the Adelaide River, with the South Alligator River and Queensland’s Wenl...
IMAGE: Peter Kyne.
Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis), Speartooth Sharks (Glyphis glyphis) and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis garricki) are being studie...
IMAGE: Acoustic and satellite tagging were used to trace White Shark movement patterns, identify habitats, examine growth rates and explore population stru...
