Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0455638

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0455638

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Effectiveness of temperate Australian marine protected areas as tools for biodiversity conservation and informing fisheries management. The effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) for biodiversity protection and informing fisheries management will be investigated at a continental scale for the first time. Communities of fishes, invertebrates and plants at >100 sites within MPAs in WA, NSW and Tasmania will be studied from prior to fisheries protection, with changes over time compared with changes at fished reference sites. This study represents a human predator exclusion experiment with a scale sufficiently large to distinguish general patterns from among site specific and species specific variability. It will provide management authorities with information crucial to determining MPA number, size and configuration.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 11-2004

End Date: 06-2007

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $255,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Conservation And Biodiversity | Biogeography | Environmental Science and Management

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Living resources (incl. impacts of fishing on non-target species) | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Marine protected areas |

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