Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0562121
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Developing tools for assessing ecological performance of marine protected areas. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are rapidly being established around Australia as a device to conserve marine biodiversity. Their ability to sustain animal and plant populations depends critically on the ability of populations to replenish themselves, but we have no ready way of assessing replenishment, relying instead on simple counts of animals and plants within MPAs as a measure of their success. We propose a new measure, using relationships between adult stocks and recruitment, as a way of assessing the long-term success of MPAs. We will test this measure using comparisons among marine national parks that were established recently in Victoria.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 09-2006
End Date: 12-2009
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $96,067.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecology | Conservation
