Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0989796
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Influence of Marine Protected Areas on ecosystem resilience and ecological processes. Australia is implementing a national representative system of marine protected areas (MPAs). The aims of the MPAs include ensuring ecological viability, maintaining ecological processes, and protecting biodiversity. The ability of MPAs to achieve these aims, however, is based largely on theory rather than empirical evidence. Implementation of MPAs is often controversial as it may cause economic hardship to communities dependent on fishing. Our project will benefit environmental managers by determining if and how MPAs influence biodiversity, ecological processes, and ecosystem services and resilience. It will benefit the wider community by providing the rigorous scientific evidence in favour of MPAs that is demanded by stakeholders.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2009
End Date: 05-2013
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $320,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Ecology | Natural Resource Management | Evaluation Of Management Strategies |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Living resources (flora and fauna) | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Rehabilitation of degraded coastal and estuarine areas
