Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0667593
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Building seawalls to sustain intertidal biodiversity in altered and urbanized estuaries. Increased urbanization along Australia's coasts is inevitable. The challenge is to achieve desired levels of development, while sustaining biodiversity. Coastal development increases the amount of shoreline which is altered from natural to built habitat. Seawalls have documented negative effects on intertidal biodiversity. There are, however, options in ways walls can be built, which may reduce these impacts. This project will explore the ways that different types of seawalls affects intertidal biodiversity, using existing sites and planned programmes of construction and repair of seawalls as experiments. This will ensure that recommendations from the research are economically and structurally sound, as well as environmentally valid.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 08-2006
End Date: 05-2011
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $244,500.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Living resources (flora and fauna) | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management |
