NESP TWQ Project 5.4 - Deriving ecologically relevant targets to meet desired ecosystem condition for the Great Barrier Reef: A case study for seagrass meadows in the Burdekin region, 2019-2020 (JCU)

This project derived Ecologically Relevant Targets (ERTs) for sediment loads for the Burdekin basin and provided the seagrass desired state across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) by;



1. defining seagrass desired state for the GBR;

2. calculating light requirements; and

3. calculating ERTs for terrestrially sourced sediment loads, using Cleveland Bay as a case study.



Historical and new data collections were compiled and used to derive ERTs via statistical models and eReefs Relocatable Coastal Model (RECOM), and the seagrass submodel in eReefs was used to test ERTs.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Identifier

Code
10.82210/924333d4
Codespace
raid.org
Description
Project RAiD
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Principal investigator James Cook University Collier, Catherine catherine.collier@jcu.edu.au
Collaborator James Cook University Carter, Alex
Collaborator The University of Queensland Saunders, Megan
Collaborator The University of Queensland Adams, Matthew
Collaborator The University of Queensland O'Brien, Kate
Collaborator The University of Queensland Lambert, Victoria
Collaborator Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Baird, Mark
Collaborator James Cook University Brodie, Jon
Collaborator James Cook University Rasheed, Michael
Collaborator James Cook University McKenzie, Leonard
Collaborator James Cook University Coles, Rob
Collaborator Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Martin, Katherine
Collaborator James Cook University Grech, Alana
Credit
This project was funded by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment through the National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub with co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Status
complete
Point of contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact James Cook University Collier, Catherine catherine.collier@jcu.edu.au
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment

Extent

Extent

Description
Project extent




Temporal extent

Time period
2019-01-01 2020-12-10T00:00:00Z
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Science Programme Tropical Water Quality (NESP TWQ) hub
Keywords (Theme)
  • marine

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Linkage
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Principal investigator
Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Language
English
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Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Publisher Australian Institute of Marine Science eAtlas Data Manager Voice PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE Townsville Queensland 4810 Australia e-atlas@aims.gov.au
OnLine resource
Project page

OnLine resource
NESP TWQ Hub

OnLine resource
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - National Environmental Science Program website

OnLine resource
Project photo gallery

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/6dc4808f-0281-4100-aa2d-91a5b707c195

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) eAtlas Data Manager Voice PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE Townsville Queensland 4810 Australia e-atlas@aims.gov.au
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Type of resource

Resource scope
Field session
Name
NESP TWQ Project 5.4
Metadata linkage
https://eatlas.org.au/data/6dc4808f-0281-4100-aa2d-91a5b707c195/

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Date info (Creation)
2024-02-05 00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-02-06T08:55:55Z

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Green Island near Cairns supports a high diversity of seagrass species that form dense meadows in intertidal and shallow subtidal areas around the island.

Spatial extent

Keywords

marine


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