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Theme 3 'Managing for resilient tropical systems'
Research undertaken within Theme 3 will provide knowledge and options to assist key decision makers in government, industry and the community in managing the complex ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef, the Wet Tropics rainforest (including the World Heritage Area) and Torres Strait. Theme 3 draws on the assessment of ecological condition and trends undertaken in Theme 1 and the improved understanding of ecosystem function and cumulative pressures from Theme 2. Theme 3 will provide tools and information for evidence-based decision making that address the pressures and sustains resilient ecological, social and economic systems.
Examples of expected benefits:
The expected outcomes of this research are highly relevant to the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report’s identified key issues and risks: fisheries impacts and the zoning plan.
This research will also feed directly into management effectiveness and ecosystem resilience chapters of the Great Barrier Reef Outlook report; sustainable development in the Torres Strait; management of invasive species in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area; and biosecurity planning to protect Australian ecosystems from species moving through the Torres Strait.
Theme 3 consists of five Programs:
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- Project 1.1 'Monitoring status and trends of coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef' (5)
- Project 1.2 'Marine wildlife management in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area' (2)
- Project 10.2 'Socio-economic systems and reef resilience' (1)
- Project 11.1 'Building resilient communities for Torres Strait futures' (2)
- Project 11.2 'Improved approaches for detection of disease and prevention of spread in Torres Strait' (1)
- Project 13.1 'e-Atlas for the Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait' (1)
- Project 2.1 'Marine turtles and dugongs of the Torres Strait' (4)
- Project 2.2. 'Mangrove and freshwater habitat status of Torres Strait islands' (1)
- Project 2.3 'Monitoring the health of Torres Strait coral reefs' (3)
- Project 3.1 'Rainforest Biodiversity' (1)
- Project 3.3 'Targeted surveys for missing and critically endangered rainforest frogs in ecotonal areas, and assessment of whether populations are recovering from disease' (1)
- Project 4.2 'The chronic effects of pesticides and their persistence in tropical waters' (2)
- Project 4.3 'Ecological risk assessment of pesticides, nutrients and sediments on water quality and ecosystem health - Phase 1' (2)
- Project 4.4 'Hazard assessment for water quality threats to Torres Strait marine waters, ecosystems and public health' (1)
- Project 5.2 'Experimental and field investigations of combined water quality and climate effects on corals and other reef organisms' (1)
- Project 5.3 'Vulnerability of seagrass habitats in the Great Barrier Reef to flood plume impacts: light, nutrients, salinity' (1)
- Project 6.2 'Drivers of juvenile shark biodiversity and abundance in inshore ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef' (1)
- Project 7.2 'Invasive species risks and responses in the Wet Tropics' (1)
- Project 7.3 'Climate change and the impacts of extreme climatic events on Australia's Wet Tropics biodiversity' (1)
- Project 8.2 'Do no-take marine reserves contribute to biodiversity and fishery sustainability? Assessing the effects of management zoning on inshore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park' (2)
- Project 8.3 'Significance of no-take marine protected areas to regional recruitment and population persistence on the Great Barrier Reef' (1)
- Project 9.3 'Prioritising management actions for Great Barrier Reef islands' (1)
- Project 9.4 'Conservation planning for a changing coastal zone' (1)