An inventory of northern Australia’s seagrass data: research report Project 1.32a
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Northern Australia has globally significant seagrass habitat that provide well-documented ecological services, including providing a food resource that underpins the survival of dugong and green sea turtles. Key to understanding, managing, mitigating risk and establishing monitoring of these habitats is reliable data on this resource. Recent National Environmental Science Program (NESP) projects have provided a synthesis of 35 years of seagrass data from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and a 40-year synthesis for Torres Strait and the Gulf of Carpentaria. However, seagrass data for the majority of Northern Territory waters and northern Western Australian waters were not included and remain disparate and not available in an easily accessible database. To begin addressing this, we have created an inventory of projects between Cape Arnhem (Northern Territory) and Ningaloo Reef (Western Australia), where seagrass data is available for inclusion in a synthesis or could be available with further evaluation. This inventory is the first stage in expanding the seagrass data synthesis to cover all of northern Australia. We identify knowledge gaps in the available seagrass data which will assist in designing seagrass mapping and monitoring priorities across northern Australia.
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TropWATER, James Cook University
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