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Aerial survey shows dugong decline -
Tue 14th Aug 2012
Severe weather along the Queensland coast in the summer of 2010-11 has affected the Great Barrier Reef’s endangered dugong population.
Marine reserves provide baby bonus to fisheries -
Tue 3rd Jul 2012
An international team of scientists, including NERP researchers Garry Russ and Geoffrey Jones, has gathered the first conclusive evidence that marine reserves can help restock exploited fish popul
Mangrove researchers on the move -
Tue 26th Jun 2012
JCU mangrove researchers and leaders of NERP project 2.2, Dr Norm Duke and Dr Damien Burrows, will be attending an international conference on mangrove ecosystems in Sri Lanka in early July.
Wide ranging survey highlights shark biodiversity -
Tue 26th Jun 2012
The Great Barrier Reef shark population is highly diverse and inshore areas in the central section of the marine park play an important role for both juvenile and adult sharks.
Read 'Decision Point' the Environmental Decision Group's magazine -
Fri 1st Jun 2012
Decision Point is The EDG’s monthly magazine presenting articles, views and ideas on environmental decision making, biodiversity, conservation
Climate change and the impacts of extreme events on Australia’s Wet Tropics -
Tue 22nd May 2012
Project 7.3
Project Leader: Justin Welbergen – JCU
Vulnerability of seagrass habitats in the Great Barrier Reef to flood plume impacts: light, nutrients, salinity -
Sat 19th May 2012
Project 5.3
Project Leaders: Catherine Collier, Michelle Devlin and Jorge Alvarez-Romero - JCU
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- Project 1.1 'Monitoring status and trends of coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef' (5)
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- 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)
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