Criteria for effective regional scale catchment to reef management: A case study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef

2021 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 112882
Author(s):  
Colin Creighton ◽  
Jane Waterhouse ◽  
Jon C. Day ◽  
Jon Brodie
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Reef Management

A new approach to the problem of overlapping values: A case study in Australia׳s Great Barrier Reef

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Stoeckl ◽  
Marina Farr ◽  
Silva Larson ◽  
Vanessa M. Adams ◽  
Ida Kubiszewski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
New Approach

Cross-shelf exchanges between the Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef lagoon determined from a regional-scale numerical model

2015 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 150-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Schiller ◽  
Mike Herzfeld ◽  
Richard Brinkman ◽  
Farhan Rizwi ◽  
John Andrewartha
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Model ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Reef Lagoon ◽  
Coral Sea

Avoiding Implementation Failure in Catchment Landscapes: A Case Study in Governance of the Great Barrier Reef

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan P. Dale ◽  
Karen Vella ◽  
Margaret Gooch ◽  
Ruth Potts ◽  
Robert L. Pressey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Implementation Failure

Can paddock scale data integration achieve more cost effective outcomes in the Great Barrier Reef? A case study in the Fitzroy Basin

2017 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 461-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Star ◽  
John Rolfe ◽  
Miriam East ◽  
Terry Beutel ◽  
Kevin McCosker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Integration ◽  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Scale Data

scholarly journals Effects of trawling on sessile megabenthos in the Great Barrier Reef and evaluation of the efficacy of management strategies

2015 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. i115-i126 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Roland Pitcher ◽  
Nick Ellis ◽  
William N. Venables ◽  
Ted J. Wassenberg ◽  
Charis Y. Burridge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Dynamic Modelling ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Management Interventions

Abstract A series of related research studies over 15 years assessed the effects of prawn trawling on sessile megabenthos in the Great Barrier Reef, to support management for sustainable use in the World Heritage Area. These large-scale studies estimated impacts on benthos (particularly removal rates per trawl pass), monitored subsequent recovery rates, measured natural dynamics of tagged megabenthos, mapped the regional distribution of seabed habitats and benthic species, and integrated these results in a dynamic modelling framework together with spatio-temporal fishery effort data and simulated management. Typical impact rates were between 5 and 25% per trawl, recovery times ranged from several years to several decades, and most sessile megabenthos were naturally distributed in areas where little or no trawling occurred and so had low exposure to trawling. The model simulated trawl impact and recovery on the mapped species distributions, and estimated the regional scale cumulative changes due to trawling as a time series of status for megabenthos species. The regional status of these taxa at time of greatest depletion ranged from ∼77% relative to pre-trawl abundance for the worst case species, having slow recovery with moderate exposure to trawling, to ∼97% for the least affected taxon. The model also evaluated the expected outcomes for sessile megabenthos in response to major management interventions implemented between 1999 and 2006, including closures, effort reductions, and protected areas. As a result of these interventions, all taxa were predicted to recover (by 2–14% at 2025); the most affected species having relatively greater recovery. Effort reductions made the biggest positive contributions to benthos status for all taxa, with closures making smaller contributions for some taxa. The results demonstrated that management actions have arrested and reversed previous unsustainable trends for all taxa assessed, and have led to a prawn trawl fishery with improved environmental sustainability.

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