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The NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub will participate in the first global assessment of the state of the marine environment. The first regional workshop for the South Pacific is planned for early 2013. |
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A team of NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub researchers from the University of Tasmania, Geoscience Australia and CSIRO has been testing new monitoring approaches in phase one of the Flinders Marine Reserve field survey. |
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NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub researchers are contributing to a global conservation strategy for sawfishes: perhaps the world’s most threatened fish family, with all seven species listed on the IUCN Red List as Critically Endangered. |
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Submarine canyons, often rich and productive, have been identified in the Australian Government’s marine bioregional plans as areas of relatively high productivity and marine life aggregation. But few canyons around Australia have had their bathymetry mapped in detail or been biologically sampled. |
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Brittle stars and squat lobsters may sound like tough yoga, but these ubiquitous seabed creatures are the basis of a global mapping initiative supported by the Census of Marine Life (CoML). |