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Life in a Changing Ocean (LiCO), the successor to the Census of Marine Life, is being designed to ensure that discoveries made during the census are put to good use in policy and planning.
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Since 2008, the Australian Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey (AusCPR) has crossed 110,000 kilometres of ocean and collected a new copepod species: kick-starting the first marine plankton baseline for Australia. Its expansion offers tailor-made opportunities to assess the status of the marine food web in key locations.
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Rodent eradication could be at least 10 times more cost effective than area closures in conserving seabird populations affected by Australia’s Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery (ETBF).
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A review of seabed studies has found that governments and regulators regard habitat mapping as a useful means of measuring and monitoring change in the marine environment.
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Australia’s Dusky Skate (Pavoraja umbrosa) occupies a pocket of continental slope off eastern Australia, far removed from its sister species the Sandy Skate (Pavoraja arenaria) in the Great Australian Bight, and Allen’s Skate (Pavoraja alleni) off Western Australia. |
