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General Australia has the third largest area of mangroves in the world. Mangroves are commonly found on the intertidal mud flats along the shores of estuaries, usually in the region between the saltmarshes and seagrass beds. Mangrove trees have adapted to cope with the stress of being periodically inundated with salt water by employing methods of salt secretion, exclusion and accumulation. There are five species of mangroves in NSW, with the Grey Mangrove (Avicennia marina) and the River Mangrove (Aegiceras corniculatum) being the two most common. Mangrove forests are ecologically and commercially important. They provide food and shelter for estuarine fauna; provide habitats for commercially important crustaceans including blue swimmer crabs, king prawns and mud crabs; are important nursery grounds for juvenile fish; filter and trap pollutants and sediments from land run-off thus maintaining estuarine water quality; provide barriers and buffer zones to stabilise shorelines and prevent coastal erosion; they are also a major producer of organic material. Anthropogenic threats to mangroves include trampling, oil pollution, altered freshwater flow regimes and excess nutrient inputs. Protocols The Global Ocean Observing System Leagdsgaard, P. (2003). A guide to monitoring a created wetland
at Kooragang Island, NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation Riley Encased Methodology (REM): an application in shoreline revegetation
and erosion control General guidelines for the restoration of mangrove habitat Costs No standard costs available Case studies Remote Sensing of Mangroves at Port Headland Hyperspectral Remote Mapping and Monitoring of Iron Ore Dust on
mangroves Woodley, J.D. Establishment of Coastal Ecosystem Monitoring Programs:
Lessons Learned by CARICOMP Western Port Bay Mangrove-Salt Marsh Community Remote sensing applications for mapping and monitoring the biological
and physical of Moreton Bay, Port Curtis and the Fitzroy Estuary Earth Science New Millennium Satellite Australian Planning Towards GOOS Short-term monitoring of a simulated oil spill Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre: The Biocomplexity of
Mangroves Generic databases Port of Brisbane Corporation Environmental Monitoring Programs Links to mangrove web pages Ozestuaries Database The Global Mangrove Database and information System Links to mangrove web pages Kluwer Online Journal Database: Mangroves and Saltmarshes Western Australian Mangrove Assessment Project: Mangrove sites
by location People Contacts Dr Neil Saintilan Dr Meg Burchett/Dr Alex Pulkownik Organisation Contacts Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities The Cooperative Research Centre for the Great Barrier Reef World
Heritage Area FRC Environmental Advanced References Gordon, D.M., Bougher, A.R. and LeProvost, M.I. (1995). Use of models for detecting and monitoring change in a mangrove ecosystem in northwestern Australia, Environment International 21 (5) pp605-618. Blasco, F., Saenger, P. and Janodet, E. (1996). Mangroves as indicators of coastal change, CATENA 27(3-4) pp 167-178. Bhattacharya, B, Sarkar, S.K. and Mukherjee, N. (2003). Organochlorine pesticide residues in sediments of a tropical mangrove estuary, India: implications for monitoring, Environment International 29 pp 587-592. Saintilan, N. and Wilton, K. (2001). Changes in the distribution of mangroves and saltmarshes in Jervis Bay, Australia, Wetlands Ecology and Management 9 pp 409-420. |
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