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Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2003
10.7882/FS.2003.005
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-6-5
... The capacity of human activities to have significant impact on marine environments was not regarded as a serious issue until the middle of the 20th century. It is now regarded as a matter of increasing urgency but the evolution of appropriate management measures presents several challenges...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2003
10.7882/FS.2003.010
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-6-5
... on the communities of the GBR. Although our knowledge of the biota of the marine environment is limited, we must act now to manage and conserve it. We cannot wait until the identification and biology of all marine organisms has been documented. One of the next steps is to bring the marine environment into our mind...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2003
10.7882/FS.2003.015
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-6-5
... habitats, and the need for sustainable management of our marine resources. The challenge is also to acknowledge the great time scale on which the marine environment functions and its immense geographical scale, not to mention the long-term contribution of the scientific imagination in everything from...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2003
10.7882/9780958608565
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-6-5
Journal Articles
Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 188–193.
Published: 01 January 2018
... marine protected boundaries. The source of most productivity differs; in terrestrial systems it is all attached whereas in the marine environment much occurs in the water column and cannot be restrained by artificial boundaries. This has major implications for the management of marine protected areas...
Book Chapter
Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2002
10.7882/FS.2002.007
EISBN: 978-0-9586085-3-4
... research projects. Bioprospectors can also emphasize the need for conservation by increasing the community's appreciation for marine biodiversity. Nevertheless, bioprospecting will only be compatible with conservation objectives if it can be shown to have no negative impacts on the environment...
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Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (1-2): 3–41.
Published: 17 March 2014
... of the aquatic fauna. In freshwater creeks and rivers the native fauna has declined in abundance, while introduced species have spread throughout the catchment. In estuarine and marine environments, the fauna associated with clear water, low siltation rates, and seagrass beds has declined and species that were...
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Australian Zoologist (2011) 34 (3): 303–313.
Published: 14 October 2011
... metamorphosed frogs were observed during the late summer survey in 2003. Litoria aurea bred in brackish water having a salinity of 3 parts per thousand and existed within an environment that contained marine species of fish. A subset of three sites was resurveyed in November 2003 and February 2004 and 2007...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 2010
10.7882/FS.2010.013
EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6
... encounter or even be aware of. Thus, the conservation and management of an urban fauna is fundamentally different from that required outside the urban environment, with not only a far greater diversity of species to be responsible for, but one with very different cultural, educational and social objectives. ...
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Series: Other RZS NSW Publications
Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
Published: 01 January 1999
10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.048
EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2
... criteria (such as those used by IUCN) to invertebrates. Of particular concern was the difficulty of assessing effective population size or the number of individuals. While it was considered impossible to produce guidelines that cover all taxa or environments, it was agree d that the same basic criteria...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 173–180.
Published: 01 January 2018
... climate change (State of the Environment 2011 Committee 2011; Beeton et al. 2012; GBRMPA 2014). Management responses to these threats and their impacts aim to remove or mitigate the threat, remediate damage already done, or protect biodiversity from future harm. The focus of this paper is marine protected...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 181–187.
Published: 01 January 2018
...) and guidelines for applying these categories to MPAs (IUCN Marine Protected Areas Guidelines). Global Context for MPAs MPAs and area based management tools such as marine spatial planning are at the leading edge of global efforts to secure more effective conservation and management of the marine environment...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 663–675.
Published: 02 April 2024
.../10.1016/j. hal.2022.102316 Kremen, C. 2005. Managing ecosystem services: what do we need to know about their ecology? Ecological Letters 8: 468-79. httpsdoi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00751.x Lagos, M.E., Barneche, D.R., White, C.R., and Marshall, D.J. 2017. Do low oxygen environments facilitate marine...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 1–675.
Published: 04 October 2024
... but not richness of colonising organisms on marine structures. Journal Environmental Management 307: httpsdoi.org/10.1016/j. jenvman.2022.114549 Duarte, C.M., Losada, I.J., Hendriks, I.E., Mazarrasa, I., and Marbà, N. 2013. The role of coastal plant communities for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Nature...
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Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (2): 170–172.
Published: 01 January 2018
... the protection that marine reserves confer, because they are not threatened by processes that can be effectively managed by marine reserves. Better conservation investments are likely to be made if researchers critically evaluate basic assumptions, and design their research to address real information needs...
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Australian Zoologist (2013) 36 (2): 242–246.
Published: 07 February 2013
... on how the marine environment works and how it can be better managed. This requires a thorough understanding of the way plants, animals and micro-organisms function in marine ecosystems (including estuarine, coastal, oceanic and coral reef ecosystems and Antarctica), as well as the skills required...
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Australian Zoologist (2024) 43 (4): 626–630.
Published: 26 January 2024
... of jellyfish: Scyphozoa except Stauromedusae. Dölling und Galitz Verlag: Hamburg. Joyce, K.E., Duce, S., Leahy, S.M., Leon, J. and Maier, S.W. 2018. Principles and practice of acquiring drone-based image data in marine environments. Marine and Freshwater Research 70(7): 952-963. httpsdoi.org/10.1071/MF17380...