McKenna, S.A., Sozou, A.M., Scott, E.L., and Rasheed, M.A. (2016) Annual Seagrass Monitoring in the Mackay-Hay Point Region – 2015. Report. TropWATER, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia.

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Abstract

[Extract] A long-term seagrass monitoring program and strategy was developed for the Mackay-Hay Point region following a broad-scale baseline survey of the region in 2014. The program builds on seagrass monitoring that had been conducted at offshore areas around the Port of Hay Point since 2005, as well as coastal surveys conducted in 2010 and 2011.

The new annual monitoring strategy assesses five offshore monitoring areas between Mackay and Hay Point, an inshore region between Dudgeon Point and Hay Point, and two inshore subtidal meadows at the Keswick Island group. Seagrass meadows in these areas represent the range of different seagrass community types found in the Mackay-Hay Point region. These seagrass meadows are assessed for change in biomass, area and species composition. The offshore monitoring meadow in the Port of Hay Point has a long history of monitoring and a well-established baseline level of change for formal analysis and condition reporting. For the other meadows, 2015 was the first monitoring year since the 2014 baseline, and natural ranges of change are still being established.

Item ID:	80185
Item Type:	Report (Report)
Copyright Information:	© James Cook University, 2016.
Date Deposited:	30 Aug 2023 01:26
FoR Codes:	41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 4104 Environmental management > 410402 Environmental assessment and monitoring @ 100%
SEO Codes:	18 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT > 1802 Coastal and estuarine systems and management > 180201 Assessment and management of coastal and estuarine ecosystems @ 100%
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