A new study has, for the first time, put a value on the contribution of coastal ecosystems to the diet of fish, estimating it is worth $80 million a year to Australian fisheries. The study by researchers at Deakin University’s Centre for Integrative Ecology in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences looked at seagrass,Read more
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Continue reading … Dr. Mel Wartman from the Blue Carbon Lab wrote a community engagement piece about Blue Carbon and the #VicWetlandRehab Program for Connected to Port Phillip. The Connected to Port Phillip initiative, from Remember The Wild, aims to inspire new and stronger connections with the extraordinary ecosystem of Port Phillip Bay and support those whoRead more
The Blue Carbon Lab headed back down to Avalon in mid-November 2019 to continue to monitor gas fluxes from the 6 different types of vegetated coastal ecosystems. The ecosystems monitored included tussock, shrubland, hypersaline, herbland, coastal dry and salt ponds. The team is monitoring a total of 54 plots, taking soil greenhouse gas measurements everyRead more
In early November 2019, Wadawurrung Aboriginal Corporation (WAC) hosted an On Country meeting at Point Lillias to discuss management options with project partners. The team took this opportunity to walk around the site to identify areas that are an issue, and discuss different management options to protect important cultural heritage sites and improve native biodiversity.Read more
The Blue Carbon Lab is about to embark in a 3 year program to disentangle the mechanisms underpinning the formation and stabilisation of coastal blue carbon. The program has been funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant scheme and will combine advanced analytical chemistry with environmental microbiology to examine the composition, formation andRead more
After three years of research, a team of leading marine experts from Deakin University and The Nature Conservancy have released a watershed report describing and mapping the economic value provided by the coastal wetlands of southeast Australia. The report “Mapping Ocean Wealth Australia”, details the importance of saltmarsh, seagrass and mangrove environments for Australia’s (1)Read more
