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NESP MaC Project 1.3 - Support for Parks Australia’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement System for Australian Marine Parks (CSIRO)

Dates

Start Date
01-Sep-2021
End Date
31-Mar-2022

Titles

Title
NESP MaC Project 1.3 - Support for Parks Australia’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement System for Australian Marine Parks (CSIRO)
Title Type
Primary
Title Type:
Primary
 Preferred full description or abstract.
Start Date
01-Sep-2021
End Date
31-Mar-2022
Language
English

Descriptions

Description

The system of marine parks that spans Australia’s Commonwealth waters is among the largest in the world. These parks play a major role in conserving marine life, supporting commercial and recreational activities, and protecting cultural values significant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Parks Australia has developed management plans for five regional Australian Marine Park (AMP) networks (North, North-west, South-west, South-east and Temperate East) and the Coral Sea Marine Park (CSMP). Under each management plan, a science plan sets priorities for monitoring and research to evaluate management effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement. This prioritisation is vital given the limited knowledge across many AMPs, the technical challenges and high costs of science in remote areas, and the finite resources available for park management.

Building on foundational work from the NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub (projects SS2 and D7), this project delivered the scientific and technical advice needed to establish monitoring priorities for natural values and pressures across all AMP networks and the CSMP—completing a full national priority list for monitoring. It applied a nationally consistent four-step prioritisation framework that considered ecological importance, vulnerability to pressures, baseline data availability, and logistical feasibility. The project also updated the National Ecosystem model and Pressures & Activities datasets, conducted expert vulnerability assessments, and produced a Relative Cumulative Impact index. The combined research delivers a nationally accepted "common language" to describe natural values and pressures and a science-based method to derive monitoring priorities, aligned with the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement (MERI) system—an adaptive management framework that is globally unique and a significant step towards adaptive, integrated, place-based management.

Key outputs include a national database of environmental and human-use data for each management region and a refined list of monitoring priorities for each AMP Network and the CSMP. The findings highlight major knowledge gaps—particularly in the distribution of mesophotic and rariphotic reefs, intertidal ecosystems, and recreational fishing impacts—and provide guidance for improving baseline data and pressure assessments. The prioritisation framework and data products developed through this project can be re-generated over time alongside improvements in the evidence base and our understanding of how ecosystems respond to multi-sectoral activities to support continual improvement in iterative, evidence-based park management and environmental outcomes.
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Position
Co-investigator or Collaborator
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End Date
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Organisations

Organisation ID
https://ror.org/026nh4520
Roles
Role
Lead Research Organisation
Role:
Lead Research Organisation
 The research organistion administratively responsible for the project; administering organisation
Start Date
2021-09-01
End Date
2022-03-31
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Role
Lead Research Organisation
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End Date
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Citation

Dunstan, P., & Hayes, K. (2023). Marine pressures operating within Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.
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https://doi.org/10.25959/NMVE-SF04
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Dataset
Categories
Output
Citation

Dunstan, P., & Hayes, K. (2023). Parks Australia's Natural Values Ecosystems [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.
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https://doi.org/10.25959/HEKR-NR42
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Dataset
Categories
Output

Alternate Identifier

No Entries

Alternate URLs

Related RAiDs

Title
Marine and Coastal Hub (10.71821/418be95a)
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Access

Type
Open Access
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Open Access
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Text
Embargo Expiry

Subjects

Subject
Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology) (310305)
Keywords
Subject
Environmental assessment and monitoring (410402)
Keywords
Text
monitoring priorities
Language
eng
Text
Natural Values
Language
eng
Subject
Environmental management (410404)
Keywords
Text
Management Effectiveness (ME)
Language
eng
Text
Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement (MERI)
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eng

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