https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 Blue carbon ecosystem monitoring using remote sensing reveals wetland restoration pathways https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:51517 90% accuracy at 0.1 m resolution. At the study site, saltmarsh colonised most suitable areas, increasing by 142% and resulting in 56 tonnes of carbon sequestered, within a 4-year period, providing insight into blue carbon regeneration trajectories. Saltmarsh growth patterns were species-specific, influenced by species’ reproductive and dispersal strategies. Our findings suggested that biotic factors and interactions were important in influencing species’ distributions and succession trajectories. This work can help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of restoration planning and monitoring at coastal wetlands and similar ecosystems worldwide, with the potential to apply this approach to other types of remote sensing imagery and to calculate other rehabilitation co-benefits. Importantly, the method can be used to calculate blue carbon habitat creation following tidal restoration of coastal wetlands.]]> Wed 07 Feb 2024 14:42:29 AEDT ]]> Restoring blue carbon ecosystems unlocks fisheries' potential https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:54490 Tue 27 Feb 2024 15:13:08 AEDT ]]> Estimating the Potential Fishery Benefits from Targeted Habitat Repair: a Case Study of School Prawn (Metapenaeus macleayi) in the Lower Clarence River Estuary https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:47633 Tue 24 Jan 2023 14:24:13 AEDT ]]> Sedimentation, elevation and marsh evolution in a southeastern Australian estuary during changing climatic conditions https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25569 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:35:16 AEDT ]]> Utilisation of a recovering wetland by a commercially important species of penaeid shrimp https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:37463 2), and the average density across the wetland was 244 prawns per 100 m2. All areas of the wetland (except the area closest to the wetland mouth) supported the full range of size classes, and multiple cohorts of prawns moved through the system during the sampling program. The asymmetry observed in the distribution of prawns across the wetland is likely to be due to a combination of water quality and inter-specific interactions. These results show that the recovering wetland is supporting a high abundance of School Prawn. Our estimates of recruitment for School Prawn will also be useful in gauging the potential increases in fisheries productivity arising from habitat repair in this, and other systems.]]> Mon 11 Jan 2021 16:09:20 AEDT ]]>