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Large-scale shoreline surveys and monitoring of mangrove ecosystems to assess impacts of sea level rise, severe storms, and oil spills. This includes evaluating extent, biodiversity, biomass (carbon), health, ecosystem services, and pressures affecting mangrove habitats.

Monitoring mangrove ecosystems for environmental changes

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Mangroves are crucial for coastal ecosystems, providing nursery habitats, protecting shorelines, and acting as significant carbon sinks.

Our projects focus on monitoring, assessing, and restoring mangrove ecosystems to address environmental changes and impacts. We provide expert advice, conduct detailed floristic surveys, and develop effective mitigation strategies to support conservation and sustainable management efforts.

Mangroves

This project identifies potential wetland restoration sites between Cairns and Gladstone.

Scoping coastal wetlands and suitable trees for blue carbon restoration

Monitoring

COMING SOON

Large-scale shoreline surveys and monitoring of mangrove ecosystems to assess impacts of sea level rise, severe storms, and oil spills. This includes evaluating extent, biodiversity, biomass (carbon), health, ecosystem services, and pressures affecting mangrove habitats.

Monitoring mangrove ecosystems for environmental changes

Monitoring

COMING SOON

Identifying causes, drivers, and severity of mangrove damage for effective mitigation and restoration. Assessing threats to adjoining mangrove areas and estimating recovery time for mangroves to return to a healthy state.

Forensic assessments of mangrove damage

Research

COMING SOON

Providing environmental managers and policymakers with expert advice on the presence and importance of mangroves in specific areas. Assessing risks to mangroves near operational works like dredging or reclamation and recommending monitoring systems to ensure construction activities proceed with appropriate warnings if necessary.

Expert advice on mangroves and tidal wetlands

Research

COMING SOON

Conducting floristic surveys for biogeographic, taxonomic, and productivity investigations of mangrove ecosystems. Offering specific advice on species identification from ad hoc collections and large field surveys, including naming unidentified plants. Surveys cover mangrove structure and biomass, carbon sequestration, permanent forest plots, rapid leaf removal census, water mouse presence, and investigations into phenology, wood growth rings, and eDNA.

Floristic surveys of mangrove ecosystems

Research

COMING SOON

Research

Canning A, & Duke NC.

Mangroves

Southern Great Barrier Reef Mangrove and Saltmarsh Condition Survey 2023.

Chung CTY, Hope P, Hutley LB, Brown J, Duke NC.

Mangroves

Future climate change will increase risk to mangrove health in Northern Australia.

Duke NC, Mackenzie JR, Canning,A, Hutley LB, Bourke AJ, Kovacs J, Cormier R, Staben G, Lymburner L, Ai E.

Mangroves

ENSO-driven extreme oscillations in mean sea level destabilise critical shoreline mangroves – An emerging threat.

Clough B, Amir AA, Chong VC, Duke NC, Field CD, Kjerfve B, Lee SY, Sasekumar A, Wong SC, Yong JWH, Gong WK.

Mangroves

OBITUARY Dr Ong Jin Eong (August 28, 1943 – August 5, 2021).

Gauthey A, Backes D, Balland J, Alam I, Maher DT, Cernusak LA, Duke NC, Medlyn BE, Tissue DT, Choat B.

Mangroves

The role of hydraulic failure in a massive mangrove die-off event.

He Z, Feng X, Chen Q, et al.

Mangroves

Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes.

Rajan P, Duke NC, Mathew S, Cherian E.

Mangroves

Bruguiera x rhynchopetala (Rhizophoraceae) newly reported in India, far west of south-east Asian, east Asian and western pacific regions.

Wang Z-Z, Guo Z-X, Zhong C-R, Lyu H-M, Li X-N, Duke NC, Shi S-H.

Mangroves

Genomic variation patterns of subspecies defined by phenotypic criteria: Analyses of the mangrove species complex, Avicennia marina.

Reports and publications

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