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Blue Carbon Opportunities For The Lower Shoalhaven River, Ryan Cope
Blue Carbon Opportunities For The Lower Shoalhaven River, Ryan Cope
Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses
Blue Carbon Ecosystems (BCE) play an important role as profound carbon reservoirs and have the potential to sequester more carbon in an area than any other ecosystem. This has sparked interest in these ecosystems and their potential for use in climate mitigation strategies and more specifically, carbon abatement. BCEs can be restored in areas which have been tidally modified through anthropogenic interventions. One such location which has experienced anthropogenic tidal regime modification is the Lower Shoalhaven River region - a region that has a broad floodplain with many floodgates separating rivers, creeks, and associated tributaries from the tidal influences of …
Geomorphic Evolution And The Role Of Organic Matter In A Temperate Supratidal Melaleuca Wetland: Corner Inlet, Vic, Zachary Nagel-Tynan
Geomorphic Evolution And The Role Of Organic Matter In A Temperate Supratidal Melaleuca Wetland: Corner Inlet, Vic, Zachary Nagel-Tynan
Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses
Coastal wetlands are highly productive ecosystems with an exceptional capacity for sequestering organic matter in the accumulating substrate. Recent studies have focused on intertidal saltmarsh and mangrove communities with limited research extending to the supratidal wetland forests, especially in temperature regions. The overall aim to fill the knowledge gap present in current literature by addressing two aims. The aims of this study is to (1) determine the processes driving the development and persistence of supratidal wetland forests in Corner Inlet, Victoria, Australia; and (2) reconstruct the historic vegetation shifts that have occurred in the embayment over the Holocene. A combination …
Vegetation Community And Sediment Dynamics At Ukerebagh Island, Tweed Heads, Campbell Young
Vegetation Community And Sediment Dynamics At Ukerebagh Island, Tweed Heads, Campbell Young
Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses
An increasing trend of mangrove expansion into saltmarsh communities has been observed in south-eastern Australia as part of a worldwide trend of woody vegetation encroachment on grasslands (Saintilan & Rogers 2013). Changes in coastal wetland vegetation communities as a result of sea-level rise are likely to alter ‘blue carbon’ sequestration rates, depending on sediment supply, primary productivity and the inherent ability of vegetation to adjust to regional hydrologic and geomorphic changes. The rate of sediment supply, both mineral and organic, many not meet the requirements to fill ‘accommodation space’ created by relative sea-level rise (Woodroffe et al. 2016). Changes …
Modelling The Effect Of Sea Level On Se Australian Coastal Wetlands: A Multistage Model Validation And Comparison Study, Laura Mogensen
Modelling The Effect Of Sea Level On Se Australian Coastal Wetlands: A Multistage Model Validation And Comparison Study, Laura Mogensen
Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses
As the rate of sea-level rise is set to accelerate, there is increasing concern regarding the long- term sustainability of coastal wetlands. The validity of a model to reliably represent a particular wetland system considered to be vulnerable is crucial to support efficient management. The primary aim of this study was to examine the adequacy of numerical models in predicting the response of a SE Australian wetland to rising sea levels. A multistage validation process was employed to assess the operational and conceptual validity of three models for the Australian context, with specific focus on the Sea Level Affecting Marshes …
An Integrated Approach To Assess The Vulnerability Of Mangrove And Saltmarsh To Sea-Level Rise At Minnamurra Nsw, Thomas Oliver
An Integrated Approach To Assess The Vulnerability Of Mangrove And Saltmarsh To Sea-Level Rise At Minnamurra Nsw, Thomas Oliver
Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses
Mangrove and saltmarsh communities are essential components of estuarine ecosystems on the NSW south coast. Globally, projected sea level rise under IPCC climate scenarios pose a significant threat to the survival of mangrove and saltmarsh ecosystems. The resilience of mangrove and saltmarsh to the impacts of sea-level rise is dependent upon the maintenance of their elevation with respect to rising water levels and their ability to migrate landwards and requires further analysis. An integrated vulnerability assessment of the mangrove and saltmarsh at Minnamurra River, NSW, was undertaken to assess the resilience of mangrove and saltmarsh to the impacts of sea-level …