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Monitoring The Post-Fire Recovery And Regeneration Of Mangrove Communities In Batemans Marine Park, Annabel Green
Monitoring The Post-Fire Recovery And Regeneration Of Mangrove Communities In Batemans Marine Park, Annabel Green
Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses
The Black Summer Bushfires of 2019-2020, was the worst bushfire season on record for New South Wales, with 5.5 million hectares of land burnt. These fires were so extreme that many areas never before affected by fires were impacted. This included mangrove communities, previously believed to be too moist to catch fire. Little is known about the response of mangroves to bushfires and very few studies have been undertaken to investigate this topic. This event provided a rare opportunity to study fire-affected mangroves and how they respond to fire events in the short-term. This study assessed the recovery and regeneration …
Monitoring Intertidal Wetland Vegetation Using A Range Of Remote Sensing Datasets, Louisa Lovasz
Monitoring Intertidal Wetland Vegetation Using A Range Of Remote Sensing Datasets, Louisa Lovasz
Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses
Changes in the extent of mangrove and saltmarsh in NSW has been associated with urbanisation, floodplain drainage, changes to tidal dynamics and wetland hydrology, and recent changes in sea level. These pressures are projected to increase in the coming decades in alignment with projected climate change and increasing coastal development, which will likely result in changes to the extent and composition of intertidal wetlands. Monitoring the effects of these pressures on wetland extent is essential for identifying management activities that maintain or improve delivery of ecosystem services. NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) Fisheries developed estuary specific Marine Vegetation Management …
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 …