National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems (NERP TE) Hub - Funding Program 2011 - 2014 (Dept. Environment)
- Between 01/07/2011 - 00:00 and 31/12/2014 - 00:00
This metadata is a brief overview of the National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems (NERP TE) Hub and a metadata parent record for all datasets and projects developed as part of this research program.
The National Environmental Research Program (NERP) ran from July 2011 through to Dec 2014 and provided around $20 million each year for environmental research to improve our capacity to understand, manage and conserve Australia's unique biodiversity and ecosystems through the generation of world-class research, and its delivery to Australian environmental decision-makers and other stakeholders.
The Tropical Ecosystems Hub was the largest of the five NERP Hubs with 240 scientists from five major research institutions undertaking 38 projects across North and Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait.
Research addressed critical issues for management, conservation and sustainable use of the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef and its catchments, tropical rainforests including the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, and land and sea assets on which the resilient communities in the Torres Strait depend.
The TE Hub also undertook a dedicated knowledge brokering and communication and engagement program to ensure information was delivered to the right people in the right way through research-user engagement and our suite of communication products and reporting tools.
The NERP built on lessons learned from the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF) which concluded in 2010. The successor to the NERP is the National Environmental Science Program (NESP).
Research products from the NERP TE Hub are available from the nerptropical.edu.au website and the eAtlas.
- National Environmental Research Program
Department of the Environment
nerp@environment.gov.au
- NERP TE Project Maps - Areas of research activity, tracks and sites (NERP TE 13.1, AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 9.4 Conservation planning for a changing coastal zone (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 9.3 Prioritising management actions for Great Barrier Reef islands (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 9.2 Design and implementation of Management Strategy Evaluation for the Great Barrier Reef inshore (MSEGBR) (CSIRO)
- NERP TE Project 9.1 Dynamic vulnerability maps and decision support tools for the Great Barrier Reef (AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 8.3 Significance of no-take marine protected areas to regional recruitment and population persistence on the GBR (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 8.2 Do no-take marine reserves contribute to biodiversity and fishery sustainability? Assessing the effects of management zoning on inshore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 8.1 Monitoring the ecological effects of the Great Barrier Reef Zoning Plan on mid- and outer-shelf reefs (AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 7.3 Climate change and the impacts of extreme climatic events on Australia’s Wet Tropics biodiversity (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 7.2 Invasive species risks and responses in the Wet Tropics (CSIRO)
- NERP TE Project 7.1 Fire and rainforests (CSIRO)
- NERP TE Project 6.3 Critical seabird foraging locations and trophic relationships for the Great Barrier Reef (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 6.2 Drivers of juvenile shark biodiversity and abundance in inshore ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 6.1 Maximising the benefits of mobile predators to GBR ecosystems: the importance of movement, habitat and environment (AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 5.3 Vulnerability of seagrass habitats in the GBR to flood plume impacts: light, nutrients and salinity (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 5.2 Experimental and field investigations of combined water quality and climate effects on corals and other reef organisms (AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 5.1 Understanding diversity of the GBR: spatial and temporal dynamics and environmental drivers (AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 4.4 Hazard assessment for water quality threats to Torres Strait marine waters, ecosystems and public health (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 4.3 Ecological risk assessment of pesticides, nutrients and sediments on water quality and ecosystem health – Phase 1 (CSIRO, JCU)
- NERP TE Project 4.2 The chronic effects of pesticides and their persistence in tropical waters (AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 4.1 Tracking coastal turbidity over time and demonstrating the effects of river discharge events on regional turbidity in the GBR (AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 3.4 Monitoring of key vertebrate species (CSIRO)
- NERP TE Project 3.3 Targeted surveys for missing and critically endangered rainforest frogs in ecotonal areas, and assessment of whether populations are recovering from disease (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 3.2 What is a risk? Identifying rainforest refugia and hotspots of plant genetic diversity in the Wet Tropics and Cape York Peninsula (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 3.1 Rainforest Biodiversity: (a) Monitoring; (b) Climate change vulnerability and adaptation; (c) Determinants of biodiversity – synthesis and integration; and (d) Status, trends and future predictions (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 2.3 Monitoring the health of Torres Strait coral reefs (AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 2.2 Mangrove and freshwater habitat status of Torres Strait islands (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 2.1 Marine turtles and dugongs of Torres Strait (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 13.1 eAtlas (AIMS)
- NERP TE Project 12.4 Governance, planning and the effective application of emerging ecosystem service markets to secure climate change adaptation and landscape resilience in Far North Queensland (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 12.3 Relative social and economic values of residents and tourists in the WTWHA (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 12.2 Harnessing natural regeneration for cost-effective rainforest restoration (GU, UQ)
- NERP TE Project 12.1 Indigenous co-management and biodiversity protection (CSIRO)
- NERP TE Project 11.2 Improved approaches for detection of disease and prevention of spread in Torres Strait (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 11.1 Building resilience communities for Torres Strait futures (CSIRO)
- NERP TE Project 10.2 Socio-economic systems and reef resilience (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 10.1 Social and economic long term monitoring programme (SELTMP) – (CSIRO, JCU)
- NERP TE Project 1.3 Characterising the cumulative impacts of global, regional and local stressors on the present and past biodiversity of the GBR (UQ)
- NERP TE Project 1.2 Marine wildlife management in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (JCU)
- NERP TE Project 1.1 Monitoring status and trends of coral reefs of the GBR (AIMS)
- Data for U-Th dated coral from reef matrix cores and death assemblage from Mazie Bay, North Keppel Island, Southern Great Barrier Reef (NERP TE 1.3, UQ)
- Research Funding
- marine