NESP MaC Project 3.8 – Carbon abatement and biodiversity enhancements through controlling feral ungulate disturbance in wetlands, 2023-2025 (UQ)
This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - Project 3.8 – Carbon abatement and biodiversity enhancements through controlling feral ungulate disturbance in wetlands. For specific data outputs from this project, please see child records associated with this metadata.
Feral ungulates (e.g., cattle, pigs, buffalo) damage wetlands, reducing biodiversity, water quality and cultural heritage values, but funding for management has been inadequate. Feral ungulates may contribute to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) through their disturbance of soils and vegetation, but the levels of carbon abatement achieved with their control is not well characterised across Australia. This project will work with Traditional Owners, academics and governments to characterise the benefits of feral ungulate control in wetlands, providing science that will underpin development of an Emission Reduction Fund method, where payments for carbon credits and biodiversity enhancements would fund management of feral ungulates on Country.
Planned Outputs
• Environmental habitat surveys [tabular dataset]
• Greenhouse gas and soil carbon data [tabular data]
• ungulate damage assessments [tabular data]
• Remote sensing vegetation condition [scripts]
• Wetland topology assessments [spatial]
• Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-03-30T00:00:00
- Purpose
- Project Aims and Objectives: 1. Measure and monitor GHG fluxes (CO2, CH4), soil and vegetation carbon stocks and biodiversity metrics (where needed) at sites monitored by Traditional Owners. Measurements will augment those of existing programs. 2. Identify indicators that may best be used to predict GHG abatement and biodiversity change. Review the monitoring programs and indicators used by Traditional Owners to monitor Country. 3. Collate data on the costs of feral ungulate control measures (e.g. fencing, shooting, trapping etc…) to support cost/benefit analyses. 4. Synthesis 1 is a synthesis report on the scientific and traditional knowledge evidence for feral animal removal as a carbon abatement and biodiversity enhancement strategy. 5. Synthesis 2 is a synthesis report on potential income from carbon abatement and enhancement of biodiversity with feral ungulate control and a cost-benefit analysis of feral control activities.
- Credit
- Catherine Lovelock (UQ), Valerie Hagger (UQ)
- Credit
- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Credit
- Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), Australian Government
- Credit
- In addition to NESP (DCCEEW) funding, this project is matched by an equivalent amount of in-kind support and co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Principal investigator
Catherine LovelockThe University of Queensland
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Project extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2023-01-01 2025-12-20
Extent
Extent
- Description
- Marine and coastal region of Australia
- Keywords (dataSource)
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- National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine and Coastal Hub
- Keywords (Theme)
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- marine
- AODN Geographic Extents Vocabulary
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- Coastal Waters (Australia)
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data collections described in this record are funded by the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) through the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
- NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website
- OnLine resource
- NESP MaC - Round 3 page
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/a2fb3241-f7f6-42bb-9e48-dc1c80491a07
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
eAtlas Data ManagerAustralian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
- Parent metadata
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Field session
- Name
- NESP MaC hub Project {Project code}
- Metadata linkage
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https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/a2fb3241-f7f6-42bb-9e48-dc1c80491a07
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-05-10T16:08:28
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-03-24T23:24:15
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018