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Improve capacity to predict impacts of dredging on seagrasses

This project aims to enhance predictive capacity for dredging impacts on seagrasses through genetic diversity studies, light and sediment thresholds, and microbial interactions. Funding from WAMSI supports research collaborations with ECU, UWA, and others.

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Improve capacity to predict impacts of dredging on seagrasses

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  1. Improve capacity to predict impacts of dredging on seagrasses • Funding source: WAMSI – Dredging research • Collaborators: ECU, UWA, CSIRO • Research direction • Genetic diversity and connectivity of seagrass populations • Natural recovery dynamics • Responses and thresholds for light reduction and sediment burial

  2. Connectivity in coastal systems Connectivity of seagrasses • Funding source: WAMSI - Kimberley • Collaborators: ECU, UWA, U Adelaide • Research direction • genetic diversity and connectivity of seagrasspopulations in the Kimberley region Microbial interactions with benthic primary producers • Funding source: WAMSI - Kimberley • Collaborators: ECU, UWA • Research direction • Bacterial abundance, biomass, carbon production and functional profiles in the benthos

  3. Marine and Coastal Carbon Biogeochemistry Cluster • Research direction • Carbon captured and stored for millennia by marine environments (Blue carbon) • a potential mechanism for mitigation of GHG gases • Carbon sequestration, stoichiometry and stores potential of Australian vegetated coastal ecosystems: • Seagrasses, Mangroves & Saltmarshes

  4. Other projects Seagrass barcoding • Funding source: ECU and U Adelaide • Collaborators: ECU &U Adelaide • Research direction • Global initiative to barcode seagrasses • Improve knowledge and resolution of seagrass taxonomy Marine microorganisms • Funding source: ECU • Collaborators: ECU, UWA, WAM, Uni Oklahoma • Research direction • The coral 'holobiont’: shifts in communities across large biogeographicalareas of the coastline • Acquisition of microbial partners in early life history

  5. Indigenous involvement • Funding source: • WAMSI • Collaborators: • ECU (Colleen Haywood) & NW Indigenous communities • Research direction • Engagement and consultation with Indigenous knowledge-holders and relevant Prescribed Bodies Corporate • Recruitment of local Aboriginal researchers seen as part of the reciprocation with local communities • Focus on participatory methods for the collection of qualitative data • Use of Indigenous ways of understanding and using knowledge

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