Baseline Biodiversity Survey of the Cod Grounds Commonwealth Marine Reserve

In May 2009, a team of RLS divers undertook special baseline reef surveys of the Cod Grounds Commonwealth Marine Reserve, off Laurieton on the NSW central coast. The Commonwealth Government commissioned a report of these surveys, which is available at the following link:
www.environment.gov.au/coasts/mpa/publications/cod-grounds-biodiversity.html

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Exploited reefs protected from fishing transform over decades into conservation features otherwise absent from seascapes

The second paper incorporating RLS data in a continental analysis of Marine Protected Areas recently featured in Ecological Applications.

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Ecological effects of marine protected areas on rocky reef communities – a continental-scale analysis

The first peer-reviewed scientific publication arising from data collected by RLS volunteers during the first year of the program has been published in Marine Ecology Progress Series. Click on this story to read the abstract and view the citation details. Please fee free to contact us about obtaining a copy of the full article. Read more