Understanding living systems and sustainable futures
Coastal and marine ecosystems are important ecologically, culturally, and socio-economically. The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology will maintain and improve ecosystems through better coastal management by identifying critical thresholds to prevent decline in biodiversity and maintain trophic structure.
How local environmental change such as landuse intensification interacts with global processes will be identified. Forecasted impacts of global change on these systems include increased oceanic temperature, turbidity and nutrient loading, and ocean acidification (from CO2 loading).
In the Media Spotlight
Something new
May 2009: Australia is set to start storing carbon dioxide in depleted subterranean seafloor gas fields.
Recent news
March 2009: New science facility at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic will add to capability in meeting growing regional interest in tertiary study in Applied Sciences.
Topical
November 2008: Bush adminstration has announced extensive marine conservation areas in the Pacific.
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