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Status of other outbreaks
Management Concern: Moderate
Adequacy of Information: Moderate
Summary extracts from Outlook Report 2009
- Outbreaks of other species, such as algal blooms, may indicate the ecosystem is under increasing pressure.
What do we know?
Relevant pages from Outlook Online include:
- Blooms of the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula
- A bloom of Lyngbya majuscula in Shoalwater Bay, Queensland, Australia: An important feeding ground for the green turtle
- Blooms of 'Golden Noodle' algae on the Great Barrier Reef
- Nitrogen fixation by Trichodesmium in central and northern Great Barrier Reef
- Growth rates of outbreak populations of Drupella at Ningaloo Reef
Existing policies and management actions
- Australian Government policy on climate change
- Queensland Government climate change policies and strategies
- Climate Change Action Plan 2007-2012
- Queensland Biosecurity Strategy 2009-2014
- Water Quality Guidelines for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (2009)
- Regional Water Quality Improvement Plans
- Reef Rescue Marine Monitoring Program
- Improving water quality
- Coastal ecosystem protection
Future management requirements
- Future management requirements in this area are being guided by ongoing assessment of emerging research outcomes and issues identified by the Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009.
Defined research questions
- There are currently no defined research questions for this topic. Research questions will be developed, giving priority to interactions/issues that are of most concern to management.
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