Check out our Australian Marine Parks scientific publications; a growing collection of reports, journal articles, multimedia, posters and other publications.

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Publications

• 2016 Biodiversity Surveys of the Cod Grounds and Pimpernel Rocks Commonwealth Marine Reserves
• A Study of Socio-Economic Issues Facing Traditional Indonesian Fishers Who Access the MOU Box
• A characterisation of the marine environment of the North-west Marine Region
• A discussion paper for advancing the South-east Regional Marine Plan
• A guide to the Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia – version 4.0 June 2006 (IMCRA v4.0)
• A report on the ecological surveys undertaken at Middleton and Elizabeth Reefs, February 2006
• A socio-economic analysis and description of the marine industries of Australia's South-west Marine Region
• A socio-economic overview of the coastal communities adjacent the North-west Marine Region
• A stocktake of environmental, socio-economic and governance performance assessment systems in use by Australian governments
• A summary paper: Glimpses of the South-east Marine Region
• A survey of intertidal seagrass from Van Diemen Gulf to Castlereagh Bay, Northern Territory, and from Gove to Horn Island, Queensland
• Action 6: Status of Ecosystem Mapping for the NRSMPA
• Action 8: Review of methods for Ecosystem mapping
• Age, growth and reproductive dynamics of the Talang Queenfish (Scomberoides commersonnianus) in Northern Australia
• An Interim Bioregionalisation for the continental slope and deeper waters of the South-East Marine Region of Australia
• An assessment of the offshore marine natural values of Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories.
• Analysis of South Australian Museum’s cetacean data
• Areas for Further Assessment in the East Marine Region
• As far as the eye can see: Indigenous interests in the East Marine Planning Region
• Ashmore Reef Marine Park Environmental Assessment Report 2021
• Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve and Cartier Island Marine Reserve Management Plans
• Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve and Cartier Island Marine Reserve marine and terrestrial introduced species prevention and management strategy
• Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island Reserves
• Assessment of risks that commercial fishing methods may pose to conservation values identified in the Areas for Further Assessment of the North and North-west Marine Regions
• Assessment of the 2024 marine heatwave on five reefs in the central Coral Sea Marine Park
• Assessment of the Conservation Values of the Bass Strait Sponge Beds Area
• Assessment of the Conservation Values of the Bonney Upwelling (Blue Whale Aggregation) Area
• Assessment of the conservation values of the Norfolk Seamounts area
• Australia's Marine Protected Areas: Protecting our Coasts and Oceans
• Australia's South-east Marine Region: A User's Guide to Identifying Candidate Areas for aRegional Representative System of Marine Protected Areas
• Australian IUCN Reserve Management Principles for Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas
• Baseline Biodiversity Survey of the Cod Grounds Commonwealth Marine Reserve – Survey: Reef Life Survey
• Benthic Marine Bioregionalisation of Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone
• Benthic Protection Zone of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park
• Benthic fact sheets
• Benthic habitats and biodiversity of Dampier and Montebello Marine Parks
• Benthic maps
• Bentho-pelagic coupling in Commonwealth Marine Reserves
• Beyond biodiversity: Sustainable conservation and development of the oceans using Ecosystem Based Management (EBM)
• Biodiversity Survey of Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs 2013 and 2018
• Biodiversity Survey of the Temperate East Coast Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network: Elizabeth & Middleton Reefs, Lord Howe Island & Norfolk Island
• Biodiversity survey of Ashmore Reef (Coral Sea) and comparison with surrounding reefs
• Biological survey of the Arafura Sea
• Bioregionalisation of Australian waters using brittle stars Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), a major group of marine benthic invertebrates
• Bioregionalisation of the waters around Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands using brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea)
• Changes in rock lobster, demersal fish, and sessile benthic organisms in the Tasman Fracture Marine Park
• Changes in the incidence of coral injuries during mass bleaching across Australia’s Coral Sea Marine Park
• Characterisation of the marine environment of the East Marine Region
• Characterisation of the marine environment of the North Marine Region- Outcomes of an Expert Workshop, 2-3 April 2007
• Characterisation of the marine environment of the South-west Marine Region
• Cod Grounds Commonwealth Marine Reserve Commonwealth Waters – Swath Survey and Habitat Classification
• Collation and analysis of oceanographic datasets for National Marine Bioregionalisation
• Collation and analysis of oceanographic datasets for National Marine Bioregionalisation: the Northern Large Marine Domain
• Collation and validation of museum collection databases related to the distribution of marine sponges in northern Australia
• Commonwealth Marine Reserves Indigenous Forum Outcomes Report
• Communities: Connecting with the ocean
• Comparison of juvenile coral assemblages between Australia’s Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef Marine Parks
• Connectivity of black cod Epinephelus daemelii between Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs (as measured by population genetic structure based on microsatellites)
• Conservation of Marine Habitats in the Region of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands
• Conservation values in Commonwealth waters of the Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Island remote Australian territories
• Coral Reef Health Survey 2022
• Coral Sea Coral Reef Health: In situ measurements of temperature and current flow
• Coral Sea Marine Park Coral Reef Health Survey 2021
• Coral Sea Marine Park Coral Reef Health Survey 2023 and 2024
• Coral Sea Marine Park Island Watch Summary Report Feb-March 2022
• Coral Sea Marine Park Marine Debris Clean-up Voyage 2022
• Coral Sea Marine Park environmental assessment of islands, islets and cays of the southern and central reef systems, 2022
• Coral Sea Marine Park environmental assessment of islands, islets and cays of the southern and central reef systems, 2023
• Coral Sea National Nature Reserves
• Coral Sea Turtle Survey 2022-2023
• Coral Sea sea cucumber catch sampling
• Coral Sea sea cucumber survey, 2017
• Coral reef health in the Coral Sea Marine Park
• Coral reef survey methods for assessing important community elements associated with coral reefs
• Coral survey at selected sites in Arnhem Land
• Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve & Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve Management Plan
• Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve Identification of invertebrates collected on the 2007 invertebrate survey
• Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve Marine Survey 2007
• Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve seabird monitoring
• Crossing Borders: Implications of the Memorandum of Understanding on Bajo fishing activity in northern Australian waters
• Data Layers and Metadata to Assist in the Selection of Candidate MPAs in the SEMR
• Description of Commercial, Recreational and Charter Fishing Activities in the East Marine Region
• Description of Key Species Groups in the East Marine Region
• Description paper for Areas for Further Assessment in the North Marine Region
• Description paper for Areas for Further Assessment in the North-west Marine Region
• Differential bleaching susceptibility among coral taxa and colony sizes, relative to bleaching severity across Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea Marine Parks
• East Marine Bioregional Plan Bioregional Profile – A Description of the Ecosystems, Conservation Values and Uses of the East Marine Region
• East Marine Region Strategic Regional Assessment Workshop – 28-29 July 2009 Brisbane
• Ecological importance of small pelagic fishes in the Flinders Current System
• Ecosystems of the East Marine Region
• Ecosystems: Nature's Diversity
• Effectiveness of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park in protecting the Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) from by-catch mortality in shark gillnets
• Environmental Assessment of the Coringa Islets and Herald Cays in the Coral Sea Marine Park
• Environmental assessment of islets and cays of Tregrosse and Lihou Reefs, Coral Sea Marine Park, July 2021
• Finding solutions: Derelict fishing gear and other marine debris in Northern Australia
• Former Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs Marine National Nature Reserve Management Plan 2006 – 2013
• Former Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) Management Plan 2005–2012 – Summary for park users
• Former Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) management plan 2005-2012
• Former Lord Howe Island Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) Management Plan
• Galapagos shark movement patterns and interactions with fishing vessels in the marine parks surrounding Howe Island
• Geomorphic features of the continental margin of Australia
• Geomorphology and sedimentology of the South Western Planning Area of Australia
• Goals and principles for the establishment of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas in Commonwealth waters
• Great Australian Bight Marine Park(Commonwealth and State Waters) – A Description Of Values And Uses
• Guidance on Achieving Comprehensiveness, Adequacy, and Representativeness in the Commonwealth waters component of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas
• Guidance on achieving comprehensiveness, adequacy, and representativeness in the Commonwealth waters component of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas
• Guidelines for Establishing the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas
• Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve Proposal
• Impact from the ocean/land interface
• Impact of aquaculture
• Impacts of shipping
• Impacts on the natural system
• Impacts: Identifying disturbances
• Improving the water quality of Emily Bay, Norfolk Island
• Key economic issues facing marine based industries in the South East Marine Region
• Key species: A description of key species groups in the Northern Planning Area
• Kooyang Sea Country Plan
• Living on Saltwater Country: Goulburn Island to the QLD border Sea Country management, needs and issues
• Living on Saltwater Country: Review of literature about Aboriginal rights, use, management and interests in northern Australian marine environments
• Living on Saltwater Country: Southern Gulf of Carpentaria Sea Country management, needs and issues
• Macquarie Island Marine Park Management Plan 2001 – 2008
• Management and Research Issues at Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve
• Marine Bioregional Planning in the South-west Marine Region – Areas for Further Assessment
• Marine Bioregional Planning: A new focus for Australia’s marine planning
• Marine protected areas in ecosystem-based management of fisheries
• Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve
• Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve Plan of Management 2000 – 2007
• Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve – Information for visitors
• Modelling connectivity for resilient protected area design among areas for further assessment identified by DEWHA for the development of a Commonwealth MPA Network in the South-west Marine Region
• National Marine Atlas
• National Marine Bioregionalisation of Australia
• National Marine Sediments Database and Seafloor Characteristics Project
• Natural Values of the Inshore Waters of Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories - Christmas & the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• Ningaloo Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) Management Plan (2000-June 2009)
• Ningaloo Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) – Literature Review
• Ningaloo Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) – information for visitors
• Non-fisheries Resource Use Activities in the East Marine Region
• Non-market economic values and the South-east Marine Region
• Norfolk Island Lagoonal Reef Ecosystem Health 2021
• Norfolk Island Lagoonal Reef Ecosystem Health 2022
• Norfolk Island Lagoonal Reef Ecosystem Health 2023
• North Marine Bioregional Plan Bioregional Profile – A Description of the Ecosystems, Conservation Values and Uses of the North Marine Region
• North Marine Region Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network: social and economic assessment of the impacts on commercial and charter fishing
• North-west Marine Bioregional Plan Bioregional Profile – A Description of the Ecosystems, Conservation Values and Uses of the North-west Marine Region
• Northern Marine Atlas
• Northern Marine Atlas
• Ocean management: the legal framework
• Opportunistic multibeam surveys in the North Marine Parks Network
• Our Marine Parks Grants Round 2: Diving into the Deep 2022
• Patterns of future developments in the South-west Marine Region
• Pelagic fact sheets
• Pelagic maps
• Pelagic regionalisation: National Marine Bioregionalisation Integration Project
• Petroleum and minerals industries in the North-west Marine Region
• Population genetic structure of Australian Galapagos reef sharks Carcharhinus galapagensis at Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs Marine National Nature Reserve and Lord Howe Island Marine Park
• Pressures on uses in the South-east Marine Region
• Progress in implementing the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (NRSMPA)
• Proposed offshore Key Ecological Features and Biologically Important Areas of Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories.
• Rapid Assessment of Australian MPAs using Satellite Remote Sensing
• Rapid Assessment of Australian MPAs using Satellite Remote Sensing – Part 2: Validation of Biological Response to Physical Environment
• Recycling pathways for ghost nets and other marine debris in Northern Australia
• Reef Life Survey Assessment of Coral Reef Biodiversity in the North-West Commonwealth Network, 2017
• Reef Life Survey Assessment of Coral Reef Biodiversity in the North-west marine Parks Network, 2020
• Reef Life Survey Assessment of Marine Biodiversity in Geographe Bay
• Reef Life Survey Assessment of Rocky Reef Biodiversity in the South-West Marine Region (Geographe CMR)
• Reef biodiversity surveys of Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Reserve Network: An overview
• Regulation impact statement – Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve and Conservation Zone
• Remote sensing for light attenuation mapping in the North Marine Region
• Report On Visit to the Coringa – Herald Nature Reserve 17-21 December 2001
• Report On Visit to the Coringa – Herald Nature Reserve 30 July - 10 August, 2001
• Report On Visit to the Coringa – Herald Nature Reserve and SE Magdelaine Cay 15-22 March, 2002
• Report on the Levels of the Scale Insect Pulvinaria Urbicola and its Natural Enemies on Pisonia Grandis
• Research and Monitoring in Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas: A Review
• Research and Monitoring in Australia’s Coral Sea: A Review
• Resources and Habitat Mapping Within the Timor Sea MOU74 Box
• Resources: Macquarie Island's picture
• Resources: Using the ocean
• Review of research and monitoring relevant to natural values in Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Reserves
• Risk assessment for environmental management of the marine environment
• Scoping report for the Northern Planning Area
• Sea Country: an Indigenous perspective
• Sea countries of the North-west
• Sedimentology and Geomorphology of the East Marine region of Australia – A Spatial Analysis
• Sedimentology and Geomorphology of the South West Planning Region of Australia
• Sedimentology and geomorphology of the North-west Marine Region:
• Snapshot of the Northern Planning Area
• Snapshot of the South-east
• Socio-economic Impact Assessment Toolkit; A guide to assessing the socio-economic impacts of Marine Protected Areas in Australia
• Socio-economic impact assessment of the proposed Cod Grounds Marine Protected Area
• Socio-economic overview of the Northern Planning Area
• South-east Regional Marine Plan – Implementing Australia's oceans policy in the South-east Marine Region
• South-west Marine Bioregional Plan Bioregional Profile – A Description of the Ecosystems, Conservation Values and Uses of the South-west Marine Region
• Status and trends for shallow reef habitats and assemblages at Elizabeth and Middleton reefs, Lord Howe Marine Park
• Stocks of Trochus and Beche-de-mer at Cartier Reef: 2001 surveys
• Strategic Plan of Action for the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas
• Survey 2000: Beche-de-mer and trochus populations at Ashmore Reef
• Survey and Stock Size Estimates of the Shallow Reef (0-15 m Deep) and Shoal Area (15-50 m Deep) Marine Resources and Habitat Mapping Within the Timor Sea MOU74 Box – Volume 1: Stock Estimates and Stock Status
• Survey and Stock Size Estimates of the Shallow Reef (0-15m Deep) and Shoal Area (15-50m Deep) Marine Resources and Habitat Mapping Within the Timor Sea MOU74 Box
• Targeted review of biological and ecological information from fisheries research in the South-east Marine Region
• Technical review of impacts matrices
• Tempestichthys bettyae, a new genus and species of ocean sleeper from the central Coral Sea
• The Corals Collected During September/October 1997 at Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea
• The Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for Australia version 3.3
• The Jewel in the Coral Sea - The cultural and ecological significance of Ashmore and Boot Reefs
• The Potential Sensitivity of Marine Mammals to Mining and Exploration in the Great Australian Bight Marine Park Marine Mammal Protection Zone
• The South-west Marine Region: Ecosystems and Key Species Groups
• The benefits of marine protected areas – discussion paper
• The benefits of marine protected areas – technical paper
• The development, status and socio-economic linkages of key industries within and adjacent to the North-west Marine Region
• The economic contribution of Australia's marine industries 1995-96 to 2002-03
• The way ahead for Australia's eastern oceans – Marine Bioregional Planning in Commonwealth Waters
• The way ahead for Australia's northern oceans – Marine Bioregional Planning in Commonwealth Waters
• Torres Strait Islanders and fisheries
• Torres Strait seabed and water-column data collation, bio-physical modeling and characterization
• Tradition and legislation
• Trophic systems of the North-west Marine Region
• Understanding and Applying the Principles of Comprehensiveness, Adequacy and Representativeness for the NRSMPA
• Understanding areas of high productivity within the South-west Marine Region
• Understanding the Cultural, Natural Heritage Values & Management Challenges of the Ashmore Region
• Validation of the national demersal fish datasets for the regionalisation of the Australian continental slope and outer shelf (>40 m depth)
• Vegetation Assessment and Mapping of South Islet (Willis Islets), Coral Sea Marine Park
• Western rock lobster in ecosystem processes of south-western Australia