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  • Managing threats and restoring wetlands within catchments of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

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    Author(s)
    Adame, Maria Fernanda
    Arthington, Angela H
    Waltham, Nathan
    Hasan, Syezlin
    Selles, Amelia
    Ronan, Mike
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    Hasan, Syezlin B.
    Adame Vivanco, Fernanda
    Arthington, Angela H.
    Year published
    2019
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    The catchments of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia include more than one million ha of wetlands, which help to sustain the health and resilience of the reef. This article reviews the status, values, and threats of wetlands in the GBR catchments, as well as the management, protection, and challenges and opportunities for their restoration and rehabilitation. At present, wetlands in the GBR catchments have low rates of area loss and are generally well protected; however, they face major management challenges owing to the intensive land use of the catchments, especially for grazing, agriculture, horticulture, and mining. ...
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    The catchments of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in Australia include more than one million ha of wetlands, which help to sustain the health and resilience of the reef. This article reviews the status, values, and threats of wetlands in the GBR catchments, as well as the management, protection, and challenges and opportunities for their restoration and rehabilitation. At present, wetlands in the GBR catchments have low rates of area loss and are generally well protected; however, they face major management challenges owing to the intensive land use of the catchments, especially for grazing, agriculture, horticulture, and mining. Major threats to these wetlands include water pollution, invasive species, changes in hydrology, and increasing temperature and salinity resulting from climate change. In recent years wetlands have been considered primarily for their role in improving water quality to ameliorate contaminated terrestrial run‐off to the GBR, with little attention given to their intrinsic value and other ecosystem services. Financial opportunities for wetland restoration in addition to government‐funded schemes include water pollution offsets, payment for ecosystem services, and nitrogen markets. Wetlands need to be protected, managed, and restored for the ecosystem services that they provide to the GBR, but also for their intrinsic value as significant features of coastal landscapes.
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    Journal Title
    AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS
    Volume
    29
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3096
    Copyright Statement
    © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Managing threats and restoring wetlands within catchments of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume29, Issue5, May 2019, Pages 829-839, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3096. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
    Subject
    Environmental sciences
    Biological sciences
    Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/386116
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