NERP TE Project 9.3: Management Priorities for Great Barrier Reef Islands, 2011-2014

150 islands within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area from south of Mackay to Bundaberg are the focus of this project to develop a cost-effective approach for prioritizing conservation actions. The project, associated with the Australian Ocean Data Network, aimed to create a GIS-based decision-support tool for managers. It covers the period from 2011 to 2014.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing pest control actions based on the described management framework.
• Planning fire regime adjustments across islands using the GIS decision-support tool.
• Designing biosecurity measures for island conservation based on the project's broad-based approach.
• Identifying monitoring priorities within and between islands using the described methodology.

Strengths

• Focuses on 150 specific islands within a defined geographic region.
• Project developed a GIS-capable decision-support tool, suggesting structured spatial data.
• Describes a multi-faceted management approach including pest control, fire regimes, and biosecurity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Project to develop a decision-support approach for island management.

Time Range

2011-2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 16:38:53.045996; freshness should be verified

Geography

150 islands in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, from south of Mackay to Bundaberg, Australia.