Resilience of Moreton Bay to climate change: Links between nutrient inputs and plankton dynamics

一个健康的摩顿湾，以其利润丰厚的渔业，标志性的海龟，儒艮和海鸟，帮助支持昆士兰州东南部每年90亿美元的旅游业。由于沿海人口的迅速增长和气候变化的影响，摩顿湾正受到越来越大的威胁。本文研究了营养物与浮游生物的关系，并建立了一个简单的模型来评估未来对海湾健康的影响。该项目将使澳大利亚科学家处于沿海海洋环境适应气候影响的研究前沿，并确保莫顿湾现在和未来保持健康

A healthy Moreton Bay, with its lucrative fishing, iconic turtles, dugongs and seabirds, helps support the $9 billion per annum tourist industry in SE Queensland. Moreton Bay is under increasing threat from nutrients produced by a mushrooming coastal population and from climate change impacts. Here we investigate nutrient-plankton relationships and develop a simple model to evaluate future impacts on bay health. This project will put Australian scientists at the forefront of research focused on the adaptation of coastal marine environments to climate impacts, and ensure that Moreton Bay remains healthy now and into the future