NESP MB Project A2 – Quantification of national ship strike risk

本记录概述了NESP海洋生物多样性中心项目A2--“国家船舶撞击风险的量化”的范围和研究成果。该项目已被NESP海洋生物多样性中心项目C5--“运输至澳大利亚大型海洋动物群的风险量化”所取代(见本记录的分配和在线资源部分的链接)。<br/> <br/> <br/> 鉴于澳大利亚沿海开发，以及相关的航运增加，船只与海洋动物(特别是海洋哺乳动物和海龟)相撞的问题越来越令人担忧。需要工具和研究来在空间上量化船舶撞击的风险，以帮助制定管理战略。这项工作将使用最近的航运密度/速度数据，同时结合物种分布/栖息地模型，制作相对风险地图，可用于确定危险海洋动物和航运同时出现的地区和时间。根据这些地图，可以实施策略(如减速地带/时间)，将船只撞击对海洋动物的影响降至最低。<br/> <br/> 计划产量<br/> ·初步船舶撞击风险范围报告，概述目前已知的濒危物种、现有数据、所需的运输规模/类型数据，并就要调查的物种提出建议，从最容易到最困难；<br/> ·确定数据缺陷；<br/> ·2012年至今全澳大利亚精细航运密度和平均速度图；<br/> ·一套所调查各种物种的分布信息/地图；<br/> ·选定物种的风险地图。对于单个物种，在项目生命周期内交付的结果。风险地图的范围将从有数据时的完整精细地图，到物种的粗略“关注区域”，其中分布数据被限制在大致范围内。

This record provides an overview of the scope and research output of NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project A2 - "Quantification of national ship strike risk". This project has been superseded by NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project C5 - "Quantification of risk from shipping to large marine fauna across Australia" (see link in Distribution and On-Line Resources section of this record).<br /> <br /> --------------------<br /> <br /> Given Australian coastal development, and associated increases in shipping, ship collisions with marine fauna (specifically marine mammals and turtles) is of increasing concern. Tools and research are needed to spatially quantify the risk of ship strike to help develop management strategies. This work will use shipping density/speed data from the recent past, in parallel with species distribution/habitat models, to produce relative risk maps that can be used to identify areas and times where there is co-occurrence of at-risk marine fauna and shipping. From these maps, strategies (such as speed reduction zones/times) could be implemented to minimise the impact of vessel strike on marine fauna. <br /> <br /> Planned Outputs<br /> • Initial scoping report of ship strike risk, summarising what is currently known on at-risk species, the data available, shipping size/type data needed and providing recommendations on what species to investigate ranked from easiest to most difficult;<br /> • Identification of data deficiencies;<br /> • Full Australia-wide fine-scale shipping density and average speed maps for 2012 – present;<br /> • A suite of distribution information/maps for the various species investigated;<br /> • Risk map for selected species. With individual species, results delivered during the life of the project. The risk maps will range from full fine-scale maps when data is present, to coarse-scale ‘regions of concern’ for species where distribution data is limited to approximate extent.