Success Bank, WA

The project was primarily attempting to test a method of seagrass transplantation. The method involved planting whole plant plus surrounding sediment ("plug") on sediment stabilised by artificial seagrass mats. The seagrass itself did not prevent any significant sediment movement.

Project details

Seagrass

Method: Other - whole plus surrounding sediment ("plug") on sediment stabilised by artificial seagrass mats.

Seagrass species: Posidonia australis

Planting density: 1 plant/2.25m2

Hybrid structure: Other - artificial seagrass mats

General information

Approach

Seagrass

Geographic context

Open coast

Organisation responsible

Cockburn Cement Limited, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Primary objective

Test restoration methods

Coastal hazard

Erosion

Asset vulnerable

Natural

Links and further information

Campbell, M. L. & Paling, E. I. Evaluating vegetative transplant success in Posidonia australis: a field trial with habitat enhancement. Mar Pollut Bull 46, 828–834 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0025-326X(03)00093-6