Environment and Conservation Fund - Fish Community Monitoring: Environmental Factors and Marine Protected Area Effectiveness

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Grant Data
Project Title
Environment and Conservation Fund - Fish Community Monitoring: Environmental Factors and Marine Protected Area Effectiveness
Principal Investigator
Professor Schunter, Celia Marei   (Principal Investigator (PI))
Co-Investigator(s)
Professor Baker David Michael   (Co-Investigator)
Mr Shea Stanley   (Co-Investigator)
Duration
30
Start Date
2024-01-01
Amount
1306000
Conference Title
Environment and Conservation Fund - Fish Community Monitoring: Environmental Factors and Marine Protected Area Effectiveness
Keywords
Fish community monitoring; Environmental Factors; Marine Protected Area
Discipline
Marine Biology
HKU Project Code
ECF Project 112/2022
Grant Type
Environment and Conservation Fund 2022
Funding Year
2022
Status
On-going
Objectives
We will combine traditional surveying methods with environmental DNA technique to survey reef fish communities and develop a new optimal method for a fast, more economical, and efficient method to monitor reef fish biodiversity.The project aims to determine the effectiveness of Hong Kong’s eastern marine protected areas, but applying this new method, by studying reef fish communities inside and at several distances outside the marine protected areas.