Green sea turtle and dugong food resource assessment : Shoalwater Bay seagrass surveys : 2002-2006

From February 2002 until January 2006 five seagrass meadows within Shoalwater Bay, a largely undisturbed natural embayment in central Queensland, were monitored for seagrass community structure and abundance. Shoalwater Bay is unique in that it is largely an intact natural system remote from human settlement and provides the most significant feeding grounds for dugong and green sea turtles in the southern Great Barrier Reef.