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The monitoring program will use a Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) design for community structure and function
attributes as recommended by Baggett et al. (2014)9. Multiple control sites will be used to assess the relative influence
of spatial variation among them compared to differences between control and impact sites, i.e. beyond BACI designs11.

The socio-economic target is to create opportunities for the local community, recreational users and businesses in
the Noosa Shire through shellfish ecosystem restoration.

The focus of this target will be to develop new economic and community volunteering benefits throughout the Project.
By engaging project partners, stakeholders and the local community and businesses in project activities, and training
(including citizen science and hands-on restoration), the project will not only provide direct economic benefits to local
contractors engaged in restoration activities, but also foster ownership of the project, and help build capacity in others
to undertake similar restoration projects in the future.

The project efficiency target is to deliver the project on time and within budget and additional funding is leveraged to
support project deliverables. The partnership agreement between TNC and NSC will be used as a reference for this
target.

The MER workflow associated with shellfish ecosystem restoration uses a nested approach where restoration
objectives are nested within high level restoration goals which deliver the three restoration targets (described above)
(Figure 7).




Figure 6. Summary of restoration targets, goals and objectives. Further detail is provided in the Project Monitoring Evaluation
and Reporting Plan.



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     Underwood, A.J. (1992) Beyond BACI - the detection of environmental impacts on populations in the real, but variable, world. Journal of
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 161(2):145-178.




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