Monitoring dugongs within the Reef 2050 Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Program: final report of the dugong team in the megafauna expert group

The Great Barrier Reef supports one of the world’s largest populations of the dugong (Dugong dugon). Dugongs are impacted by indirect pressures such as changes in the status of the seagrass communities on which they depend for food, affecting their growth, fecundity, movements, and mortality; and by direct pressures that cause mortality.