OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 3 docx

... categories, including a 64% reduction in palm- and pandanus-dominated wetlands and a 55% reduction in freshwater reed swamps. Freshwater wetlands to the north and west of the confluence of the North and ... justified and require further attention. Given that agri- cultural industries in these areas are operating in the context of an ever-increasing © 2001 by CR...

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... LLC Foreword I have maintained an on-going and deep interest in the Great Barrier Reef ever since I was involved in the establishment of the Australian Institute of Marine Science more than 25 ... Washington, D.C. CRC Press © 2001 by CRC Press LLC Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Oceanographic processes of coral reefs : physical and bio...

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... frame of the animation. The date associated with the 3- day animation is also indicated at the top of the key in the lower left of the screen. As shown in Animation 3, the beginning of the warm ... bleaching, while reefs in the wake of others may benefit from the mixing that occurred around the leading reef. Indeed, the reefs around the Capricorn...

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... for maintaining existing seagrass meadows or inshore coral reefs in the GBR. Quantifying the sediment-induced degradation of seagrass and inshore coral reefs is also the focus of Fortes (Chapter ... other reef systems, seems invalid. Further, non -reef (“inter -reef ) communities are shown to be important “load-bearing” ele- ments in terms of the integrity and he...

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... sediment and nutrient runoff have increased severalfold since the beginning of European cropping and pastoral activities in the catchments adjoining the GBR. CATCHMENTS ADJOINING THE GBR Continental ... concentrations and fluxes in North Queensland coastal rivers and streams. pp. 108–161 in Proceedings of the Workshop on Land-Use Patterns and Nutrient Loadings...

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... silt, 38 % fine sand, and 38 % coarse sand) experienced high mortality. This finding suggests a reduction in coral 100 Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs © 2001 by CRC Press LLC composition in reefs ... Ecosystems of the World 24, Intertidal and Littoral Ecosystems. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 572 pp. Brown, B.E. & Holley, M.C. 1981 The influence of tin smelting...

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... on the Great Barrier Reef: a review of patterns and causes. pp. 37 –46 in Proceedings of the Great Barrier Reef: Science, Use and Management, a National Conference. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park ... decline in inshore “reefs,” which have an average final coral cover of 13% (range 31 to 0%) compared to 41% (62 to 23% ) on midshelf reefs, and 60% (77 to...

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... LLC Biodiversity on the Great Barrier Reef 1 43 FIGURE 10 Spatial plot of soft coral cover, hard coral cover, and the proportion of soft corals of the total coral cover (soft coral plus hard coral cover). FIGURE ... were 43 and 38 % on crests of outer-shelf of the northern and the southern reefs, respectively. 134 Oceanographic Processes of...

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... spatial mapping of salinities was needed to determine the origins of lower salinity events ( 34 ppt) within the reef matrix of the GBR. Further, understanding the possible fates of river plumes ... rivers intruding into the GBR from Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. The mainland catchments have been divided into 35 drainage basins. The two largest basins in this r...

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... abundance and dispersal by seabirds of Pisonia grandis. Atoll Research Bulletin 35 0, 1– 23. Wasson, R.J. 1997 Run-off from the land to the rivers and the sea. pp. 23 41 in The Great Barrier Reef Science, ... appreciation of the GBRWHA as a profoundly inter- connected system in which the non -reef communities are important “load bearing” elements in terms of...

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