OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 7 ppsx
... 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 and tin dredging on the inter- tidal reef ... 22, 46 73 . Macnae, W. 1968 A general account of the fauna and flora of mangrove swamps and forests in the Indo-Pacific region. Advances Marine Biology 6, 73 –...
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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 ... occurrence of the crown -of- thorns starfish, and of its adverse impact on hard corals of the GBR, grew dramatically in the late 1960s and early 1 970 s. The...
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... 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 7, ... 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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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 ... Quantifying the inputs of pesticides and other contaminants to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park—a case study in the Herbert River catchment of N...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 4 pot
... cropping and pastoral activities in the catchments adjoining the GBR. CATCHMENTS ADJOINING THE GBR Continental drainage basins with an aggregate area of 425,000 km 2 drain into the Great Barrier ... nutrient movements from rural lands of North Queensland. pp. 67 76 in Proceedings of the Workshop on Land-Use Patterns and Nutrient Loadings of the Great Barrie...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 8 doc
... implications in terms of attribut- ing causality, since the immediate cause of the coral death may be natural, but the fail- ure to recover and consequent long-term decline in reef condition may in fact ... concepts and interactions and their consequences, and to effectively portray them to a non-expert audience; 2. The increased rigour in understanding the c...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 9 potx
... Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is part of the Indo-Pacific biogeographic region, and contains a subset of the Indo-Pacific taxa found in the most species-rich ... arrow). FIGURE 1 Map of the GBR indicating the locations of the sampled reefs. Colour codes define the position of the sampling points on the contin...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 10 pdf
... determine the origins of lower salinity events (Ͻ34 ppt) within the reef matrix of the GBR. Further, understanding the possible fates of river plumes is a key question for the management of the ... 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...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 11 potx
... of zonation of assemblages of the Lutjanidae, Lethrinidae and Serranidae (Epinephelinae) within and among mid-shelf and outer-shelf reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef. Marine and Freshwater ... system in which the non -reef communities are important “load bearing” elements in terms of the integrity and health of the larger system. The extent a...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 12 pot
... to line-fish in the offshore sections of these habitats rather than in the more accessible inshore edge of the reef shoal and inter -reef. The rationale for these increasing costs was the increased ... inter -reef but the cost of fishing increased farther offshore into the inter -reef habitat. The line fishery fleet was restricted to the reef- shoal and in...
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