OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 20 (end) doc

... itself • In hinterland and coastal land use that affects the GBR INNER REEFS Land clearing in the river catchments draining into the GBR has been rapid and is still continuing, and the landscape ... biologically and aesthetically. COMPARISON WITH THE LAND In thinking of the future of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), we can learn from our treatment of the...

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... thousands 1 1 © 200 1 by CRC Press 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 ... Washington, D.C. CRC Press © 200 1 by CRC Press LLC Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Oceanographic processes of coral reefs : phy...

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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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... 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 © 200 1 by...

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... 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 ... (10 6 Ml). © 200 1 by CRC Press LLC Runoff of Terrestrial Sediment and Nutrients into the Great Barrier Reef 39 TABLE 1 Summary Statistics for Major Catchment Basin...

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... of the fauna and flora of mangrove swamps and forests in the Indo-Pacific region. Advances Marine Biology 6, 73–270. Madsen, T.V. & Sand-Jensen, K. 1994 The interactive effects of light and ... 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 ti...

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... 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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... 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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... different plume tra- jectories depending on the time-varying nature of both the wind and the rainfall. The time-step of the model was set to simulate the river dynamics at 30-s inter- vals. Such high ... 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 th...

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... 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 and nature of the seaward influence of human ... else- where in the western Indo-Pacific. The early closure during any ice age of the shal- low Torres Straits seaway to the north of the GBR ensured that...

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