Economic Values of Coral Reefs, Mangroves, and Seagrasses A Global Compilation 2008

... goods and services, the total economic value of intact mangroves was 3.6 times as high as that of shrimp farming Economic Values of Coral Reefs, Mangroves, and Seagrasses: A Global Compilation 2008 ... km² Economic Values of Coral Reefs, Mangroves, and Seagrasses: A Global Compilation 2008 Section 1: Global, Regional, and Site-Specific Values annually and had a present value (PV) of over $2.2 ... Values were calculated over a 25-year period and at a 10% discount rate (Cesar et al., 2000) Economic Values of Coral Reefs, Mangroves, and Seagrasses: A Global Compilation 2008 15 All values in...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 1 docx

... York Washington, D.C © 20 01 by CRC Press LLC Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Oceanographic processes of coral reefs : physical and biological links in the Great Barrier Reef / ... on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), that awe-inspiring structure of biological origin and maintenance which graces and makes distinctive the northeast coast of Australia and represents one of the ... aspects of the functioning of the ecosystem in relation to the Great Barrier Reef and demonstrates the impact of human activities on the Great Barrier Reef While progress is continually being made...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 2 pptx

... 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 ... surveys in the far northern GBR The model focusses on the effect of trawling on the penaeid prawn community and © 20 01 by CRC Press LLC 12 Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs inter -reef habitat The ... below the thermocline in the adjacent Coral Sea © 20 01 by CRC Press LLC Physics–Biology Links in the Great Barrier Reef 13 Resulting pulses of cold, nutrient-rich water are carried into the nutrient-depleted...

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

... Quantifying the inputs of pesticides and other contaminants to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park—a case study in the Herbert River catchment of North-East Queensland Marine Pollution Bulletin, in ... recently, the role of the grazing industry has received attention as a sediment source since grazing is the dominant land use upstream of the coastal floodplains of many of Queensland’s rivers Further, ... 10.1 3. 9 6.8 6.9 13. 3 5.8 15.9 4.4 11.1 3. 7 7.0 3. 3 7.0 2.7 1.1 4.2 10.9 3. 5 1.0 2.0 2.8 3. 1 7.5 4 .3 11.1 6.5 17.9 4.7 10 .3 2.7 3. 3 0.2 0.57 6.7 13, 597 3, 990 3. 7 1.1 a Comprises state forests and...

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 42 5,000 km drain into the Great Barrier Reef ... impact on the Great Barrier Reef pp 18–26 in Proceedings of the Workshop on Land-Use Patterns and Nutrient Loadings of the Great Barrier Reef Region James Cook University, Townsville Capelin, M.A ... assuming that the soils eroding into the GBRWHA have a mean sediment N and P content of 0.13 and 0. 04% , respectively, and that sediment-associated N and P constitute 40 and 80% of the total N and...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 7 ppsx

... M.C 1981 The influence of tin smelting and tin dredging on the intertidal reef flats of Phuket, Thailand pp 214 in Proceedings Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium, Manila, Vol 1, 5 27 pp Bulthuis, ... 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 – 270 Madsen, T.V & Sand-Jensen, K 1994 The interactive ... abundance and various inputs including sedimentation These are fuzzy logic procedures and watershed-based modeling The first is linked to a non-linear economic structure incorporating technical interventions...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 8 doc

... concepts and interactions and their consequences, and to effectively portray them to a non-expert audience; The increased rigour in understanding the concepts and processes involved, required in order ... 123 FIGURE Photographs of inshore and offshore reefs of the GBR, showing differences in both area and amount of algae, and algal overgrowth of corals (a) Inshore reef, dominated by fleshy brown ... cause of the coral death may be natural, but the failure to recover, and consequent long-term decline in reef condition, may in fact © 2001 by CRC Press LLC 1 18 Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 9 potx

... 199 8 State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, 140 pp Wilkinson, C.R 199 9 Global and local threats to coral reef functioning and ... River in the north It was also low on the outermost reefs in the southern corner (Pompeys and Swains), and on the northern mid- and outershelf reefs The spatial model explained 46% of variation in ... study from the Great Barrier Reef Ecological Applications 8, 480– 496 Dinesen, Z.D 198 3 Patterns in the distribution of soft corals across the central Great Barrier Reef Coral Reefs 1, 2 29 236 Done,...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 10 pdf

... 146 Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs The unpredictable nature of rainfall and runoff events, and the unsteadiness and patchiness of the resulting plume intrusions in a complex ... 152 Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs Toward the end of the flood (Figure 5), all 450 km of inshore waters from Abbot Point in the south to Cairns in the north and through the inter -reef ... 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 region are the Burdekin and Fitzroy...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 11 potx

... Patterns 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 ... Connectivity in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area 175 A southward migration of young -of- the- year and 2-year-old fish then occurs from northern Queensland (see below) to central New South Wales in ... Landscape-scale research and management of the GBRWHA is needed, especially in the poorly known “inter -reef and through the coastal fringe into the catchments ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In developing the...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 12 pot

... to the inter -reef habitat, and M endeavouri straddled both habitats The trawl fleet could fish in both the inshore lagoon and the inter -reef but the cost of fishing increased farther offshore into ... into the inter -reef habitat The line fishery fleet was restricted to the reef- shoal and inter -reef habitats Again it was made slightly more “costly” 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 fuel required, loss of fishing gear in the rougher...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 13 pptx

... on the retention of pre-settlement fish, we present the findings from two independent studies at two physically distinct platform reefs in the central section of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) The ... falling tide and more to the west during rising tide (Gay & Andrews, 1994) The interaction of these far-field currents with the variety of reef shapes and sizes found in the central GBR results in ... Processes of Coral Reefs tide, the net southerly current bifurcated at the northern end of the reef, accelerated along the eastern and western flanks, and recombined to the south, resulting in...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 14 pptx

... along the shelf South of Bowden Reef the reef density is high, i.e., the reefs block about 90% of the length along the shelf Offshore, in the adjoining Coral Sea, the net flow is southward with the ... Review of the Physical Oceanography of the Great Barrier Reef and Western Coral Sea Monograph Series Vol 2, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Canberra, 134 pp Wolanski, E 1994 Physical Oceanographic ... Steering by Coral Reef Assemblages 235 FIGURE Three-dimensional view of the area around Old Reef in the central region of the GBR This view also shows the mooring sites The view is from the north...

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 18 docx

... MOVEMENT WITHIN THE GBR In gaining an insight into the causes of the 1998 GBR bleaching event, first an understanding of the mechanisms which cause water movement, both vertical (mixing) and horizontal ... occurred in the absence of mixing In all bleaching cases, the winds were low Many reefs seemed to escape the bleaching temperatures by interacting with the tidal currents to induce vertical mixing and ... period of little to no mixing and maximum heating (no cloud) Immediately following this period, the wind and tides increased the mixing, and the skin temperature (the temperature sensed by the satellite)...

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 ... Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs Wasson, R.J 1997 Run-off from the land to the rivers and the sea, in Great Barrier Reef Science, Use and Management, Symposium Proceedings Vol 1, Great Barrier Reef ... “would you kindly advise whether Oyster Point and the rest of the Hinchinbrook Channel is within the Great Barrier Reef Region” (letter obtained under Freedom of Information legislation) The Attorney...

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