human damage to the great barrier reef

... paper) Coral reef ecology Australia Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) Coral reef biology Australia Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) Oceanography Australia Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) ... with different 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 ... Management of the Great Barrier Reef the greatest percentage of available funds was allocated — deliberately — to GBR projects THE RELEVANCE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE GBR In the introductory...

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... behind the outer barrier Similar upwelling into the surface waters of the Coral Sea on the ebbing tide probably sustains the large amounts of phytoplankton found just outside the reefs Phytoplankton ... they can glue onto them and entrain them downward to their death The water circulation over the mud shoals fringing the mangroves encourages the recruitment of prawn larvae spawned offshore The ... with other reef systems, seems invalid Further, non -reef (“inter -reef ) communities are shown to be important “load-bearing” elements in terms of the integrity and health of the larger system The...

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... opportunities for their management in catchments adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park pp 82–101 in Haynes, D., Kellaway, D & Davis, K (eds) Proceedings Great Barrier Reef Marine Park ... the smaller coastal catchments it is reasonable to expect that these changes are most likely to be occurring on the fertile coastal floodplains immediately adjacent to the GBRMP In contrast to ... began in 1992, there was a strong public perception that any environmental degradation affecting the Great Barrier Reef was attributable to the sugar industry, and specifically that the export of...

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... Loadings of the Great Barrier Reef Region James Cook University, Townsville Pulsford, J.S 1993 Historical Nutrient Usage in Coastal Queensland River Catchments Adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef Marine ... Urban 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, ... Great Barrier Reef Research Report No 36, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, 95 pp Furnas, M.J & Mitchell, A.W 1996 Nutrient inputs to the central Great Barrier Reef (Australia)...

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... Bolinao, the diversity of the mixed seagrass beds was reduced with increasing silt load (Bach et al., 1998) From the most to the least tolerant, the seagrass species could be ranked after their tolerance ... et al., 1999) The result of the optimization process gives insights into the most cost-effective means to protect reefs under different reef quality targets © 2001 by CRC Press LLC The Effects ... in the availability of light (Abal et al., 1994), thereby reducing the nutrient requirements of some tropical seagrasses Three photosynthetic parameters have been found to respond strongly to...

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... of the Great Barrier Reef: Science, Use and Management, a National Conference Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville McCook, L.J & Price, I.R 1997b The state of the algae of the Great ... State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area 1998 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville Wolanski, E 1994 Physical Oceanographic Processes of the Great Barrier Reef CRC Marine ... — to the public, to policymakers, and to each other Even the preliminary applications of the model in this chapter demonstrate the utility of this approach as an exploratory and explanatory tool...

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... similarly defined as the distance to the northern end of the GBR divided by the sum of distances to the northern and southern ends of the GBR This has the effect of mapping the GBRMP to a rectangle, ... of outer-shelf of the northern and the southern reefs, respectively © 2001 by CRC Press LLC Biodiversity on the Great Barrier Reef 135 The contribution of soft coral cover to total coral cover ... to over 60% on the inner-shelf, between 15 and 43% on mid-shelfs, and 10 to 40% on the outer-shelf reefs On mid- and outer-shelf reefs, it tended to be higher in the northern than in the southern...

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... reached the mid-shelf reefs By rewinding the animation, it is possible to see that the runoff water took about 18 to 22 days to reach these mid-shelf reefs after leaving the river mouth Therefore the ... in the Central Great Barrier Reef 153 Toward the end of the flood, 7.5 to 10 m sϪ1 southerly winds pushed the plume waters northward with water about 30 ppt reaching to the Palms (Figure 8) Then ... completely freshwater at the surface and the winds had pushed plume waters into the bay to the south of the mouth of the Burdekin River Note that the plume waters to the north from the previous peak...

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... degrees) between biotopes The montage of biotopes at the bottom of Figure 1, and Figures to 7, summarise the habitats linked in some way to the ecology of the lutjanid family (and others) of fish ... comparisons with the Great Barrier Reef: 1960 to 1992 Coral Reefs 17, 351 –367 Lucas, P.H.C., Webb, T., Valentine, P.S., & Marsh, H 1998 The Outstanding Universal Value of the Great Barrier Reef World ... recreational fishing interest in the Great Barrier Reef Research Publication (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority) Number 33 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, 103 pp Williams,...

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... Environmental Effects of Prawn Trawling on the Far Northern Section of the Great Barrier Reef Final report the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and to the Fisheries Research and Development ... The trawl fleet could fish in both the inshore lagoon and the inter -reef but the cost of fishing increased farther offshore into the inter -reef habitat The line fishery fleet was restricted to ... considered as an import to the lagoon and inter -reef system from the land and from the reef proper The autotroph biomass component of the ecosystem was increased to provide the required detritus,...

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... were not The model predicted the greatest abundance of small/medium fish along the reef face from the northeast sector around to the southern end; a more uniform distribution along the reef face ... immediately adjacent to the reef (Figures 7a and d) During ebb tide, the net northeasterly current bifurcated to the west of the reef, accelerated around the northern and southern ends, and recombined ... in the central section of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) The first of these studies was of short duration and occurred at Helix Reef, a small, topographically simple, oval-shaped reef; and the...

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... indicated on the bottom Australia is to the right and the Coral Sea to the left The view is vertically distorted, mean depth around the reefs is 40 to 60 m, and the width of the outer shelf where reefs ... south Australia is to the right and the Coral Sea to the left The view is vertically distorted, mean depth around the reefs is 40 to 60 m, and the width of the outer shelf where reefs are scattered ... 1) The transect passes between Bowden Reef and Darnley Reef North of Bowden Reef, the reef density is low, i.e., the reefs block about 10% of the distance along the shelf South of Bowden Reef the...

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... event in GBR north of the Whitsunday Islands THE SOUTHERN GBR STORY The story in the southern GBR, south of the Whitsunday Islands, was somewhat different to that of the north There was considerably ... exchange of water due to turbulence © 2001 by CRC Press LLC The Sea Surface Temperature Story on the Great Barrier Reef 305 causes the cooler bottom waters to become mixed with the warmer upper waters, ... suggests that isolated reefs are vulnerable to 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 Bunker...

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... List, the Great Barrier Reef is the site to be chosen” (IUCN, 1981) The GBR is said to be worth over $1 billion annually to Queensland About 25% of the visitors are from overseas, and over the ... –310 GBRMPA (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority) Workshop 1997 Protection of Wetlands Adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef Workshop Series, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, ... adjacent to the GBR Marine Park Workshop Proceedings: Protection of Wetlands Adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, 82–98 Lindeboom, H.J 2000 The...

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... for them to catch in nearby waters Tourists visit the reef to scuba dive and learn about nature The wonders of the reef lie very close to the water's surface Thé GreatBarrier Reef Great Barrier ... activities on the Creat Barrier Reef' s ecosystems Reef Education Network www .reef. edu.au This site gives information on the environmental issues affecting the Creat Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef ... Great Barrier Reef Facts • The Great Barrier Reef stretches about 1,250 miles (2,012 kilometers) along Australia's northeast coast • The Great Barrier Reef is the largest structure in the world built...

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... In the present work, the part of the phosphate donor that is necessary for the dimer–tetramer transition of native hTK1 purified from human lymphocytes was identified Further, the effect of the ... kDa (see Table 1) Therefore, it can be concluded that the nature of the base is insignificant for the tetramerization effect The next goal was to determine the role played by the sugar and phosphate ... high Km and the tetramer has low Km, and the ratio between the two forms depends on the dThd 574 concentration [24] According to this model, the simultaneous presence in the assay of the two forms...

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... the views of the author and does not necessarily represent the positions of the Lifeboat Foundation Publisher’s page: lifeboat.com/ex/book Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/thehumanraceto To ... Pages) Topsy-Turvy: When the North and South Poles Switch The prehistory of the Earth contains numerous cases where the poles reversed Currently, the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, and the ... Wesch’s The end of wonder in the age of whatever”… the reader will share the excitement and joy of this integration of futurism and popular science According to the author, “My goal is a view of the...

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... have been suggested to exert a photoprotective function or to render the internal light spectrum favorable for zooxanthellae photosynthesis [28–31] However, the nature of the photoprotective mechanism ... way to the coloration of M cavernosa The red fluorescent morph Coloration of reef corals showed high-level transcription of the green -to- red photoconvertible protein mcavRFP In the green morph, the ... Possibly, the conjugated p-electron system does not extend as far into the imidazolyl group of the chromophore as in other green -to- red photoconverting proteins, due to a noncoplanar arrangement of the...

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... corresponding to the theoretical GST C-lobe fusion product, so this possibility seems unlikely Studies with synthetic peptide A B To investigate the identity of the F11 epitope further, a synthetic ... (Table 1) To confirm the mAb F11 epitope, the hTF-5D construct, which showed the greatest reactivity with the mAb F11, was mutated at two different residues to mimic the sequence of either pig ... to residues 365–385 of the hTF C-lobe The mAb F11 blocked binding of hTF to the TFR; this suggests the antibody epitope contains residues that are located in the vicinity of the ligand–receptor...

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... reflect the views of the Executive Directors of The World Bank or the governments they represent The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work The boundaries, colors, ... crisis since the Great Depression during the 1930s, prompting some to refer to it as the Great Recession.” The Jobs Crisis Eastern Europe and Central Asia Were Particularly Hard Hit by the Global ... al (2010) The former report focuses on (i) whether the transition from planned to market economies might have made the region’s countries more vulnerable to the crisis; (ii) whether the choices...

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