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... outer barrier. Similar upwelling into the surfacewaters of the Coral Sea on the ebbing tide probably sustains the large amounts of phy-toplankton found just outside the reefs. Phytoplankton pumped ... if there is neither the scientific background norPhysicsBiology Links in theGreatBarrierReef 13â 2001 by CRC Press LLC Physics–Biology Links in theGreatBarrierReef 17FIGURE 5 Photograph ... bywaters about 60 m deep. The windward reef slope isvery steep. At the lee side of thereef and in the lagoonthere are numerous small coral outcrops reaching all the way tothe surface from depths...
... ripar-ian and wetland areas), conflict over the use of these resources is likely to grow in the future. On the basis of the Herbert case study, the changes in land use are clearlyaffecting water ... opportunities for their management in catchments adjacent tothe Great BarrierReef Marine Park. pp. 82–101 in Haynes, D., Kellaway, D & Davis, K. (eds)Proceedings GreatBarrierReef Marine Park ... like the Herbert and Johnstone, and this, togetherwith the fact that different ecosystems are known to have different capacities to assimilate change (ANZECC, 1992), mitigates against the introduction...
... Terrestrial Sediment and Nutrients into theGreatBarrierReef 39TABLE 1Summary Statistics for Major Catchment Basins Draining into theGreatBarrierReef RegionArea Percent Annual Runoff (km3)*Average ... Loadings of theGreatBarrierReef Region. James Cook University, Townsville.Pulsford, J.S. 1993 Historical Nutrient Usage in Coastal Queensland River CatchmentsAdjacent totheGreatBarrierReef ... principal agricultural activity in the GBRcatchment though the total area planted is Ͻ3% of the total catchment area (Gilbert,2000). Most of the remaining area of the GBR catchment is or was covered...
... Bolinao, the diversity of the mixed seagrassbeds 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 ... 1999). The result of the optimization process gives insights into the most cost-effective means to protect reefs under different reef quality targets.104 Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefsâ ... composition in these areas may differ sub-stantially from that in areas with low suspended sediment. This is in part due to the differential ability of the polyps to eject sediment. Hence, coral reefs...
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... care and that might be appropriate to use for policy purposes. Only the findings for the SVM are summarized here.In addition, to further assess the effects of case-mix measure, we compared the ... were consolidated to form VISN 23.RANDMG163-1.1Basic Care patients are “those who have relatively ‘routine’ health care needs. They are principally cared for in the ambulatory care setting, with ... through 6. They are expected to pay specified copayments for the care they receive.Throughout this report, we refer to these patients as Basic Care Priority 7s or Priority 7 veterans.5 Prior to 2002,...
... bars plotted on the x-axis to the left of the figure, and the corresponding fraction of the total 10,000-m2 target area is indicated by red circles and plotted on the axis to the right.5 ... missiles over other attack modes are not in the destructive power that they can carry; they are in the way they carry that power and the distance from which they allow an adversary to control ... target to target. For example, phone calls or other threats have histori-cally proven useful to trigger evacuation of people from the immediate area of a target; once they are evacuated, the people...
... and the Law of the Sea – Report tothe 60th session of the General Assembly, 4 March 2005, para. 104. Chapter 2: Threatstothe Marine Environment 25find their way into the sea from the ... seqq.; A. Pastor et al, “Levels of Heavy Metals in Some Marine Organisms for the Western Mediterranean Area (Spain)”, Chapter 2: Threatstothe Marine Environment 29their way into the marine ... organisms living in the ballast water could prove to be harmful for the particular ecosystem they are discharged into, because of their potentialto alter, inter alia, prevailing predator-prey relationships...
... of combinatorics 12 (2005), #R58 6 • n is even andn2occurs somewhere tothe right of brin bã There is an element x with x occuring to both somewhere tothe left and somewhere to the right ... have terraces without needing to prove the conjecture. Theorem 2.3 implies that the conjecture is true, and hence the originalconstructions are sufficient.Theorem 2.3 There is a terrace which begins ... 10, 11) 25 To conclude, we collect together the old and new results on cyclic solutions to OP(r, r, s)for small values of r.Theorem 3.4 Except for the insoluble case OP(3, 3, 5), there is a...