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Compilation of information on the interaction of reef sharks with the reef line fishery in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park: final report to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
... of reef sharks in zones closed to fishing (MNP) were on average above (by approximately 50%) but not significantly different from numbers in open zones (GU), while those in no-entry zones were much higher than ...
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A Review on the Great Barrier Reef: Australia
... Great Barrier Reef of Australia is considered as one among the Seven Natural Wonders of the ...coral reef stretching 2,300 kilometers along the Queensland coastline and covering an area of 344,400 ...
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Deep-reef fish assemblages of the Great Barrier Reef shelf-break (Australia)
... Tropical mesophotic and sub-mesophotic fish ecology is poorly understood despite increasing vulnerability of deeper fish assemblages. Worldwide there is greater fishing pressure on continental shelf-breaks and the ...
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Quantifying water flow within aquatic ecosystems using load cell sensors: a profile of currents experienced by coral reef organisms around Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... could not be transformed to comply with assumptions of normality and homogeneity of variances necessary for linear models. Consequently, differences among locations of equal depth and exposure were examined using a ...
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Keeping the 'Great' in the Great Barrier Reef: large-scale governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
... Our analysis provides clear examples of how complexity and scale affect the classical interpretation of design principles. In large scale systems, the size of the resource system and interactions between resource units, ...
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The Great Barrier Reef: an environmental history
... Great Barrier Reef at the time of European settlement - if those were possible to produce - could reveal subsequent changes in the coral reefs and associated habitats of the ...coral reef areas in ...
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Code of Practice for dwarf minke whale interactions in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
... The main research focuses of the Minke Whale Project (MWP) include dwarf minke whale biology and behaviour, and the sustainable management of their interactions with boats and swimmers in the Great Barrier ...
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Literary Representations of The Great Barrier Reef
... the reef except for reinforcing its perils for ...the reef no doubt brought to mind intimations of the sublime, of which Edmund Burke had just written A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas ...
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'Reality' Fiction and the Great Barrier Reef
... the reef is serious business for the researchers, who are mouthpieces for modern scientific environmental and ecological ...the reef so as to aid in its conservation, and protect against its ...Great ...
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Satisfaction of Australian grey tourists to the Great Barrier Reef islands of Queensland
... Great Barrier Reef are grey tourist (senior) friendly and living up to the expectations and meeting or surpassing the satisfaction levels of their ...Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, ...
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Fisheries Queensland Long Term Monitoring Program Underwater Visual Census of twenty-four reefs on the Great Barrier Reef between 1999 and 2004.
... This long term monitoring of the reef fishery aims to monitor the population densities of these key target species. The clear water associated with coral reefs and relative ease with which the target species can ...
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Estimating the radiation environment in the Great Barrier Reef
... To overcome the scarcity of solar radiation data in the Great Barrier Reef, this study develops techniques which use satellite data to provide a long-term climatology of surface broadban[r] ...
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The exposure of the Great Barrier Reef to ocean acidification
... Great Barrier Reef (GBR) ecosystem, described as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, is under increasing pressure from local and global anthropogenic stressors 1 ...
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Coal, cumulative impacts, and the Great Barrier Reef
... Great Barrier Reef on the List of World Heritage in ...Great Barrier Reef depends on transformational change in the cumulative assessment of Australian coal ...
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Integrating observations: an example from the Great Barrier Reef
... 33 Integrating Observations: An Example From the Great Barrier Reef Lessons From the Reef on Why Integration Matters And Why Achieving Integration is Harder Than It Looks By Scott Bainbr[r] ...
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Trematodes of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: emerging patterns of diversity and richness in coral reef fishes
... Cribb, T H and Bott, N J and Bray, R A and McNamara, M K A and Miller, T L and Nolan, M J and Cutmore, S C (2014) Trematodes of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: emerging patterns of diversity and richness ...
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Connectivity and systemic resilience of the Great Barrier Reef
... Great Barrier Reef (GBR) continues to suffer from repeated impacts of cyclones, coral bleaching, and outbreaks of the coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), losing much of its coral cover in the ...
Responses of reef fish communities to coral declines on the Great Barrier Reef
... in reef fish commu- nity structure, there was still great variability in responses among fish ...of reef fish communities and that some reef communities on the GBR may be naturally less resilient ...
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Tactile landscape: visitors at the Great Barrier Reef
... with Reef creatures in a way that encouraged similar interaction by others (Film Australia ...that Reef creatures – or nature more broadly – is benign and ...the Reef is in danger from our tactile ...
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Predicting the location and spatial extent of submerged coral reef habitat in the Great Barrier Reef world heritage area, Australia
... Predictive habitat modelling has been used in a variety of ecological applications, including predictive modelling of rare or endangered species [34,35], conservation planning [36,37], and predicting climate change ...
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