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Turbidity and light attenuation in coastal waters of the Great Barrier Reef
... the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (GBRWHA) is protection of the ecological systems from water-borne contaminants such as sediment and nutrients (GBRMPA ...the Great Barrier Reef ...
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Ecology and biology of coral disease on the Great Barrier Reef
... This study examines the implications of disease for the structure and resilience of Great Barrier Reef (GBR) coral assemblages. Annual disease surveys in the northern and central sections of the GBR between ...
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Tactile landscape: visitors at the Great Barrier Reef
... The Great Barrier Reef is broadly characterised as belonging to the tropics and most of the region enjoys a warm, dry winter (Dry Season) and a hot and humid summer (Wet ...a barrier between the body ...
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Connectivity and systemic resilience of the Great Barrier Reef
... iconic 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 ...
Biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef: how adequately is it protected?
... Despite the wider background level of threat for these 136 species, only 23 of them (17%) are listed as threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, 1999 (Australian Government, 2015) or ...
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Climate change, the Great Barrier Reef, and the response of Australians
... the Great Barrier Reef, with responses in this study being strongly skewed towards an extreme threat rather than a minor threat ...the Great Barrier ...the Great Barrier Reef ...
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Keeping the 'Great' in the Great Barrier Reef: large-scale governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
... the Great Barrier Reef: The GBRMP Act is an over-arching piece of legislation that has endured for over 38 years, which sets up the governance system for the marine ...
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Extended periods of coral recruitment on the Great Barrier Reef
... Abstract. Highly synchronous spawning of many coral species followed by rapid settlement of larvae should result in a brief annual influx of recruits onto reefs. Here, we show that contrary to this prediction, Acropora ...
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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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The surface circulation of the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef
... Steinberg, C.R., Choukroun, S.M., Bird, J.C., Skirving, W.J., Mason, L.B., BODE, L., Heron, S.F., HERON, M.L., Strong, A.E., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Bayler, E.J. The development of Thermal Stratification leading to Coral ...
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The surface circulation of the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef
... The drifter results also provide the evidence of two bifurcations along the GBR shelf, one located at 15°S and the other one at 19°S which may vary in intensity with the seasons depending on the strength of the jets and ...
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Ecology and biology of coral disease on the Great Barrier Reef
... of Great Barrier Reef (GBR) scleractinians and other common anthozoans were documented in large-scale annual surveys completed on 18 reefs between 2004 and ...
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The exposure of the Great Barrier Reef to ocean acidification
... he 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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The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: development, diversity and change
... the Great Barrier Reef, has become ...the Great Barrier Reef and assesses the influences of sea-level change and oceanographic processes on the development of reefs over the last 10 000 ...the ...
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The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef: development, diversity and change
... 5.5 Great Barrier Reef Committee, 1, 8, 9, 10, 314 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (GBRMP), 1, 2 ...447 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park ...
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Impaired recovery of the Great Barrier Reef under cumulative stress
... Corals of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have declined over the past 30 years. While reef state depends on the balance between disturbance and recovery, most studies have focused on the effects of disturbance ...
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Coal, cumulative impacts, and the Great Barrier Reef
... the Great Barrier Reef on the List of World Heritage in ...the Great Barrier Reef depends on transformational change in the cumulative assessment of Australian coal ...
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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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The Great Barrier Reef: an environmental history
... examines various human impacts on marine turtles, including those due to the tortoise-shell industry, the commercial turtle fisheries, the recreational activity of turtle-riding, a turtle farming initiative and ...
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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.
... the Great Barrier Reef is valued at approximately $30–50 million per year with coral trout (Plectropomus ...the Great Barrier Reef (Randall and Hoese ...
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