Great Barrier Reef lagoon
Meso-scale patterns in the distribution of larval fishes across the central Great Barrier Reef lagoon and relationships with environmental variability
... Total number, maximum catch number light-trap-hr 1 , and size ranges of larval and juvenile fishes collected in the light traps from waters of the central Great Barrier Reef lagoon in 19[r] ...
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Tracing the sources, transport and dispersal of suspended sediment from the Burdekin River catchment into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon
... Physical and biological flocculation processes accelerated suspended sediment deposition near the Burdekin River mouth (Fig. 2.5), a finding in line with studies on other large turbid river plumes (e.g. Fly River: Ayukai ...
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Marine microbial communities of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon are influenced by riverine floodwaters and seasonal weather events
... coral reef health is increasingly recog- ...inshore Great Barrier Reef (GBR), with unknown consequences for planktonic marine microbial communities and thus coral ...GBR lagoon, as well ...
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Reproduction and growth of the winged pearl oyster, Pteria penguin (Röding, 1798) in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon
... sterna in Baja California concluded that collectors should not remain immersed for longer than eight weeks at a time, in order to avoid over-exposure to predators, e.g. buccanid and pyramidelid gastropods, tubellarid ...
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Phenology of Trichodesmium spp. blooms in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, Australia, from the ESA-MERIS 10-year mission
... The GBR has a monsoonal climate with most rainfall occurring during the wet season (summer, November to April, >1,500 mm/year), resulting in episodic large river runoffs that may decrease the lagoonal water salinity ...
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Effects of priority herbicides and their breakdown products on tropical, estuarine microalgae of the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon
... Herbicide contamination is ubiquitous in rivers and coastal waters in Queensland, Australia. Globally, most ecotoxicological studies to date investigating the toxicity of herbicides have focused on temperate ...
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Distribution and abundance of two juvenile tropical Photololigo species (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae) in the central Great Barrier Reef Lagoon
... 311 Mo/tschaniwskyj and Doherty: Distribution and abundance ofjuvenile Photololigo Table 7 Depth of the thermocline m at each station on each night of sampling during the three months of[r] ...
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Managing ground cover for economic and sustainability outcomes on grazing lands in the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon catchments : Literature Review
... Another case study funded through the NQDT facilitated Reef Water Quality Grants was completed on Illamahta Station in Collinsville, Queensland (NQ Dry Tropics, 2015). In this case an active four (4) hectare gully ...
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Flushing time of solutes and pollutants in the central Great Barrier Reef lagoon, Australia
... the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has received considerable scientific attention over recent years (Hoegh-Guldberg 1999; Anthony 2000; Haynes et ...the reef environment of the GBR, which in some ...
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Effects of priority herbicides and their breakdown products on tropical, estuarine microalgae of the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon
... larger in the benthos (Safi, 2003). Without access to the complete data-sets it is difficult to make actual community structure comparisons between studies, however, from the species- list appended in Safi (2003), it is ...
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Diuron tolerance and potential degradation by pelagic microbiomes in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon
... To explore the reasons for the lack of rapid heterotrophic degradation of diuron in the incubation experiment and the potential for diuron degradation in the GBR lagoon at large, we looked for phenylurea hydrolase ...
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The Great Barrier Reef: an environmental history
... the Great Barrier Reef lagoon since European settlement, due to the runoff of sediments, nutrients and chemicals from agricultural and pastoral land, especially as a result of cattle grazing ...
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The exposure of the Great Barrier Reef to ocean acidification
... GBR lagoon is determined by the interaction of the above-mentioned basin-scale forcing, seasonal winds patterns, and the restricted flow through GBR outer ...
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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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The functional morphology, systematics and behavioural ecology of parrotfishes (family Scaridae)
... 1981 Spatial and temporal patterns of recruitment of juvenile coral reef fishes to coral habitats within One Tree Lagoon, Great Barrier Reef.. envelope at night by..[r] ...
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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 (Young 2002), they can arguably still be used to inform the process of creating effective and legitimate governance ...
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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
... Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery (CRFFF) of the Great Barrier Reef is a multi-species line fishery that targets high value teleost species, often for live export to Asian ...coral reef ...
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Responses of reef fish communities to coral declines on the Great Barrier Reef
... coral reef ecosystems to major disturbances has been documented (Sano 2000, Hal- ford et ...many reef systems have shifted from coral to algal dominance and are perceived to be in a degraded state (Hughes ...
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Integrating social and biophysical data to develop and evaluate marine protected area planning at a local scale: the 1998 Cairns Area Plan of Management as a case study
... the reef); hire operation (includes hire craft and equipment and bareboats); support service operation (where a vessel or aircraft is used to service another vessel); and cruise ship operations (vessels more than ...
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The ecosystem role of macroalgal browsing fishes on coral reefs
... Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Internal Research Awards and Graduate Research Scheme, the Australian Coral Reef Society, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and the ...
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