... 19 98 State of the Great Barrier Reef World
Heritage Area 19 98. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville.
Wolanski, E. 1994 Physical Oceanographic Processes of the Great Barrier Reef. ... concepts and interactions and their
consequences, and to effectively portray them to a non-expert audience;
2. The increased rigour in understanding th...
... temperature of the water over and near the
The Sea Surface
Temperature Story on the
Great Barrier Reef during
the Coral Bleaching Event
of 19 98
William Skirving and John Guinotte
CONTENTS
Introduction ... bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef.
Coral Reefs 18, 55–60.
Berkelmans, R. & Willis, B.L. 1999 Seasonal and local spatial patterns in...
... for maintaining existing seagrass meadows or inshore
coral reefs in the GBR.
Quantifying the sediment-induced degradation of seagrass and inshore coral
reefs is also the focus of Fortes (Chapter ... other reef systems, seems invalid. Further,
non -reef (“inter -reef ) communities are shown to be important “load-bearing” ele-
ments in terms of the integrity and he...
... cropping and pastoral activities in the catchments
adjoining the GBR.
CATCHMENTS ADJOINING THE GBR
Continental drainage basins with an aggregate area of 425,000 km
2
drain into the
Great Barrier ... concentrations and fluxes in North Queensland coastal rivers and
streams. pp. 1 08 161 in Proceedings of the Workshop on Land-Use Patterns and Nutrient
Loadings o...
... Map of the GBR indicating the locations of
the sampled reefs. Colour codes define the position of
the sampling points on the continental shelf: inner-shelf
reefs are located on the innermost 38% ... LLC
Biodiversity on the Great Barrier Reef 143
FIGURE 10 Spatial plot of soft coral cover, hard coral
cover, and the proportion of soft corals of the to...
... ending 1 986 and 1 981 demonstrating the spatial and temporal vari-
ability inherent in the flow rates from the major rivers of the Central GBR. The rain-
fall event most influencing the 1 986 hydrographs ... rivers intruding into the GBR from
Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. The mainland catchments have been divided into 35
drainage basins. The two largest basins...
... Lutjanidae, Lethrinidae and Serranidae (Epinephelinae) within and among mid-shelf
and outer-shelf reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef. Marine and Freshwater Research
48, 119–1 28.
Odum, W.E. ... system in which the non -reef communities are important “load bearing”
elements in terms of the integrity and health of the larger system. The extent and
na...