... determine the origins of lower salinity events (Ͻ34 ppt) within the reef
matrix of the GBR. Further, understanding the possible fates of river plumes is a key
question for the management of the ... 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 in this...
... 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. 108 –161 in Proceedings of the Workshop on Land-Use Patterns and Nutrient
Loadings...
... & Holley, M.C. 1981 The influence of tin smelting and tin dredging on the inter-
tidal reef flats of Phuket, Thailand. pp. 214 in
Proceedings Fourth International Coral
Reef Symposium, Manila, ... of the fauna and flora of mangrove swamps and forests in
the Indo-Pacific region. Advances Marine Biology 6, 73–270.
Madsen, T.V. & Sand-Jensen, K. 1994 The...
... implications in terms of attribut-
ing causality, since the immediate cause of the coral death may be natural, but the fail-
ure to recover and consequent long-term decline in reef condition may in fact ... on the Great Barrier Reef: a review
of patterns and causes. pp. 37–46 in Proceedings of the Great Barrier Reef: Science, Use
and Management, a...
... Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is part of
the Indo-Pacific biogeographic region, and contains a subset of the Indo-Pacific taxa
found in the most species-rich ... arrow).
FIGURE 1 Map of the GBR indicating the locations of
the sampled reefs. Colour codes define the position of
the sampling points on the contin...
... 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
nature of the seaward influence of human ... else-
where in the western Indo-Pacific. The early closure during any ice age of the shal-
low Torres Straits seaway to the north of the GBR ensured that...
... to line-fish in the offshore sections
of these habitats rather than in the more accessible inshore edge of the reef shoal and
inter -reef. The rationale for these increasing costs was the increased ... inter -reef but the cost of fishing increased farther offshore into the
inter -reef habitat. The line fishery fleet was restricted to the reef- shoal and in...