... frame of the animation. The date associated with
the 3-day animation is also indicated at the top of the key in the lower left of the screen.
As shown in Animation 3, the beginning of the warm ... temperature of the water over and near the
The Sea Surface
Temperature Story on the
Great Barrier Reef during
the Coral Bleaching Event
of 1998
Wi...
... 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 of...
... 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 interactive effects of light and ... Ecosystems of the World 24,
Intertidal and Littoral Ecosystems. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 572 pp.
Brown, B.E. & Holley, M.C. 1981 The influence of tin smelting and ti...
... 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 ... concepts and interactions and their
consequences, and to effectively portray them to a non-expert audience;
2. The increased rigour in understanding the c...
... 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...
... spatial mapping of salinities
was needed to determine the origins of lower salinity events (Ͻ34 ppt) within the reef
matrix of the GBR. Further, understanding the possible fates of river plumes ... 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 reg...
... 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...