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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 2 pptx
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... sediment-induced degradation of seagrass and inshore coral
reefs is also the focus of Fortes (Chapter 7, this book). He describes the effects of
siltation on seagrass, coral reefs, and mangroves with ... frequently and severely affected.
Some mid-shelf reefs and most offshore coral reefs may be far enough offshore
to be spared the direct impact of increased sediment and nutrient pulses from land
use; ... from
offshore reefs to coastal reefs and mangroves, in “places, processes and protein.” The
popular view of reefs as somewhat self-contained biological islands, which are linked
through episodes of...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The importance of being dimeric pptx
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thus, reducing the amount of defects and of protein-
entrapped water. This may represent an important fac-
tor for the stability of larger dimers.
The importance of being dimeric
Taking into ... feature,
namely that of the surprisingly high number of pro-
teins made up of two subunits (Fig. 1). This finding is
even stranger when one realizes that most of these pro-
teins are made up of two identical ... (kcal/mol)
Fig. 2. Free energy of unfolding per residue for monomeric (d) and
dimeric (s) proteins as a function of the total number of amino acids.
The importance of being dimeric G. Mei et al.
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Summary report of coral reefs in Spartly Islands in April 2005 potx
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 1 docx
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... awareness of the occurrence of the crown -of- thorns starfish, and of its
adverse impact on hard corals of the GBR, grew dramatically in the late 1960s and
early 1970s. The then Premier of Queensland ... and
involved in wise management of the GBR — and of all coral reef systems.
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Simon Spagnol
Australian Institute of Marine Science
PMB 3
Townsville ... because of the amount of money
already expended — and perhaps because some preliminary site works have already
commenced. This type of process is ecologically unsustainable.
Two acts of Parliament of...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 3 docx
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catchments in Queensland (Moller, 1996) has shown that the ecological condition of
remaining ... 2001 by CRC Press LLC
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catchment. The catchment has a population of approximately 18,000 (1993 Census),
of which 75% are located in the lower catchment.
LANDCOVER
A ... Assessment of Queensland Wetlands and Deep Water Habitats.
Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, Townsville.
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 4 pot
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... 1.6–33
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PN ϭ 0.13% of sediment weight and PN ϭ 40% of ⌺N.
b
PP ϭ 0.04% of sediment weight and PP ϭ 80% of P.
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TABLE 1 (continued)
Area ... approximately 4% of the volume of seawater inshore of the 20-m isobath.
Because of lateral resistance to flow, Coriolis steering of buoyancy currents, and the
event-based nature of river discharge, ... catchments of Cape York (e.g., Normanby River)
and the dry catchments of the southern half of the GBR (e.g., Burdekin and Burnett
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 7 ppsx
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EFFECTS OF SILTATION ON MANGROVES
Siltation is of primary importance in the development of mangroves. Highest pro-
ductivity ... survival.
RESPONSES OF CORALS TO
SILTATION/SEDIMENTATION
Sediment deposition and suspended sediments affect coral community structure dif-
ferently. The inability of coral planulae to settle in areas where soft ... al., 1989). Of these, light availability is considered one of the
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Fonseca, M.S. & Kenworthy, W.J. 1987 Effects of current...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 8 doc
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... Ecology 81, 2250–2263.
Causes of Coral Reef Degradation 121
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ANIMATION 1 Trajectories of algal and coral
abundance through time ... Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs
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K
sf
ϭ proportional dependence of F on S
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caa
ϭ at equilibrium, relative dominance of competitiveness for space of adult
coral over algae
K
scaa
ϭ ... algae. Algal overgrowth of
dead corals is a general consequence of natural disturbances such as storm damage,
severe mass bleaching of corals, or outbreak feeding of crown -of- thorns starfish
(McCook...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 9 potx
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... Spatial plot of soft coral cover, hard coral
cover, and the proportion of soft corals of the total
coral cover (soft coral plus hard coral cover).
FIGURE 11 Soft coral cover, hard coral cover, ... locally. Soft coral richness
increased with soft coral cover in areas Ͻ8% soft coral cover, but remained at ~10 gen-
era per transect, independently of soft coral cover, where soft coral cover ... crests of outer-shelf of the northern
and the southern reefs, respectively.
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