... Coral reef ecology Australia GreatBarrierReef (Qld.) 2. Coral reef
biology Australia GreatBarrierReef (Qld.) 3. Oceanography Australia GreatBarrier
Reef (Qld.) 4. GreatBarrierReef (Qld.) ... be
minimised.
THE NEED TO MANAGE THE GBR
Recognition of the need to wisely manage the GBR is not new, nor is it isolated from
the time of greatest awareness of the need to nationally coordinate the wise ... relation totheGreatBarrierReef and
demonstrates the impact of human activities on theGreatBarrier Reef.
While progress is continually being made scientifically with our knowledge of
the ecosystem,...
... outer barrier. Similar upwelling into the surface
waters of the Coral Sea on the ebbing tide probably sustains the large amounts of phy-
toplankton found just outside the reefs. Phytoplankton pumped ... if there is neither the scientific background nor
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waters about 60 m deep. The windward reef slope is
very steep. At the lee side of thereef and in the lagoon
there are numerous small coral outcrops reaching all
the way tothe surface from depths...
... ripar-
ian and wetland areas), conflict over the use of these resources is likely to grow in the
future. On the basis of the Herbert case study, the changes in land use are clearly
affecting water ... opportunities for their management in catchments adjacent tothe Great
BarrierReef Marine Park. pp. 82–101 in Haynes, D., Kellaway, D & Davis, K. (eds)
Proceedings GreatBarrierReef Marine Park ... like the Herbert and Johnstone, and this, together
with the fact that different ecosystems are known to have different capacities to
assimilate change (ANZECC, 1992), mitigates against the introduction...
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TABLE 1
Summary Statistics for Major Catchment Basins Draining into theGreatBarrierReef Region
Area Percent Annual Runoff (km
3
)
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Average ... Loadings of theGreatBarrierReef Region. James Cook University, Townsville.
Pulsford, J.S. 1993 Historical Nutrient Usage in Coastal Queensland River Catchments
Adjacent totheGreatBarrierReef ... principal agricultural activity in the GBR
catchment though the total area planted is Ͻ3% of the total catchment area (Gilbert,
2000). Most of the remaining area of the GBR catchment is or was covered...
... Bolinao, the diversity of the mixed seagrass
beds was reduced with increasing silt load (Bach et al., 1998). From the most to the
least tolerant, the seagrass species could be ranked after their tolerance ... 1999). The
result of the optimization process gives insights into the most cost-effective means to
protect reefs under different reef quality targets.
104 Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs
â ... composition in these areas may differ sub-
stantially from that in areas with low suspended sediment. This is in part due to the
differential ability of the polyps to eject sediment. Hence, coral reefs...
... State of theGreatBarrierReef World
Heritage Area 1998. GreatBarrierReef Marine Park Authority, Townsville.
Wolanski, E. 1994 Physical Oceanographic Processes of theGreatBarrier Reef. CRC ... of theGreatBarrier Reef: what do we
know? pp. 194–204 in Wachenfeld, D., Oliver, J., & Davis, K. (eds) State of the Great
BarrierReef World Heritage Area Report. Workshop Proceedings, Great ... — tothe public, to policymakers, and to each other.
Even the preliminary applications of the model in this chapter demonstrate the
utility of this approach as an exploratory and explanatory tool...
... care and that might be appropriate to use for policy purposes. Only the
findings for the SVM are summarized here.
In addition, to further assess the effects of case-mix measure, we compared the ... were consolidated to form VISN 23.
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Basic Care patients are “those who have relatively ‘routine’ health care needs. They
are principally cared for in the ambulatory care setting, with ... through 6. They are expected to pay specified copayments for the care they receive.
Throughout this report, we refer to these patients as Basic Care Priority 7s or Priority 7 veterans.
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... bars plotted on the x-axis
to the left of the figure, and the corresponding fraction of the total
10,000-m
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target area is indicated by red circles and plotted on the axis
to the right.
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... missiles over other
attack modes are not in the destructive power that they can carry; they
are in the way they carry that power and the distance from which they
allow an adversary to control ...
target to target. For example, phone calls or other threats have histori-
cally proven useful to trigger evacuation of people from the immediate
area of a target; once they are evacuated, the people...
... and the Law of the Sea – Report tothe 60
th
session of the General
Assembly, 4 March 2005, para. 104.
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find their way into the sea from the ... seqq.; A. Pastor et al, “Levels of
Heavy Metals in Some Marine Organisms for the Western Mediterranean Area (Spain)”,
Chapter 2: Threatstothe Marine Environment
29
their way into the marine ... organisms living in the ballast water could
prove to be harmful for the particular ecosystem they are discharged into, because
of their potentialto alter, inter alia, prevailing predator-prey relationships...
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• n is even and
n
2
occurs somewhere tothe right of b
r
in b
ã There is an element x with x occuring to both somewhere tothe left and somewhere
to the right ... have terraces without needing to prove
the conjecture. Theorem 2.3 implies that the conjecture is true, and hence the original
constructions are sufficient.
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To conclude, we collect together the old and new results on cyclic solutions to OP(r, r, s)
for small values of r.
Theorem 3.4 Except for the insoluble case OP(3, 3, 5), there is a...