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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 1 docx

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 1 docx

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... Coral reef ecology Australia Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) 2. Coral reef biology Australia Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) 3. Oceanography Australia Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) 4. Great Barrier Reef (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 to the Great Barrier Reef and demonstrates the impact of human activities on the Great Barrier Reef. While progress is continually being made scientifically with our knowledge of the ecosystem,...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 2 pptx

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 2 pptx

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... 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 PhysicsBiology Links in the Great Barrier Reef 13 â 2001 by CRC Press LLC Physics–Biology Links in the Great Barrier Reef 17 FIGURE 5 Photograph ... by waters about 60 m deep. The windward reef slope is very steep. At the lee side of the reef and in the lagoon there are numerous small coral outcrops reaching all the way to the surface from depths...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 3 docx

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 3 docx

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... 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 to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. pp. 82–101 in Haynes, D., Kellaway, D & Davis, K. (eds) Proceedings Great Barrier Reef 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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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 4 pot

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 4 pot

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... Terrestrial Sediment and Nutrients into the Great Barrier Reef 39 TABLE 1 Summary Statistics for Major Catchment Basins Draining into the Great Barrier Reef Region Area Percent Annual Runoff (km 3 ) * Average ... Loadings of the Great Barrier Reef Region. James Cook University, Townsville. Pulsford, J.S. 1993 Historical Nutrient Usage in Coastal Queensland River Catchments Adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef ... 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...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 7 ppsx

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 7 ppsx

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... 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...
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OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 8 doc

OCEANOGRAPHIC PROCESSES OF CORAL REEFS: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef - Chapter 8 doc

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... State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area 1998. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville. Wolanski, E. 1994 Physical Oceanographic Processes of the Great Barrier Reef. CRC ... of the Great Barrier Reef: what do we know? pp. 194–204 in Wachenfeld, D., Oliver, J., & Davis, K. (eds) State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Report. Workshop Proceedings, Great ... — to the 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...
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Tài liệu Understanding Potential Changes to the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) System - A Regression-Based Approach ppt

Tài liệu Understanding Potential Changes to the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) System - A Regression-Based Approach ppt

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... 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. RANDMG163-1.1 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. 5 Prior to 2002,...
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Evaluating Novel Threats to the Homeland doc

Evaluating Novel Threats to the Homeland doc

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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 2 target area is indicated by red circles and plotted on the axis to the right. 5 ... 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...
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Threats to the Marine Environment: Pollution and Physical Damage pptx

Threats to the Marine Environment: Pollution and Physical Damage pptx

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... and the Law of the Sea – Report to the 60 th session of the General Assembly, 4 March 2005, para. 104. Chapter 2: Threats to the Marine Environment 25 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: Threats to the 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 potential to alter, inter alia, prevailing predator-prey relationships...
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Báo cáo toán học: "Some cyclic solutions to the three table Oberwolfach problem" pptx

Báo cáo toán học: "Some cyclic solutions to the three table Oberwolfach problem" pptx

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... of combinatorics 12 (2005), #R58 6 • n is even and n 2 occurs somewhere to the right of b r in b ã There is an element x with x occuring to both somewhere to the 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. Theorem 2.3 There is a terrace which begins ... 10, 11) 25 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...
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