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The Great Barrier Reef: Vulnerabilities and solutions in the face of ocean acidification
1. Introduction. The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the largest living structure in the world, covering an area of more than 344,000 km 2.Long and relatively narrow, the GBR extends 2300 km alongside Australia's northeast coast with its width ranging between 100 km in the north to 200 km in the south (Brodie and Pearson, 2016).The reef begins in the north at Australia's Cape York Peninsula ...
Progressive seawater acidification on the Great Barrier Reef
We present 10 years of data (2009-2019) on the long-term trends and sources of variation in the carbon chemistry from two fixed stations in the Australian Great Barrier Reef.
Response of the Great Barrier Reef to sea-level and ...
The Great Barrier Reef has migrated rapidly in response to sea-level changes since the last glacial period, suggesting resilience to environmental stress over this interval, according to a ...
Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages
In the northern, 700-km-long section of the Great Barrier Reef (from 9.5-14.5 °S), in which the heat exposure was the most extreme, 50.3% of the coral cover on reef crests was lost within eight ...
Saving the Great Barrier Reef: these recent research breakthroughs give
A healthy Great Barrier Reef is home to at least 1,625 species of fish. LTMP , Author provided Over the coming months, the program will be conducting more trials on the reef.
Climate change disables coral bleaching protection on the Great Barrier
The Australian Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is one of Earth's most extraordinary natural wonders, but it is vulnerable to climate change. Ainsworth et al. have tracked the effects of three decades of increasing heat stress on coral organisms. In the past, pulses of elevated temperatures that presaged hot seasons stimulated the acclimation of coral organisms and resilience to thermal stress.
Connectivity and systemic resilience of the Great Barrier Reef
Author summary Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a large coral ecosystem consisting of more than 3,800 reefs. Coral populations inhabiting these reefs are connected by larvae that are dispersed by ocean currents. Modelling regional connectivity patterns reveals reefs that can act as prominent larval sources and supply larvae to other coral populations in the area. Coral populations on reefs ...
Ocean Acidification Has Impacted Coral Growth on the Great Barrier Reef
Geophysical Research Letters is an AGU journal publishing high-impact, ... Search for more papers by this author. Muriel Leung, ... temperature and show that OA alone has caused 13 ± 3% decline in the skeletal density of massive Porites corals on the Great Barrier Reef since 1950.
Global Change Biology
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is an iconic coral reef system extending over 2000 km along the north-east coast of Australia. Global recognition of its Outstanding Universal Value resulted in the listing of the 348 000 km 2 GBR World Heritage Area (WHA) by UNESCO in 1981. Despite various levels of national and international protection, the condition of GBR ecosystems has deteriorated over the ...
Changing dynamics of Great Barrier Reef hard coral cover in the
Cycles of disturbance and recovery govern the temporal dynamics of living coral cover on coral reefs. Monitoring the state of the Great Barrier Reef at regional and individual reef scales has been ongoing by the Long-Term Monitoring Program at the Australian Institute of Marine Science since 1986. After a period of relative stability between 1986 and 2010, the latest decade of surveys recorded ...
Water Quality and River Plume Monitoring in the Great Barrier Reef: An
A strong driver of water quality change in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the pulsed or intermittent nature of terrestrial inputs into the GBR lagoon, including delivery of increased loads of sediments, nutrients, and toxicants via flood river plumes (hereafter river plumes) during the wet season. Cumulative pressures from extreme weather with a high frequency of large scale flooding in ...
Biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef—how adequately is it protected?
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the world's most iconic coral reef ecosystem, recognised internationally as a World Heritage Area of outstanding significance. ... Likewise, a recent paper documenting the impact of the 2016 coral bleaching event (Hughes et al., ... Research Publication No 109, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority ...
A contemporary baseline record of the world's coral reefs
Multi-temporal images exist for some reef locations before and after the 2016 global mass bleaching event in the Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia, Maldives, Philippines, Hawaii and Taiwan.
Pesticides in the Great Barrier Reef catchment area: Plausible risks to
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem and a World Heritage site that is facing serious threats from multiple pressures, particularly climate change impacts (i.e., coral bleaching, cyclones, flood events, and ocean acidification), Crown of Thorns starfish, coastal development, and poor water quality.
Large‐scale bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef
Ecology is a leading journal publishing original research and synthesis papers on all aspects of ecology, with ... Two earlier mass bleaching events occurred on the Great Barrier Reef in 1998 and 2002, that were less severe than 2016. In 2016, <9% of scored reefs had no bleaching, compared to 42% in 2002 and 44% in 1998. Conversely, the ...
Science and the management of coral reefs
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has played a substantial role in knowledge sharing and development of international programs of coral reef research and management. This paper draws on that experience to provide a brief overview of the application of coral reef science in development of management for conservation and resource sustainability. 2.
The coral conservation crisis: interacting local and global ...
Over the last 3 decades, living coral cover has declined roughly 53% in the Western Atlantic, 40% in the Indo-Pacific, and 50% on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) [9, 10]. These declines in live coral cover are accompanied by a loss in structural complexity resulting in alterations in trophic structure and reductions in ecosystem services .
The Evolution of Coral Reef under Changing Climate: A Scientometric
Research into the effects of climate change on coral reef ecosystems, with a special emphasis on the Great Barrier Reef, ranked fifth . They found that the Great Barrier Reef's 2016 record-breaking heatwave had caused widespread loss of functionally diverse corals across the reef's most remote and pristine regions.
Keeping the 'Great' in the Great Barrier Reef: large-scale governance
Louisa S. Evans, Natalie C. Ban, Michael Schoon, Mateja Nenadovic, Keeping the 'Great' in the Great Barrier Reef, International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 8, No. 2 (August 2014), pp. 396-427
eReefs : An operational information system for managing the Great
ABSTRACT. eReefs is a comprehensive interoperable information platform that has been developed for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) region to provide users with access to improved environmental intelligence allowing them to assess past, present, and future conditions, as well as management options to mitigate the risks associated with multiple and sometimes competing uses of the GBR.
Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system, but is being increasingly affected by climate change. ... Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, Oceans ...
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world's largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc. It also holds great scientific interest as the habitat of species such as the dugong ('sea cow') and ...
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef, which extends for over 2,300 kilometers (1429 miles) along the northeastern coast of Australia, is home to over 9,000 known species.There are likely many more—new discoveries are frequently being made, including a new species of branching coral discovered in 2017. This richness and uniqueness make the reef crucial for tourism and the Australian economy—it attracts ...
Long-term impacts of rising sea temperature and sea level on shallow
On the Great Barrier Reef where recovery rates from chronic stresses, that included heat stress, were compared pre- and post-2002 the ability of corals to regain cover during disturbance free ...
The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
THE GREAT Barrier Reef is a natural marvel. Spanning 2,300km along the north-east coast of Australia, this vast ecosystem boasts hundreds of species of multicoloured corals across an area roughly ...
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1. Introduction. The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the largest living structure in the world, covering an area of more than 344,000 km 2.Long and relatively narrow, the GBR extends 2300 km alongside Australia's northeast coast with its width ranging between 100 km in the north to 200 km in the south (Brodie and Pearson, 2016).The reef begins in the north at Australia's Cape York Peninsula ...
We present 10 years of data (2009-2019) on the long-term trends and sources of variation in the carbon chemistry from two fixed stations in the Australian Great Barrier Reef.
The Great Barrier Reef has migrated rapidly in response to sea-level changes since the last glacial period, suggesting resilience to environmental stress over this interval, according to a ...
In the northern, 700-km-long section of the Great Barrier Reef (from 9.5-14.5 °S), in which the heat exposure was the most extreme, 50.3% of the coral cover on reef crests was lost within eight ...
A healthy Great Barrier Reef is home to at least 1,625 species of fish. LTMP , Author provided Over the coming months, the program will be conducting more trials on the reef.
The Australian Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is one of Earth's most extraordinary natural wonders, but it is vulnerable to climate change. Ainsworth et al. have tracked the effects of three decades of increasing heat stress on coral organisms. In the past, pulses of elevated temperatures that presaged hot seasons stimulated the acclimation of coral organisms and resilience to thermal stress.
Author summary Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a large coral ecosystem consisting of more than 3,800 reefs. Coral populations inhabiting these reefs are connected by larvae that are dispersed by ocean currents. Modelling regional connectivity patterns reveals reefs that can act as prominent larval sources and supply larvae to other coral populations in the area. Coral populations on reefs ...
Geophysical Research Letters is an AGU journal publishing high-impact, ... Search for more papers by this author. Muriel Leung, ... temperature and show that OA alone has caused 13 ± 3% decline in the skeletal density of massive Porites corals on the Great Barrier Reef since 1950.
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is an iconic coral reef system extending over 2000 km along the north-east coast of Australia. Global recognition of its Outstanding Universal Value resulted in the listing of the 348 000 km 2 GBR World Heritage Area (WHA) by UNESCO in 1981. Despite various levels of national and international protection, the condition of GBR ecosystems has deteriorated over the ...
Cycles of disturbance and recovery govern the temporal dynamics of living coral cover on coral reefs. Monitoring the state of the Great Barrier Reef at regional and individual reef scales has been ongoing by the Long-Term Monitoring Program at the Australian Institute of Marine Science since 1986. After a period of relative stability between 1986 and 2010, the latest decade of surveys recorded ...
A strong driver of water quality change in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the pulsed or intermittent nature of terrestrial inputs into the GBR lagoon, including delivery of increased loads of sediments, nutrients, and toxicants via flood river plumes (hereafter river plumes) during the wet season. Cumulative pressures from extreme weather with a high frequency of large scale flooding in ...
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the world's most iconic coral reef ecosystem, recognised internationally as a World Heritage Area of outstanding significance. ... Likewise, a recent paper documenting the impact of the 2016 coral bleaching event (Hughes et al., ... Research Publication No 109, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority ...
Multi-temporal images exist for some reef locations before and after the 2016 global mass bleaching event in the Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia, Maldives, Philippines, Hawaii and Taiwan.
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem and a World Heritage site that is facing serious threats from multiple pressures, particularly climate change impacts (i.e., coral bleaching, cyclones, flood events, and ocean acidification), Crown of Thorns starfish, coastal development, and poor water quality.
Ecology is a leading journal publishing original research and synthesis papers on all aspects of ecology, with ... Two earlier mass bleaching events occurred on the Great Barrier Reef in 1998 and 2002, that were less severe than 2016. In 2016, <9% of scored reefs had no bleaching, compared to 42% in 2002 and 44% in 1998. Conversely, the ...
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has played a substantial role in knowledge sharing and development of international programs of coral reef research and management. This paper draws on that experience to provide a brief overview of the application of coral reef science in development of management for conservation and resource sustainability. 2.
Over the last 3 decades, living coral cover has declined roughly 53% in the Western Atlantic, 40% in the Indo-Pacific, and 50% on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) [9, 10]. These declines in live coral cover are accompanied by a loss in structural complexity resulting in alterations in trophic structure and reductions in ecosystem services .
Research into the effects of climate change on coral reef ecosystems, with a special emphasis on the Great Barrier Reef, ranked fifth . They found that the Great Barrier Reef's 2016 record-breaking heatwave had caused widespread loss of functionally diverse corals across the reef's most remote and pristine regions.
Louisa S. Evans, Natalie C. Ban, Michael Schoon, Mateja Nenadovic, Keeping the 'Great' in the Great Barrier Reef, International Journal of the Commons, Vol. 8, No. 2 (August 2014), pp. 396-427
ABSTRACT. eReefs is a comprehensive interoperable information platform that has been developed for the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) region to provide users with access to improved environmental intelligence allowing them to assess past, present, and future conditions, as well as management options to mitigate the risks associated with multiple and sometimes competing uses of the GBR.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest reef system, but is being increasingly affected by climate change. ... Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, Oceans ...
The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world's largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc. It also holds great scientific interest as the habitat of species such as the dugong ('sea cow') and ...
The Great Barrier Reef, which extends for over 2,300 kilometers (1429 miles) along the northeastern coast of Australia, is home to over 9,000 known species.There are likely many more—new discoveries are frequently being made, including a new species of branching coral discovered in 2017. This richness and uniqueness make the reef crucial for tourism and the Australian economy—it attracts ...
On the Great Barrier Reef where recovery rates from chronic stresses, that included heat stress, were compared pre- and post-2002 the ability of corals to regain cover during disturbance free ...
THE GREAT Barrier Reef is a natural marvel. Spanning 2,300km along the north-east coast of Australia, this vast ecosystem boasts hundreds of species of multicoloured corals across an area roughly ...