356 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
Type:
Books
Place:
Australia
Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
Date:
2001
C2001
Contents:
The place of science and technology in the wise management of the Great Barrier Reef / Joe Baker -- Physics-biology links in the Great Barrier Reef / Eric Wolanski -- Landcover and water quality in river catchments of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park / Andrew K.L. Johnson, Robert G. V. Bramley, Christian H. Roth -- Runoff of terrestrial sediment and nutrients into the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area / Miles Furnas, Alan Mitchell -- Water circulation in mangroves, and its implications for biodiversity / Eric Wolanski, Yoshihiro Mazda, Keita Furukawa, Peter Ridd, Johnson Kitheka, Simon Spagnol, Thomas Steiglitz -- Muddy coastal waters and depleted mangrove coastlines - Depleted seagrass and coral reefs / Norman C. Duke, Eric Wolanski -- The effects of siltation on tropical coastal ecosystems / Miguel Fortes -- Modelling and visualising interactions between natural disturbances and eutrophication as causes of coral reef degradation / Laurence J. McCook, Eric Wolanski, Simon Spagnol -- Biodiversity on the Great Barrier Reef: large-scale patterns and turbidity-related local loss of soft coral taxa / Katharina Fabricius, Glenn De'ath -- River plume dynamics in the central Great Barrier Reef / Brian King, Felicity McAllister, Eric Wolanski, Terry Done, Simon Spagnol -- Connectivity in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - an overview of pathways and processes / Mike Cappo, Russell Kelley -- A model of the ecosystem, and associated penaeid prawn community, in the far northern Great Barrier Reef / Neil A. Gribble
-- The effects of water flow around coral reefs on the distribution of pre-settlement fish (Great Barrier Reef, Australia) / John H. Carleton, Richard Brinkman, Peter J. Doherty -- Topographic steering by coral reef assemblages / Simon Spagnol, Eric Wolanski, Eric Deleersnjider -- Environmental factors influencing the activity of black marlin / Peter Speare, Craig R. Steinberg -- Ocean nutrients to sediment banks via tidal jets and Halimeda meadows / Edward A. Drew -- Climate variability and change on the Great Barrier Reef / Janice M. Lough -- The sea surface temperature story on the Great Barrier Reef during the coral bleaching event of 1998 / William Skirving, John Guinotte -- The challenges of coral reef management in Indonesia / Ian M. Dutton, Dietrich G. Bengen, J. Johnnes Tulungen -- Will the Great Barrier Reef survive human impact? / Frank H. Talbot
