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Reef HQ Great Barrier Reef Aquarium is the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's (GBRMPA) national education centre for the Great Barrier Reef and is the world's largest living coral reef aquarium.
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A changing climate for the seabirds and shorebirds of the Great Barrier Reef [PDF]
The Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009 identifies seabirds as being highly vulnerable to the potential consequences of climate change. Under the Great Barrier Reef Climate Change Action Plan 2007-2012, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority ...
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ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson +9 more
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Pesticide monitoring in inshore waters of the Great Barrier Reef using both time-integrated and event monitoring techniques (2013-2014) [PDF]
The report details pesticide monitoring activities carried out utilising a combination of passive sampling and grab sampling techniques in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park as part of the Reef Rescue Marine Monitoring Program (MMP).
Devlin, M. +4 more
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The impacts of biological invasions
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock +42 more
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Reef facts for tour guides: climate change and the Great Barrier Reef [PDF]
The Reef Facts for Tour Guides fact sheet series aims to ensure accurate, up-to-date information in an easy-to-read format that is readily available to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park tourism industry.
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An Overview of Tsunami Hazards in the Southwest Pacific Ocean
The southwest Pacific region is geologically complex and exhibits all the principal causes of tsunami generation. While contemporary events and historical catalogs indicate that trans‐Pacific tsunamis have affected this area (∼18% of tsunamis reported globally), it is unique in that a large part of the tsunami effects over the ∼200‐year historical ...
Jean H. M. Roger +13 more
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Tourism Operator Emissions Calculator [PDF]
Awareness of the impacts of climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is growing within the tourism industry. A free, user-friendly emissions calculator has been developed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) to ...
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ABSTRACT Microplastic (MP) pollution represents a growing environmental challenge, especially in tropical and subtropical coastal regions of the Global South, where methodological fragmentation, funding discontinuity, and dependence on external analytical infrastructure limit the production of comparable data and the formulation of evidence‐based ...
Guilherme Malafaia +1 more
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Australia’s Two Great Barrier Reefs: What Can ~360 Million Years of Change Teach Us?
Coral reefs are among the most important marine habitats but face significant threats from anthropogenic sources, including climate change. This paper reviews and compares the modern Great Barrier Reef Province and the 360-million-year-old Devonian Great
Gregory E. Webb
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