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Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular Acropora

open access: yesConservation Letters, 2021
Identifying organisms that play an important role in maintaining ecosystem function is a key aspect of resilience‐based management. For Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR), we found that the recovery ability of shallow exposed fore‐reefs is more than 14
Juan C. Ortiz   +6 more
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Illegal fishing and compliance management in marine protected areas: a situational approach

open access: yesCrime Science, 2021
Protected Areas (PAs) are spatially representative management tools that impose various levels of protection for conservation purposes. As spatially regulated places, ensuring compliance with the rules represents a key element of effective management and
Damian Weekers   +2 more
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Special Issue Overview: Advances in Remote Sensing and Mapping for Integrated Studies of Reef Ecosystems in Oceania (Great Barrier Reef and Beyond)

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
The recent widespread and recurrent coral bleaching events over the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef system on Earth and a hotspot of marine biodiversity, are a reminder of the vulnerability of reef ecosystems to human activities and a warming ...
Michelle J. Devlin   +2 more
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Predicting the location and spatial extent of submerged coral reef habitat in the Great Barrier Reef world heritage area, Australia. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
AIM: Coral reef communities occurring in deeper waters have received little research effort compared to their shallow-water counterparts, and even such basic information as their location and extent are currently unknown throughout most of the world ...
Tom Bridge   +3 more
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Great Barrier Reef [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. With contributions from international experts, this timely and fully updated second edition of The Great Barrier Reef describes the animals, plants and other organisms of the reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical ...
Hutchings, Pat   +2 more
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Epifaunal invertebrate assemblages associated with branching Pocilloporids in Moorea, French Polynesia [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2020
Reef-building corals can harbour high abundances of diverse invertebrate epifauna. Coral characteristics and environmental conditions are important drivers of community structure of coral-associated invertebrates; however, our current understanding of ...
Chiara Pisapia   +3 more
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Was the Kalkarindji Continental Flood Basalt Province a Driver of Environmental Change at the Dawn of the Phanerozoic?

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 435-447., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Peter E. Marshall   +2 more
wiley  

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Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Social Resilience within Commercial Fisheries in Northern Australia

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2007
How can we tell whether resource-dependent people are socially resilient to institutional change? This question is becoming increasingly important as demand for natural resources escalates, requiring resource managers to implement policies that are ...
Nadine A. Marshall, Paul A. Marshall
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'Reality' Fiction and the Great Barrier Reef

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2005
Di Morrrissey is one of Australia's most widely-read writers of popular fiction. Her special twist on the mode is to choose a particular setting and research it deeply, often living in the area for a time.
Stephen Torre
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