Results 11 to 20 of about 5,458 (205)

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
openaire   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

New constraints on the postglacial shallow-water carbonate accumulation in the Great Barrier Reef

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
More accurate global volumetric estimations of shallow-water reef deposits are needed to better inform climate and carbon cycle models. Using recently acquired datasets and International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 325 cores, we calculated ...
Gustavo Hinestrosa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scientific Frontiers in the Management of Coral Reefs

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2015
Coral reefs are subjected globally to a variety of natural and anthropogenic stressors that often act synergistically. Today, reversing ongoing and future coral reef degradation presents significant challenges and countering this negative trend will take
Shankar eAswani   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

'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
doaj   +3 more sources

The ReFuGe 2020 consortium - Using ‘omics’ approaches to explore the adaptability and resilience of coral holobionts to environmental change

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2015
Human-induced environmental changes have been linked directly with loss of biodiversity. Coral reefs, which have been severely impacted by anthropogenic activities over the last few decades, exemplify this global problem and provide an opportunity to ...
Christian Robert Voolstra   +25 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Great Barrier Reef of Australia [PDF]

open access: yesScottish Geographical Magazine, 1893
n ...
W. M. Davis   +2 more
  +4 more sources

Virtual Reef Diver: Enabling People to Help Protect the Great Barrier Reef

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2023
Two Sustainable Development Goals are focused directly on combating the impacts of climate change on coral reef communities: Goal 13, Climate Action (Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts) and Goal 14, Life Below Water (Conserve and
Julie Vercelloni   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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  

+2 more sources

Literary Representations of The Great Barrier Reef

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2008
In 1626 Samuel Purchas published an anthology of travel stories which included an account by François Pyrard de Laval of his shipwreck on a coral reef in the Maldives for 5 years in the first decade of the seventeenth century.
Stephen Torre
doaj   +3 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy