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 ...
Here we document the evolution of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the world's largest reef system, to major, abrupt environmental changes over the past 30 thousand years based on comprehensive ...
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.
The exposure of the Great Barrier Reef to ocean acidification
The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is founded on reef-building corals. ... Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuval, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ...
Ocean Acidification Has Impacted Coral Growth on the Great Barrier Reef
Here we compile existing and new skeletal growth records of 95 Porites corals from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) (De'ath et al., 2009), South China Sea (SCS) (Su et al., 2016), and the central Pacific Ocean (CPO) spanning the time period of 1871 to 2014 (section 2; Figure S1 in the supporting information) and use a coral skeletal growth model to ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
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.
The coral conservation crisis: interacting local and global ...
Coral reefs are one of the most productive and biodiverse ecosystems in the world. Humans rely on these coral reef ecosystems to provide significant ecological and economic resources; however, coral reefs are threatened by numerous local and global anthropogenic factors that cause significant environmental change. The interactions of these local and global human impacts may increase the rate ...
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.
Ecosystem‐based management of coral reefs under climate change
Such storms can cause devastating damage to coral reefs, for example accounting for 42% of the coral loss in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) from 1985 to 2012 (De'ath, Fabricius, Sweatman, ... While local managers cannot address the global impacts of ocean warming and acidification, research has sought to provide ways to mitigate against them.
New science could save dying coral reefs, in the Great Barrier Reef and
Parts of Opal Reef, a popular dive tourism site and one of more than 2,900 individual reefs that make up the Great Barrier Reef system, suffered catastrophic mortality during the recent bleaching.
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 ...
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 ...
Refining fine sediment source identification through ...
Excess fine sediment delivery is a major contributor to the declining health of the Great Barrier Reef and identifying the dominant source areas of fine sediment has been critical to prioritising erosion remediation programs. The Bowen River catchment within the Burdekin Basin has been recognised as a major contributor and hence received considerable research investment over the last two decades.
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 ...
Water quality mediates resilience on the Great Barrier Reef
Cheal, A. J. et al. Coral--macroalgal phase shifts or reef resilience: links with diversity and functional roles of herbivorous fishes on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 29 , 1005-1015 (2010).
Solar-powered floating islands could help to regrow coral reefs
A cluster of floating, solar-powered islands could be used to support coral reef restoration efforts in coastal waters, a team of researchers has proposed.. It is possible to accelerate the ...
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 ...
Florida's Coral Reef
Coral reefs lay the foundation of a dynamic ecosystem with tremendous biodiversity. Florida's Coral Reef stretches approximately 350 linear miles from Dry Tortugas National Park west of the Florida Keys to the St. Lucie Inlet in Martin County. Roughly two-thirds of Florida's Coral Reef lies within Biscayne National Park and the Florida Keys ...
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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.
Here we document the evolution of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the world's largest reef system, to major, abrupt environmental changes over the past 30 thousand years based on comprehensive ...
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 Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is founded on reef-building corals. ... Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuval, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ...
Here we compile existing and new skeletal growth records of 95 Porites corals from the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) (De'ath et al., 2009), South China Sea (SCS) (Su et al., 2016), and the central Pacific Ocean (CPO) spanning the time period of 1871 to 2014 (section 2; Figure S1 in the supporting information) and use a coral skeletal growth model to ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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) 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 ...
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.
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
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.
Coral reefs are one of the most productive and biodiverse ecosystems in the world. Humans rely on these coral reef ecosystems to provide significant ecological and economic resources; however, coral reefs are threatened by numerous local and global anthropogenic factors that cause significant environmental change. The interactions of these local and global human impacts may increase the rate ...
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.
Such storms can cause devastating damage to coral reefs, for example accounting for 42% of the coral loss in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) from 1985 to 2012 (De'ath, Fabricius, Sweatman, ... While local managers cannot address the global impacts of ocean warming and acidification, research has sought to provide ways to mitigate against them.
Parts of Opal Reef, a popular dive tourism site and one of more than 2,900 individual reefs that make up the Great Barrier Reef system, suffered catastrophic mortality during the recent bleaching.
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 ...
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 ...
Excess fine sediment delivery is a major contributor to the declining health of the Great Barrier Reef and identifying the dominant source areas of fine sediment has been critical to prioritising erosion remediation programs. The Bowen River catchment within the Burdekin Basin has been recognised as a major contributor and hence received considerable research investment over the last two decades.
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 ...
Cheal, A. J. et al. Coral--macroalgal phase shifts or reef resilience: links with diversity and functional roles of herbivorous fishes on the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 29 , 1005-1015 (2010).
A cluster of floating, solar-powered islands could be used to support coral reef restoration efforts in coastal waters, a team of researchers has proposed.. It is possible to accelerate the ...
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 ...
Coral reefs lay the foundation of a dynamic ecosystem with tremendous biodiversity. Florida's Coral Reef stretches approximately 350 linear miles from Dry Tortugas National Park west of the Florida Keys to the St. Lucie Inlet in Martin County. Roughly two-thirds of Florida's Coral Reef lies within Biscayne National Park and the Florida Keys ...