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Data: The roles of sea-ice, light and sedimentation in structuring shallow...
Data repository for the paper: "The roles of sea-ice, light and sedimentation in structuring shallow Antarctic benthic communities" Graeme F. Clark, Jonathan S. Stark, Anne S.... -
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Australian Beach Safety and Management Database Program (ABSAMP)
The database contains geographical and physical information about all the Australian open coast beaches, as well as some of the larger bays around the coastline. The database is... -
Surveys of Octocoral communities, benthic cover and environmental factors on...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
All surveys were carried out by the principal researcher using Rapid Ecological Assessment. The dataset comprises 41 sites. Each site was surveyed with up to 5 transects... -
Surveys of Octocoral communities, benthic cover and environmental factors on...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
All surveys were carried out by the principal researcher using Rapid Ecological Assessment. The dataset comprises 41 surveys from 21 reef locations, recording 42 species in 23... -
Coral growth characteristics of massive Porites, Misima Island, Papua New Guinea
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Colonies of massive Porites corals were collected in March 1994 from 10 transects established by Natural Systems Research (NSR) Environmental Consultants on the fringing reefs... -
Sedimentation stress in a scleractinian coral exposed to terrestrial and...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Corals were exposed to 10 different sediment types at varying concentrations (33, 66, 100 and 133 mg DW cm-²) and exposure times (12, 20, 36, 44, 60 h) in laboratory and field... -
Surveys of Octocoral communities, benthic cover and environmental factors on...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
All surveys were carried out by the principal researcher using Rapid Ecological Assessment. The dataset runs from May 1996: in early 2009 comprising 1636 entries from 180 reef... -
Photophysiological stress in response to short-term sedimentation in...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Effects of short-term sedimentation on common coastal coral species were investigated in laboratory and field experiments on the Great Barrier Reef using pulse-amplitude... -
Seasonal rainfall and runoff promote coral disease on Magnetic Island...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Sites used for this study of the coral disease atramentous necrosis (AN) were located in two adjacent bays, Nelly Bay and Geoffrey Bay, on the south-eastern side of Magnetic... -
Surveys of Octocoral communities, benthic cover and environmental factors on...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
All surveys were carried out by the principal researcher using Rapid Ecological Assessment. The dataset comprises 33 entries from 7 reef locations. On each reef 1-3 sites were... -
Timor Sea sediment core and surface sediment grab sample data (Western...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
This dataset contains location data for surface sediment samples and cores from the Timor Sea, collected between November 1996 and June 2005. Associated datasets contain... -
Changes in coral reef communities along a gradient of river discharge,...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Change to coral communities along a gradient of increasing exposure to a mud-discharging river in the Enipein Catchment, Pohnpei, Micronesia were quantified by the two principal... -
Salinity tolerance, burrowing behaviour and pedicle regeneration in the...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Lingula anatina were collected from the intertidal sand flat at Shelly Beach, near Townsville and transported to the laboratory at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in... -
Perturbation of persistent foraminiferal assemblages by elevated land runoff...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
A total of 11 sediment cores were collected from inshore fringing reefs adjacent to 7 islands in the Whitsunday Islands Group, Queensland. The cores were collected from three... -
Fine sediment dynamics on the inner shelf of the Great Barrier Reef during a flood
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Fine sediment dynamics were recorded in coastal waters of the Great Barrier Reef during a moderate flood of the Tully River in February 2007 (in the wet season). The area... -
Environmental factors associated with the spatial distribution of crustose...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Between May 1996 and September 1999 the percentage cover of crustose coralline algae and environmental conditions were visually estimated on 144 reefs. On each reef, 2 sites... -
Surveys of octocorals in the Rowley Shoals Marine Park and the Mermaid Reef...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Octocoral biodiversity was surveyed at eighteen sites across all three Rowley Shoals (Mermaid, Clerke and Imperieuse Reefs). At each site, transects commenced at ~20m depth and... -
Surveys of Octocoral communities, benthic cover and environmental factors on...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
All surveys were carried out by the principal researcher using Rapid Ecological Assessment. The dataset comprises 58 surveys from 10 reefs. On each reef 1-3 sites were surveyed... -
Effects of a sediment plume on a coral reef, Palau, Micronesia
Australian Institute of Marine Science
The effects of a sediment plume and sedimentation damage on diverse coral reefs off the Diongradid watershed in Ngardmau, Palau, Micronesia, in October 2005 were documented.... -
Fine sediment budget on an inner shelf island of the Great Barrier Reef
Australian Institute of Marine Science
The deposition and removal budget of fine sediments on the windward and leeward sides of an inner-shelf coral-fringed island (High Island) of the central Great Barrier Reef was...