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AIMS Long-term Monitoring Program: Agents of coral mortality (Great Barrier Reef)
Australian Institute of Marine Science
In 6 sectors of the Great Barrier Reef (Cooktown/Lizard island, Cairns, Townsville, Whitsunday, Swain and Capricorn Bunker) 49 of the key manta tow reefs are designated 'core'... -
Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) of coral diversity and the status of coral...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Coral reefs at 51 locations in the Raja Ampat Islands, Papua Province, Indonesia were surveyed in October/November 2002. At 43 of the locations, sites were surveyed at two... -
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... -
Baseline coral and benthic cover surveys of Keppel Islands reefs, Great...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
A total of 20 survey sites were chosen using a combination of high resolution aerial photographs and local knowledge, to ensure that all significant reef systems in the central... -
Surveys of benthic habitats and zonation in Florence Bay, Magnetic Island,...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
In April 1989, the marine habitat at Florence Bay, Magnetic Island was surveyed. Initially, manta tows (a snorkeller towed slowly behind a small boat) were made to provide an... -
Surveys of reef-building coral communities, benthic cover and environmental...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Species richness, cover and community structure of reef-building corals were assessed at 599 sites on 135 reefs along the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) between 1994 and 2001, with a... -
Growth increments in otoliths of Pomacentrus mollucensis from the Great Barrier Reef
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Individuals of Pomacentrus mollucensis were collected from the lagoon of John Brewer Reef on the central Great Barrier Reef between March 1988 and February 1989 and their... -
Surveys of four coral reefs in Mauritius
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Surveys of 4 coral reefs (Balaclava, Blue Bay, Point du Diable, Trou aux Biches) were carried out as part of a UNESCO/COMARAF training workshop on coral taxonomy and management... -
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... -
Hermatypic corals of Vanuatu
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Hermatypic coral communities on the coral reefs of Vanuatu were examined at 22 locations, covering a wide range of environments along the length of the island arc, in 1988. The... -
Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of northwestern Madagascar (Marine RAP survey)
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals were surveyed at 29 sites in north west Madagascar in 2002, using rapid assessment methods. Surveys were conducted using SCUBA to a maximum... -
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... -
Assessment of coral reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef and the Coral...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
The benthic cover on reefs from the central Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea was surveyed between 1984 and 1985, using the line transect technique. The reefs surveyed were 2... -
Effects of fish grazing and damselfish territoriality on algal community...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
In November 1979, settlement plates made from the coral Pachyseris speciosa, a suitable substratum for algal settlement, were deployed under a series of experimental conditions... -
Coral communities at Scott Reef and Rowley Shoals, Western Australia
Australian Institute of Marine Science
In August/September 1993, surveys of coral community composition and structure were carried out at Scott Reefs (North Scott Reef and South Scott Reef) and two reefs in the... -
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... -
Shallow water fish surveys of the coral reefs of Vanuatu
Australian Institute of Marine Science
The shallow water (<30m) fish communities on the coral reefs of Vanuatu were examined at 23 locations along the 800km length of the country in 1988. Fish communities were... -
Nutrient excretion by the coral reef holothurians, Stichopus chloronotus and...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Excretion experiments were conducted at the Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef with the common holothurians Stichopus chloronotus and Holothuria atra,... -
Herbivory and zonation of Sargassum spp. within fringing reefs of the...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
A series of transplant and caging experiments, using the macroalgae Sargassum spp., were carried out in Coolgaree (Challenger) Bay, Great Palm Island and Brook Island between... -
Bleaching of coral communities on nearshore reefs of the central Great...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
The nearshore reefs, Brook Islands Reef (2 sites), Iris Point Reef at Orpheus Island (1 site) and Pandora Reef (4 sites) were surveyed using swim survey and video techniques in...