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Quantitative fish and benthic community surveys of the reefs of Malakula...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Replicate line and belt transects of various sizes were used to estimate densities of several groups of marine organisms around Malakula and associated islands in Vanuatu in... -
Response of herbivorous fish to crown-of-thorns-starfish, Acanthaster...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Three adjacent pairs of reefs, located in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef were chosen for this study. One reef of each pair had been impacted by a crown-of-thorns... -
Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Calamianes Islands, Palawan...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals were identified at 38 sites in the Calamianes Islands, Palawan Province, Philippines in 1998, using rapid assessment methods. Sites surveyed... -
Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) of scleractinian coral diversity on...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals were surveyed at 66 sites in the Solomon Islands in 2004, using "Rapid Ecological Assessment" (REA) methods. Surveys were conducted using... -
Polyp bail-out in the scleractinian coral, Seriatopora hystrix, from the...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Colonies of the coral, Seriatopora hystrix, were collected monthly from Britomart Reef and Davies Reef between November 1979 and June 1981 for a study of seasonality in... -
Checklist of corals from the Daintree Reefs, Great Barrier Reef
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Scleractinian corals were recorded from the fringing reefs offshore from the Daintree National Park during a three day study in November 1985. The field study was supplemented... -
Effects of irradiance, flow, and colony pigmentation on the temperature...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
The study consisted of laboratory and field components. Under laboratory conditions, the temperature of standardized individual color chart fields submerged in seawater was... -
Surveys to locate juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) on...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
In 1989, reefs in the central GBR were surveyed to locate high density populations of larger (5-15 cm) juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci). Preliminary... -
Growth increments in otoliths of two species of damselfish from the southern...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Two species of damselfish, Pomacentrus mollucensis and Pomacentrus wardi, from the One Tree Reef lagoon on the southern Great Barrier Reef, were examined to assess determination... -
Competition between corals and algal turf along a water quality gradient in...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
The three sites chosen to study competition between algal turfs and coral were located on the reef slope of the fringing reefs at Goold Island, and Coolgaree Bay and Cannon Bay... -
Zooplankton, planktivorous fish and currents at Davies Reef, Great Barrier Reef
Australian Institute of Marine Science
On each sampling date (10-18 August, 10-18 September, 1-9 November, 1-4 December 1976, and 18-23 May 1977) during the 2-3 h of peak flow of the ebb and flood tides, fine-scale... -
The influence of recruitment and post-settlement mortality on coral...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Pandora Reef, Rib Reef and Myrmidon Reef, located 16.6 km, 57.6 km and 116.9 km from the coastline respectively, were chosen for a year long series of cross-shelf coral... -
Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) and coral cover surveys of the...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
The distribution and abundance of the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) and the cover of living and dead coral were investigated at 29 sites around 13 islands of... -
Identity and diversity of zooxanthellae, Palau, Micronesia
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Four to five transects were video recorded at both 3 and 10 m depths at the 3 reefs (Oikull Reef, a platform reef; Taoch Bay, a fringing reef; and 'Heliofungia Lake', a karst... -
Rapid Ecological Assessment (REA) of coral biodiversity and reef health in...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Fringing reefs at 19 locations in the Tigak Islands and 17 locations around Manus Island in the northern Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea were surveyed in August/September 2006.... -
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... -
Status of near shore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef 2004 (CRC Reef Research...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
The benthic communities at 33 near shore reefs between Cape Tribulation (16°S) and Keppel Is (23°S) were surveyed in 2004. Prospective near-shore coral reef sampling locations... -
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... -
Spatial and structural patterns of benthic communities on reefs of the...
Australian Institute of Marine Science
Surveys of benthic communities were carried out at Davies Reef, a mid-shelf reef, and Myrmidon Reef, an outer-shelf reef in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef. On each...