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A crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) control program at Grub...
A crown-of-thorns starfish control program was conducted on Grub Reef, a mid-shelf, lagoonal reef in the central Great Barrier Reef. The control site was located on the leeward,... -
Fish and benthic biodiversity at the Point Murat Navy Pier, Exmouth Gulf,...
Fish and benthic surveys were carried out within the environs of the Navy Pier at Exmouth from 9-11 March 1996 and 2-6 April 2001. The benthic community of the pier, dolphins... -
Great Barrier Reef Marine Monitoring Program - Coral (MMP)
Monitoring has been carried out on inshore reefs since 2005. Benthic community monitoring program variables: Ongoing: percent cover of benthic organisms nominally to genus level... -
Nutrient data from rivers discharging into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon
Nutrient data was obtained from the lower reaches and estuaries of 23 rivers discharging into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. Wet season time series were measured in five rivers... -
The role of coral interactions in maintaining unoccupied substrate in the...
Prior to commencement of the main study, samples of "unoccupied" substrate were collected from less than 2 cm and from greater than 10 cm distant from coral colonies at a depth... -
Real-time monitoring of upper ocean variability in the Australian region of...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2519 See the link below for public details on this project. This dataset comprises of floating buoy data collected as part of the ARGO... -
Ingestion of ultraplankton by the planktonic larvae of the crown-of-thorns...
Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) larvae, from the mass rearing facility at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, were sorted and 600-800 late bipinnaria and early and late... -
The effect of thyroxine on larval development of the crown-of-thorns...
Three experiments were carried out with laboratory reared Acanthaster planci larvae. In all experiments larvae were transferred to culture dishes containing 80 ml of artificial... -
Hydrocarbons in surface sediments from the north Queensland coast and Great...
Reef sediments were collected from the lagoons of Feather Reef, Gilby Reef and Potter Reef on 7-8 February 1986, about 5 days after Cyclone Winifred had passed through the... -
Benthic cover data from the Galeta Island reef flat, Panama
Six parallel transects, located 2 m apart were surveyed offshore from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute laboratory on Galeta Island, Panama.Transects consisted of a... -
Coral communities at Scott Reef and Rowley Shoals, Western Australia
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... -
Tidal export of particulate organic matter from Coral Creek, Hinchinbrook...
Water sampling was carried out at the channel mouth of Coral Creek, Missionary Bay, Hinchinbrook Island to determine the transport and exchange of carbon and nitrogen in... -
Effects of commercial net fishing in mangrove estuaries in north Queensland...
Three pairs of river systems in north Queensland were chosen for fish sampling. Each pair was comprised of one river open to commercial net fishing and one which had been closed... -
Sponge species distribution and biomass surveys across the northern and...
Surveys were conducted on the fore-reef slopes (proximal to the major wind and wave inputs) of 2 inner shelf reefs (Pandora Reef and Philips Reef), 4 middle shelf reefs (Rib... -
Survival rates of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) at...
Predator exclusion experiments, using laboratory reared juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci), were carried out in an area of dead coral rubble on the leeward... -
Variation in tissue thickness in massive Porites corals from the Great Barrier Reef
Measurements were obtained from existing samples of Porites colonies held in the collections at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, and from small colonies collected... -
Variation in assemblages of Lutjanidae and Lethrinidae among mid-continental...
Surveys of fish in the families Lutjanidae and Lethrinidae were carried out on three midshelf reefs (Rib Reef, John Brewer Reef and Lodestone Reef) in the central Great Barrier... -
Herbivory and zonation of Sargassum spp. within fringing reefs of the...
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... -
Mangrove zooplankton community structure and copepod egg production in North...
Plankton community composition studies were carried out of the mangrove environments of the Haughton River and in the northern rivers of Queensland (Daintree, McIvor, Lockhart,... -
Variation in the size and abundance of the dictyocerid sponge, Coscinoderma...
Abundance and size of the sponge Coscinoderma matthewsi was surveyed at 5 island groups in November 2006: Ugar (Stephen Island) and Erub (Darnley Island) in eastern Torres...