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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... -
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... -
The role of nitrate in nitrogen nutrition of the mangrove Avicennia marina...
Seedlings of the mangrove, Avicennia marina, were used in two nitrogen nutrition experiments, carried out at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in a shadehouse, where... -
Identification of carotenoids in four species of copepods from the Great Barrier Reef
The main carotenoids of four species of copepods found in the Great Barrier Reef were separated by chromatographic techniques including reversed-phase HPLC and identified using... -
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... -
Preliminary survey of the Keep River, Northern Territory
A survey of the Keep River, Northern Terrritory was undertaken on the 17th and 18th October 2001. On the first day, 5 CTD casts were done between 0935 and 1150 hrs at the... -
Reconstruction of Burdekin River runoff from fluorescent bands in massive...
Coral cores, 90 mm in diameter, were collected from two inshore reefs on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. One core was collected from a 4.0m high colony of P. Lutea on Pandora... -
Estimating early life history parameters for the tropical clupeid,...
Fish larvae were collected weekly from the Breakwater Marina, Townsville between August and November 1987. Sampling was conducted at night using three fluorescent lamps sealed... -
Calculating larval growth rates from presettlement reef fish collected with...
Light traps were used to collect presettlement fish from Keeper Reef, a midshelf reef and Myrmidon Reef, an outershelf reef on the Great Barrier Reef during the summers of... -
Environmentally induced variation in diterpene composition of the sponge...
In February 1983, fragments of approximately 50 ml volume were cut in situ from the dorsal surface region (<2 cm) of a single specimen of Rhopaloeides odorabile at Davies... -
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... -
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... -
Natural growth, population dynamics and optimal harvest regime for...
At Kodall North and Masig North, adjacent to the farming studies, four 5 x 5 m permanent quadrats were set up at a depth of 10-12 m. Kodall North and Masig North are... -
Space as a resource for predatory gastropods on Heron Island Reef, Great Barrier Reef
Data on worm-eating gastropod microhabitat use and abundance within microhabitats were collected along transects located on the Heron Island Reef crest between November 1975 and... -
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... -
Patterns in the distribution of soft corals across the central Great Barrier Reef
Surveys of soft corals were conducted on 11 inner-shelf, mid-shelf, outer-shelf and Coral Sea reefs between November 1980 and November 1981. The reefs surveyed were Havannah... -
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... -
Formation of functional coral clones through natural embryo fragmentation of...
Acropora millepora colonies were collected from Trunk Reef in early December 2009 and maintained in the aquarium system at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Eggs from... -
Competition between alcyonacean and scleractinian corals at Britomart Reef,...
Experiments were performed on Britomart Reef in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef, in a large depression behind the reef crest, 50-60 m in diameter and 11 m deep,...