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Author : Tony Wheeler
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef written by Tony Wheeler and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Finlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780864425638
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef written by Hugh Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's natural wonders, a stunning ocean wonderland of bright corals, exotic marine life and dotted with idyllic tropical islands. Whatever your budget or the activities you want to enjoy - diving, snorkeling, hiking or just lying on the beach - this comprehensive guide will help you find your own tropical paradise.
Author : Tony Wheeler
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 9780864420312
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef written by Tony Wheeler and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 1990 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Wheeler
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 9780864422224
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef written by Tony Wheeler and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig McGregor
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Great Barrier Reef written by Craig McGregor and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1974 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the land and underwater vegetation and wildlife of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Author : Lonely Planet Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781740591560
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef 4 written by Lonely Planet Staff and published by . This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Sayre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648582113
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Australia's Coral Sea Islands & Marine Park written by Peter Sayre and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a guide to the islands and reefs of the Australian Coral Sea. This book contains 32 maps and 173 colour photos, including aerial and underwater photography. There are G.P.S. positions of reefs, anchorages, wrecks and dive sites. This information packed book also describes in detail every island, cay and reef within Australia's Coral Sea Marine Park, making it a must for every mariner wishing to explore. The description and stories of 93 shipwrecks will send your mind back to a time when ships of timber powered by the wind, were smashed upon uncharted reefs. The author has spent a lifetime exploring the forgotten islands of Australia's Coral Sea and presented it in a brilliant publication that is fully referenced, informative and entertaining.
Author : Pat Hutchings
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643099972
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Great Barrier Reef written by Pat Hutchings and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is 344 400 square kilometres in size and is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. This comprehensive guide describes the organisms and ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef, as well as the biological, chemical and physical processes that influence them. Contemporary pressing issues such as climate change, coral bleaching, coral disease and the challenges of coral reef fisheries are also discussed. In addition,the book includes a field guide that will help people to identify the common animals and plants on the reef, then to delve into the book to learn more about the roles the biota play. Beautifully illustrated and with contributions from 33 international experts, The Great Barrier Reef is a must-read for the interested reef tourist, student, researcher and environmental manager. While it has an Australian focus, it can equally be used as a baseline text for most Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Winner of a Whitley Certificate of Commendation for 2009.
Author : James Bowen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139440646
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Great Barrier Reef written by James Bowen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's natural wonders, the Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 2000 kilometres in a maze of coral reefs and islands along Australia's north-eastern coastline. Now unfolding the fascinating story behind its mystique this 2002 book provides for the first time a comprehensive cultural and ecological history of European impact, from early voyages of discovery to developments in Reef science and management. Incisive and a delight to read in its thorough account of the scientific, social and environmental consequences of European impact on the world's greatest coral reef system, this extraordinary book is sure to become a classic.
Author : Jonathan Turnbull Phinney
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
ISBN 13 : 0875903592
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Coral Reefs and Climate Change written by Jonathan Turnbull Phinney and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Coastal and Estuarine Studies, Volume 61. The effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and related climate change on shallow coral reefs are gaining considerable attention for scientific and economic reasons worldwide. Although increased scientific research has improved our understanding of the response of coral reefs to climate change, we still lack key information that can help guide reef management. Research and monitoring of coral reef ecosystems over the past few decades have documented two major threats related to increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2: (1) increased sea surface temperatures and (2) increased seawater acidity (lower pH). Higher atmospheric CO2 levels have resulted in rising sea surface temperatures and proven to be an acute threat to corals and other reef-dwelling organisms. Short periods (days) of elevated sea surface temperatures by as little as 1–2°C above the normal maximum temperature has led to more frequent and more widespread episodes of coral bleaching-the expulsion of symbiotic algae. A more chronic consequence of increasing atmospheric CO2 is the lowering of pH of surface waters, which affects the rate at which corals and other reef organisms secrete and build their calcium carbonate skeletons. Average pH of the surface ocean has already decreased by an estimated 0.1 unit since preindustrial times, and will continue to decline in concert with rising atmospheric CO2. These climate-related Stressors combined with other direct anthropogenic assaults, such as overfishing and pollution, weaken reef organisms and increase their susceptibility to disease.
Author : Dorian Moro
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 1486306624
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Australian Island Arks written by Dorian Moro and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is the custodian of a diverse range of continental and oceanic islands. From Heard and Macquarie in the sub-Antarctic, to temperate Lord Howe and Norfolk, to the tropical Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’s islands contain some of the nation’s most iconic fauna, flora and ecosystems. They are a refuge for over 35% of Australia’s threatened species and for many others declining on mainland Australia. They also have significant cultural value, especially for Indigenous communities, and economic value as centres for tourism. Australian Island Arks presents a compelling case for restoring and managing islands to conserve our natural heritage. With contributions from island practitioners, researchers and policy-makers, it reviews current island management practices and discusses the need and options for future conservation work. Chapters focus on the management of invasive species, threatened species recovery, conservation planning, Indigenous cultural values and partnerships, tourism enterprises, visitor management, and policy and legislature. Case studies show how island restoration and conservation approaches are working in Australia and what the emerging themes are for the future. Australian Island Arks will help island communities, managers, visitors and decision-makers to understand the current status of Australia’s islands, their management challenges, and the opportunities that exist to make best use of these iconic landscapes.
Author : Ben Daley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113593441X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Great Barrier Reef written by Ben Daley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine park. This book provides an original account of the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history research. It documents and explains the main human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef since European settlement in the region, focusing particularly on the century from 1860 to 1960 which has not previously been fully documented, yet which was a period of unprecedented exploitation of the ecosystem and its resources. The book describes the main changes in coral reefs, islands and marine wildlife that resulted from those impacts. In more recent decades, human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef have spread, accelerated and intensified, with implications for current management and conservation practices. There is now better scientific understanding of the threats faced by the ecosystem. Yet these modern challenges occur against a background of historical levels of exploitation that is little-known, and that has reduced the ecosystem's resilience. The author provides a compelling narrative of how one of the world's most iconic and vulnerable ecosystems has been exploited and degraded, but also how some early conservation practices emerged.
Author : Julie G. Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Nudibranchs of Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef written by Julie G. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erinn Banting
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1791108482
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Great Barrier Reef written by Erinn Banting and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacular Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef in the world. There are more than 10,000 different species of animals living within it. Discover more in The Great Barrier Reef, one of the titles in the Natural Wonders of the World series.
Author : Lester Robert Glen Cannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Exploring Australia's Great Barrier Reef written by Lester Robert Glen Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nico Medina
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399541896
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Where Is the Great Barrier Reef? written by Nico Medina and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Where Is? title, kids can explore the Great Barrier Reef—big enough to be seen from space but made up of billions of tiny living organisms. The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Australia, is the world's largest coral reef system. Stretching more than 1,400 miles, it provides a home to a wide diversity of creatures. Designated a World Heritage Site, the reef is suffering from the effects of climate change but this fascinating book shows this spectacular part of our planet.
Author : William Saville-Kent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Great Barrier Reef of Australia written by William Saville-Kent and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
