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Author : Great Barrier Reef Committee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Committee written by Great Barrier Reef Committee and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Barrier Reef committee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Committee. V. 1-6; July 1925-1956 written by Great Barrier Reef committee and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting written by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Society of New Zealand
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1026 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings written by Royal Society of New Zealand and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Society of New Zealand
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Transactions written by Royal Society of New Zealand and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : David Russell Lawrence
Publisher : Melbourne University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Great Barrier Reef written by David Russell Lawrence and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of the history and management of the world's largest marine park and first marine-based World Heritage area, the Great Barrier Reef. Traces the park's history from its inception during the environmental activism of the 60s and 70s, through its recognition as a World Heritage site, to the current operations of the Marine Park Authority. Includes discussion of the past and current issues that affect the area such as development, fishing, native title, water quality and the explosion in tourism. Includes colour photos, references and index. Lawrence is an anthropologist who has managed environmental projects with the Marine Park authority. Kenchington, who is a marine scientist, and Woodley, a geographer, were part of the team that established the current GBRMP zoning and management plan.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. W. G. Carter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521598903
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Coastal Evolution written by R. W. G. Carter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1995 review of how shorelines have changed since the last Ice Age, and what this implies for future environmental management.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings of member institutes of the Society and of the Society's Science Congress.
Author : Jan Sapp
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ISBN 13 : 9780195161786
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (617 download)
Download or read book What is Natural? written by Jan Sapp and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1960s and 1970s, massive herds of poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish suddenly began to infest coral reef communities around the world, leaving in their wake devastation comparable to a burnt-out rainforest. In What is Natural?, Jan Sapp both examines this ecological catastrophe and captures the intense debate among scientists about what caused the crisis, and how it should be handled. The crown-of-thorns story takes readers on tropical expeditions around the world, and into both marine laboratories and government committees, where scientists rigorously search for answers to the many profound questions surrounding this event. Were these fierce starfish outbreaks the kind of manmade disaster heralded by such environmentalists as Rachel Carson in Silent Spring? Indeed, discussions of the cause of the starfish plagues have involved virtually every environmental issue of our time--over-fishing, pesticide use, atomic testing, rain forest depletion, and over-population--but many marine biologists maintain that the epidemic is a natural feature of coral-reef life, and ecological "balance of nature" that should not be tampered with until we know the scientific truth of the crisis. But should we search for the scientific truth before taking action? And what if an environmental emergency cannot wait for a rigorous scientific search for "the truth"? The starfish plagues are arguably one of most mysterious ecological phenomena of this century. Through the window of this singular event, What is Natural lucidly illustrates the complexity of environmental issues while probing the most fundamental questions about the relationship between man and nature.
Author : Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, Weekly Hansard written by Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Bowen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319074792
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Coral Reef Era: From Discovery to Decline written by James Bowen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 4 June 1629, the Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company Fleet, was wrecked on her maiden voyage in a seemingly empty expanse of the Indian Ocean. The question “how did this happen?” led to 300 years of investigation by those curious to solve the enigma: what are corals and how are coral reefs formed?. Relying heavily on primary source material Part 1 traces the sequential evolution of scientific thought and practice as the author explores the way this evolution is reflected in the search for understanding corals. At each stage, answers lead to fresh questions that challenge investigators to solve the riddle and new branches of science emerge. Then, with the first enigma finally understood, a new enigma arose. Why are Reefs dying? Part 2 traces the range of problems that have emerged in the past 50 years as marine, ecological, reef and climate scientists attempt to put the pieces of the jigsaw together. Is there a new “canary in the coal mine” warning of the fate of the world as we know it if man’s impact on his environment continues unchecked?.
Author : G. F. Camoin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444304887
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Reefs and Carbonate Platforms in the Pacific and Indian Oceans written by G. F. Camoin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IAS Special Publication #27 contains 17 of the papers presented at the IAS International Workshop on Reefs and Carbonate platforms in the Pacific and Indian oceans held in Sydney (July 1995). This is the first book to summarize the current state of knowledge about reefs and carbonate platforms in these oceans, where there is a great diversity of carbonate systems in various tectonic settings. Papers concern both processes operating in reefs and carbonate platforms and case histories (platform and oceanic reef case histories). Case histories range from the Lower Cretaceous to modern reefs and most fossil carbonate platforms concern outcomes from recent ODP legs in the Pacific. The book covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to carbonate geology: sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, reef ecology and modeling. If you are a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists, for purchasing details, please see: http://www.iasnet.org/publications/details.asp?code=SP25
