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Reef field guide launched
The first comprehensive field guide to the Great Barrier Reef will be launched by UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Greenfield at Customs House tomorrow (10am, Thursday, November 27).
UQ’s Centre for Marine Studies Director and 2008 Smart State Premier’s Fellow Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, said The Great Barrier Reef (CSIRO Publishing, $89.95) provided readers with a broad overview of the biological and physical attributes of the reef and where relevant, other reefs around the world.
The Great Barrier Reef is one of Australia’s most recognised natural icons.
“It is also the largest continuous reef system on the planet and can be seen from space by passing satellites,” he said.
“By understanding it better through resources like this book, we stand a better chance of preserving this wondrous ecosystem for all time.”
All royalties received from sales of the book will go to the Australian Coral Reef Society to fund student research on the reef.
The book has been edited by Australian Museum Senior Principal Research Scientist Dr Pat Hutchings, Head of the School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture at James Cook University, Professor Michael Kingsford, and Professor Hoegh-Guldberg.
The three researchers have contributed articles to the 368-page book
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Marine and Freshwater Research
Volume 69 Number 7 2018
Tropical Aquatic Ecosystems of the Kakadu Region (Northern Australia): Past, Present and Future
This paper provides an introduction to the ecological features that characterise the wetlands of the Kakadu region in tropical northern Australia, including gaps in the understanding of the ecosystem services they provide, and a comment on the emergence of novel ecosystems as a consequence of global change, in particular sea-level rise and an anticipated transition of freshwater wetlands to saline conditions.
Sediment fluxes and sinks based on total sediment load for Magela Creek in the Australian wet–dry tropics have been constructed from detailed measurements of turbidity, suspended sand and bedload for the 10-year period from 2001–2002 to 2010–2011. The present work showed that the sediment-trap efficiency of the vegetated wetlands on lower Magela is high at ~89.5%.
Mangroves in Kakadu National Park in Australia’s Northern Territory have undergone significant changes, occupying much of the lowlands c. 6000 years ago, but are now confined to the river margins and islands. Recent observations from satellite and aircraft have indicated that fluctuations in sea level exert a signific
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Kelpie: generating full-length ‘amplicons’ running away whole-metagenome datasets
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