A5013558495- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Geological formations and processes
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
2024
James Cook University
2013-2022
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
2009
A strong driver of water quality change in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is pulsed or intermittent nature terrestrial inputs into GBR lagoon, including delivery increased loads sediments, nutrients, and toxicants via flood river plumes (hereafter plumes) during wet season. Cumulative pressures from extreme weather with a high frequency large scale flooding recent years has been linked to reported decline health inshore seagrass systems coral reefs central areas GBR, concerns for recovery...
Ecological resilience assessments are an important part of resilience-based management (RBM) and can help prioritize target actions. Use such has been limited due to a lack clear guidance on the assessment process. This study builds latest scientific advances in RBM provide that from undertaken Commonwealth Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). We assessed spatial variation ecological potential at 78 forereef sites near populated islands CNMI: Saipan, Tinian/Aguijan, Rota. The based measuring...
Resilience-based management is essential to protect ecosystems in the Anthropocene. Unlike large-scale climate threats Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals, outbreaks of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS; Acanthaster cf. solaris ) can be directly managed through targeted culling. Here, we evaluate outcomes a decade strategic COTS suppressing and protecting corals during 4 th outbreak wave at reef regional scales (sectors). We compare density coral cover dynamics 3 rd waves. During 4th...
River runoff and associated flood plumes (hereafter river plumes) are a major source of land-sourced contaminants to the marine environment, significant threat coastal ecosystems worldwide. Remote sensing monitoring products have been developed map spatial extent, composition frequency occurrence in Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia. There is, however, need incorporate these into Risk Assessment Frameworks as management decision tools. A simple Satellite Framework has recently proposed...
Combining in-situ data from single-point time series with remotely sensed spatial allowed a greater elucidation of changes in chlorophyll-a concentrations through wet season conditions the Great Barrier Reef coastal waters. Single-point time-series were collected 2006 to 2012 during high river flow assess phytoplankton biomass (measured as chlorophyll-a). Additionally, three flood plume water types, derived classified true-colour Aqua moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS)...
Nearshore deterioration of water quality in Pacific coastal waters is a growing problem, associated with increasing urban and industrial sewage discharges, agricultural runoff. Published studies the region are limited both number scope, making it difficult to resolve extent issue or quantify variability across islands countries. This study collected measurements over three years around Island Efate (Vanuatu) majority work carried out Port Vila, its capital. Vila key centre for Vanuatu where...
Approximately one-third of long rivers remain free-flowing, and face a range ongoing future threats. In response, there is heightened call for actions to reverse the freshwater biodiversity crisis, including through formal global targets protection. The Aichi Biodiversity Targets called protection 17% inland water areas by 2020. Here, we examine levels spatial patterns specific type area—rivers designated as free-flowing. Out total 11.7 million kilometers rivers, 1.9 (16%) are within...
Abstract The Arafura and Timor Seas region is shared by Indonesia, Leste, Australia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), at the intersection of Pacific Indian oceans. High coastal population densities, degraded habitats, overexploited fisheries, low profile coasts, shallow continental shelves macro-tidal conditions mean that marine environments in are currently facing multiple pressures. Climate change expected to exacerbate these pressures have profound effects on status distribution fish invertebrates...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 397:1-5 (2009) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08452 INTRODUCTION Recent advances in deep-sea coral science and emerging links conservation management of ecosystems Karen Miller1,*, Helen Neil2, Di Tracey2 1Institute Antarctic Southern Ocean Studies, University Tasmania, Private Bag 77, Hobart 7001,...
Seagrasses are globally important, but their extent is decreasing due to the impact of human activities and changing climatic conditions. Seagrass meadows provide vital services, condition distribution not yet well known, particularly in many small tropical Pacific islands. In 2018, observations samples were collected from intertidal seagrasses Efate Island, Vanuatu (South Pacific). Observations included canopy height, percentage cover, growth rate species variety. Water quality also some...
For many years, local communities have expressed concerns that turbid plume waters from the Fly River in Papua New Guinea may potentially deliver mine-derived contaminants to Torres Strait, an ecologically and culturally unique area north of Australian mainland. Information on suspended sediment transport turbidity patterns are needed this data-limited region identify manage downstream ecosystems be at risk exposure runoff. This study used MODIS satellite time series a colour-classification...