Sentences with phrase «great barrier»

The thriving wetlands will provide a buffer for the Great Barrier Reef, says Niall Connolly of Greening Australia, a conservation group helping with the restoration efforts.

It's therefore highly likely that the three species of trout on the Great Barrier Reef are suffering from skin cancer, the team reports online today in PLoS ONE.

This would go a long way towards meeting the Australian government's target of halving sediment load in the Great Barrier Reef by 2025.

A new study has found the first skin cancers in wild fish, specifically in coral, bar - cheeked, and blue spotted trout swimming on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

She looked at Labroides dimidiatus, one species of cleaner fish on the Great Barrier Reef.

The first hint that they did came when a group of marine biologists at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, who were studying sharks on the country's Great Barrier Reef, noticed that the coral, bar - cheeked, and blue spotted trout being eaten by the sharks had black patches on their skin.

Its aim: to help save the Great Barrier Reef 20 kilometres out at sea.

In 2004 authorities split the Great Barrier Reef into 154 zones, where each zone was fished only once every three years.

The researchers sampled 15 reef cores from the Southern Great Barrier Reef.

The practice has put some sea cucumber species at high risk of extinction, even in a relatively well - managed area, the Great Barrier Marine Park in Australia.

Environmental factors similar to those affecting the present day Great Barrier Reef have been linked to a major slowdown in its growth eight thousand years ago, research led by the University of Sydney shows.

Researchers and environmentalists have typically focused on regions brimming with species, such as the Amazon rainforest and Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Reefs in this area of the Great Barrier Reef suffered high mortality from coral bleaching, researchers have determined.

What's more, the Australian group found no pollutants in the highly protected Great Barrier Reef that would have caused such discoloration.

The Great Barrier Reef lies directly below the largest hole in the ozone layer, which means the region receives significantly more UV radiation than other place on Earth.

«The best available science makes it very clear that expansion of the port at Abbot Point will have detrimental effects on the Great Barrier Reef,» the letter said.

Last week, delegates warned that the Great Barrier Reef could be placed on a list of threatened sites due to plans to dump up to 3 million cubic meters of dredge spoils inside the UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Australia will dump millions of tonnes of sludge inside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park so that it can export more coal.

That's the response of Australia's leading scientists to the government's plan to take care of the Great Barrier Reef.

Recently, the government, headed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, triggered a public debate over plans to construct potentially the world's largest coal port adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, a UNESCO World Heritage Area, and to excise 74,000 hectares of forest from Tasmania's World Heritage — listed site.

But today, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority — the agency mandated to protect the park — approved the dumping, which is most likely to be at a location near Bowen, 25 kilometres south - east of Abbot Point.

The plan also fails to question the need for four port expansions that will involve dredging inside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Tony Larkum from the University of Sydney has joined forces with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to launch a project called the Effect of Nutrient Enrichment on Coral Reefs (ENCORE), which is supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council.

A new study has found that Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals were able to survive past bleaching events because they were exposed to a pattern of gradually warming waters in the lead up to each episode.

«Great Barrier Reef risks losing tolerance to bleaching events.»

For the study, the researchers simulated sediment conditions frequently found on inshore reefs on the Great Barrier Reef, but they say the problem isn't limited to Australian waters.

Robots will soon be releasing simulated sewage into the sea around Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an experiment designed to show whether pollution from sewage and fertiliser is damaging the reef's coral.

The scientists said one - third of the Great Barrier Reef lies beyond the seaward edge of the shallower reefs, and the discovery of this prominent undersea landslide and its vast debris field in the deep Great Barrier Reef reveals a far more complex landscape than previously known.

«Until the 1970s, these reefs were dominated by two species that were close relatives of the branching corals that dominate the reefs of the Great Barrier Reef.

Macdonald developed the WetPC to improve the efficiency of the institute's survey work on reefs, particularly the extensive data collection needed for research into the impact of crown - of - thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef.

In stunning new findings that have laid bare the limitations of marine parks as defenses against rapid environmental change, more than half of the corals surveyed in large chunks of this pristine stretch of the Great Barrier Reef are expected to soon be dead.

James Cook University scientists have helped discover the remnants of a massive undersea landslide on the Great Barrier Reef, approximately 30 times the volume of Uluru.

It generates $ 4.45 billion in tourism revenue annually and supports nearly 70,000 jobs, according to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

During a night dive in deep water off the northern Great Barrier Reef, zoologist Mark Norman of Museum Victoria in Melbourne and his colleagues had what they say is scientists» first - ever encounter with a live male blanket octopus.

Beyond its beauty, the Great Barrier Reef also has a huge economic benefit on the Australian economy.

Overall, 35 percent of the corals surveyed in the central and northern sections of the Great Barrier Reef were reported this week to be dead or dying.

Stout infantfish were captured in a plankton net on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia by a field researcher in 1979, then overlooked for more than two decades until H. J. Walker, a senior museum scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and William Watson of the National Marine Fisheries Service, realized they were an unknown species.

Kline said the Great Barrier Reef is inside what's considered to be «one of the best managed and most successful» marine parks in the world.

Climate research and Great Barrier Reef management are both hot political issues in Australia, where a federal election will be held next month.

Pink whiprays have been photographed piggybacking on other stingrays for the first time on the Great Barrier Reef off Townsville in Queensland, Australia.

«Fishing impacts on the Great Barrier Reef.»

As part of the study, the researchers conducted extensive surveys of fish and their habitats at multiple sites across the Great Barrier Reef.

New research shows that fishing is having a significant impact on the make - up of fish populations of the Great Barrier Reef.

Evidence from the Great Barrier Reef suggests corals that are tolerant of high temperatures can pass the trait to the next generation through their genes

«The good news is that the data demonstrate that the current system of marine reserves on the Great Barrier Reef is effective in preserving predator numbers, and in doing so we can learn more about the processes affecting reefs in the face of multiple impacts,» Professor Kingsford says.

Predatory fish are extremely important for maintaining a balanced ecosystem on the Great Barrier Reef.

«Major disturbances such as cyclones, coral bleaching, climate change, Crown of Thorns Starfish and river run - off are thought to be the primary agents of change on the Great Barrier Reef,» says study co-author, Professor Mike Kingsford from the Coral CoE.

The Great Barrier Reef has already experienced a 50 percent decline in coral cover over the last 27 years, in large part due to nutrient runoff from the coasts.

Here's one munching on the tentacles of a glowing jellyfish in the Great Barrier Reef.

Guinotte said scientists are also worried about threats to the Great Barrier Reef's UNESCO World Heritage site status.