The influence of a season of extreme wet weather events on exposure of the World Heritage Area Great Barrier Reef to pesticides.

Use Of Sednet Model To Establish Sediment Export Targets For Catchments Of The Wet Tropics Draining To The Great Barrier Reef

Some of the inshore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef are showing impacts consistent with a decline in water quality as a result of increased sediments and nutrients. The Wet Tropics covers approximately 2.2 million hectares and includes 91 percent of the Wet Tropics World Heritage area. The climate and geomorphologic conditions of the region are unique in Australia and generally result in fast f...

Investigation of the atmospheric circulation anomalies associated with extreme rainfall events over the Coastal West Africa

This study investigates the atmospheric circulation associated with extreme rainfall events over the coastal West Africa. The rainfall data of this study were obtained from the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), spanning from 1981 to 2010. The atmospheric datasets were also obtained from the ERA-Interim reanalysis. The study employed the Z-Index to categorize dry and wet years into...

Fate of Australia’s wildlife in the balance

Reef life: The Great Barrier Reef is widely known as one of the great wonders of the natural world, but it is exposed to a wide range of threats both from ocean warming and from land-use changes in Queensland. (Photo: LCDR Eric Johnson, NOAA Corps.) The Great Barrier Reef spans a length greater than Italy and thus counts as the largest structure created by living beings. It is a World Heritage ...

Marine microbial communities of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon are influenced by riverine floodwaters and seasonal weather events.

The role of microorganisms in maintaining coral reef health is increasingly recognized. Riverine floodwater containing herbicides and excess nutrients from fertilizers compromises water quality in the inshore Great Barrier Reef (GBR), with unknown consequences for planktonic marine microbial communities and thus coral reefs. In this baseline study, inshore GBR microbial communities were monitor...

Mesophotic Coral Reef Ecosystems in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area