Islands Of Australia S Great Barrier Reef 4
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Islands Of Australia S Great Barrier Reef 4
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Author : Lonely Planet Staff
language : en
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The Great Barrier Reef And Adjacent Isles
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Author : Keith Gillett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Great Barrier Reef And Adjacent Isles written by Keith Gillett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Great Barrier Reef (Qld.). categories.
The Great Barrier Reef
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Author : Ben Daley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-17
The Great Barrier Reef written by Ben Daley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-17 with Nature categories.
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.
The Great Barrier Reef Revised Edition
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Author : James Woodford
language : en
Publisher: Pan Australia
Release Date : 2011-08-01
The Great Barrier Reef Revised Edition written by James Woodford and has been published by Pan Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with Travel categories.
The real Great Barrier Reef is not just a single clown fish or a colony of branching stag horn coral. It is not simply the crystal clear water, cocktails and beautiful bodies of the tourist ads. Nor is it just the stage for murders, mishaps, shipwrecks, shark attacks, crocodile death rolls or gropers that swallow men's heads whole and only sometimes spit them back out. The real Great Barrier Reef is a living thing - a 2300-kilometre-long, untamed organism, made up of trillions of animals. It is the magnificent and terrifying home to the wild things of nightmares and hallucinations. James Woodford wanted to understand the real reef in all its complexity and along its entire, extraordinary length. For a year he worked and dived with marine biologists, exploring it from the coral outpost of Lord Howe Island in the south to the crocodile-haunted waters at the reef's northern boundary in Cape York. The Great Barrier Reef is a thrilling study of the reef - of its beauty, mystery and terror as it faces its greatest threat, rising sea temperatures that stem from global warming. Part science, part history, part travel and wholly adventurous, Woodford's book is as captivating, grand and magical as the reef itself.
The Great Barrier Reef
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Author : James Bowen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-17
The Great Barrier Reef written by James Bowen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-17 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
A Reef In Time
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Author : J.E.N. Veron
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-30
A Reef In Time written by J.E.N. Veron and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-30 with Nature categories.
Like many coral specialists fifteen years ago, J. E. N. Veron thought Australia's Great Barrier Reef was impervious to climate change. "Owned by a prosperous country and accorded the protection it deserves, it would surely not go the way of the Amazon rain forest or the parklands of Africa, but would endure forever. That is what I thought once, but I think it no longer." This book is Veron's Silent Spring for the world's coral reefs. Veron presents the geological history of the reef, the biology of coral reef ecosystems, and a primer on what we know about climate change. He concludes that the Great Barrier Reef and, indeed, most coral reefs will be dead from mass bleaching and irreversible acidification within the coming century unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed. If we don't have the political will to confront the plight of the world's reefs, he argues, current processes already in motion will become unstoppable, bringing on a mass extinction the world has not seen for 65 million years. Our species has cracked its own genetic code and sent representatives of its kind to the moon--we can certainly save the world's reefs if we want to. But to achieve this goal, we must devote scientific expertise and political muscle to the development of green technologies that will dramatically reduce greenhouse emissions and reverse acidification of the oceans.
The Great Barrier Reef Of Australia
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Author : William Saville-Kent
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
The Great Barrier Reef Of Australia written by William Saville-Kent and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Coral reefs and islands categories.
A Year On The Great Barrier Reef
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Author : Charles Maurice Yonge
language : en
Publisher: London : Putnam
Release Date : 1930
A Year On The Great Barrier Reef written by Charles Maurice Yonge and has been published by London : Putnam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Coral reefs and islands categories.
Great Barrier Reef
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Author : Lea Rawls
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-27
Great Barrier Reef written by Lea Rawls and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-27 with categories.
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi). The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms. This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps. It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981. CNN labelled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world. The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland. A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985. The Great Barrier Reef has long been known to and used by the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and is an important part of local groups' cultures and spirituality. The reef is a very popular destination for tourists, especially in the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns regions. Tourism is an important economic activity for the region, generating over AUD$3 billion per year.
Australia S Coral Sea Islands Marine Park
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Author : Peter Sayre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-02
Australia S Coral Sea Islands Marine Park written by Peter Sayre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02 with categories.
Written as a guide to the islands and reefs of the Australian Coral Sea. This book contains 32 maps and 173 colour photos, including aerial and underwater photography. There are G.P.S. positions of reefs, anchorages, wrecks and dive sites. This information packed book also describes in detail every island, cay and reef within Australia's Coral Sea Marine Park, making it a must for every mariner wishing to explore. The description and stories of 93 shipwrecks will send your mind back to a time when ships of timber powered by the wind, were smashed upon uncharted reefs. The author has spent a lifetime exploring the forgotten islands of Australia's Coral Sea and presented it in a brilliant publication that is fully referenced, informative and entertaining.