Media for project "NERP TE Project 1.1 - Monitoring status and trends of coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef (AIMS)"

This page contains all media associated with this project. For more information about the project and its datasets please go to the project metadata record https://eatlas.org.au/data/uuid/1a46774e-a3ac-4982-b08b-94ce1ad8d45c.

Images

An example of coral juvenile abundance on North Reef

Coral recovering after Tropical Cyclone Hamish

Coral recovering in Wreck Island Reef after Tropical Cyclone Hamish

Coral recovery and community reassembly on Great Barrier Reef AIMS survey reefs

Coral supports high fish diversity on GBR reefs

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish outbreak - Before After on reef

Prolifering branching corals at Broomfield Reef

Rubble bank created during Tropical Cyclone Hamish

Time series of coral reef disturbance and recovery

View of the upper reef slope showing a thriving coral community.

Visual fish census data collection AIMS reef monitoring

With this many juvenile corals (0-5cm) and teenage corals around, the coral cover at North reef is increasing.

Articles

Effects of marine park zoning on the incidence of crown-of-thorns outbreaks

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2 December 2014

The crown-of-thorns seastar, Acanthaster planci, is a predator of corals and along with cyclones is the major cause of coral mortality on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) 1 .

Coral recovery - are reef communities similar before and after disturbance?

Published on

23 October 2014

Corals are the back bones of coral reef ecosystems.

Juvenile corals on the Great Barrier Reef - the sex life of corals and the importance of recruitment to coral reef recovery.

Published on

21 October 2014

Corals have an interesting life cycle and spend part of their lives floating around in the sea and part of their lives stuck to the reef. Adult corals are actually colonies made up of many organisms called polyps.

Understanding patterns of reef fish diversity on the Great Barrier Reef

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16 October 2014

Preserving biodiversity is an essential component of most conservation and environmental management strategies but what actually is biodiversity and why is it important?

Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) Acanthaster planci and the Great Barrier Reef.

Published on

26 September 2014

The crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) (Acanthaster planci) feeds almost exclusively on hard corals and is endemic to coral reef ecosystems throughout the Indo-Pacific (Birkeland 1990).

Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) outbreaks on the Great Barrier Reef [animation]

Published on

26 March 2014

This animation shows the locations of Crown of Thorns Starfish (COTS) outbreaks as measured over the last 30 years.

Long Term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef

Published on

14 February 2014

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) has great economic importance as well as immense aesthetic value, contributing an estimated $5.8 billion to the Australian economy, principally through tourism, and commercial and recreational fisheries.