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Further reading:

Information about the biology of coral reefs and the Great Barrier Reef:

About soft corals

Research publications about the Great Barrier Reef are also available at:

Information on the long term monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef:

About crown-of-thorns starfish:

Crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef

Managing crown of thorns starfish outbreaks

About climate change, coral bleaching and coral reefs:

About GBRMPA’s coral bleaching program

Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef

August 2003 report on climate change and coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef

About climate change and coral reefs

About coral disease:

On the Great Barrier Reef

General coral disease information

About water quality and coral reefs

Please visit the chapter Environmental Status – Water quality

Information on coral reefs around the world

Bibliography

Ayling, A. 1997, ‘The biological status of fringing reefs in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area’, in State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Workshop: proceedings of a technical workshop held in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 27-29 November 1995, eds D. Wachenfeld, J. Oliver and K. Davis, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, pp. 109-113.

Ayling, A.M. and Ayling, A.L. 1998, The effect of the Daintree River flood plume on Snapper Island coral reefs, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Research Publication no. 53, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, viewed 28 June 2003, http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/info_services/publications/research_publications/rp53/index.html

Baird, A.H. and Marshall, P.A. 2002, ‘Mortality, growth and reproduction in scleractinian corals following bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef’, Marine Ecology Progress Series 237: 133-141.

Bell, P.R.F. and Elmetri I. 1995, ‘Ecological indicators of large-scale eutrophication in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon’, Ambio 24(4): 208-15.

Berkelmans, R. and Oliver, J.K. 1999, ‘Large-scale bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef’, Coral Reefs 18(1): 55-60.

Brodie, J. 1997, ‘The water quality status of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area’, in State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Workshop: proceedings of a technical workshop held in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 27-29 November 1995, eds D. Wachenfeld, J. Oliver and K. Davis, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, pp. 69-96.

Connell, J.H., Hughes, T.P. and Wallace, C.C. 1997, ‘Long-term dynamics of reef crest corals on Heron Island: 1960s to 1990s, in State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Workshop: proceedings of a technical workshop held in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 27-29 November 1995, eds D. Wachenfeld, J. Oliver and K. Davis, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, pp. 114-123.

Devlin, M., Waterhouse, J., Taylor, J. and Brodie, J. 2001, Flood plumes in the Great Barrier Reef: spatial and temporal patterns in composition and distribution, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Research Publication no. 68, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, viewed 28 June 2003, http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/info_services/publications/research_publications/rp68/index.html

Dineson, Z. and Oliver, J. 1997, ‘Tourism impacts’, in State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Workshop: proceedings of a technical workshop held in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 27-29 November 1995, eds D. Wachenfeld, J. Oliver and K. Davis, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville,pp. 414-427.

Done, T.J. 1982, ‘Patterns in the distribution of coral communities across the central Great Barrier Reef’, Coral Reefs 1(2): 95-107.

Done, T.J., DeVantier, L.M., Turak, E., McCook, L. and Fabricius, K. 1997, ‘Decadal changes in community structure in Great Barrier Reef coral reefs’, in State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Workshop: proceedings of a technical workshop held in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 27-29 November 1995, eds D. Wachenfeld, J. Oliver and K. Davis, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, pp. 97-108.

Fabricius, K.E. 1997, ‘Soft coral abundance on the central Great Barrier Reef: effects of Acanthaster planci, space availability and aspects of the physical environment’, Coral Reefs 16(3): 159-167.

Fabricius, K.E. and Alderslade, P. 2001, Soft corals and sea fans: a comprehensive guide to the tropical shallow water genera of the central-west Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville.

Fabricius, K.E. and De’ath, G. 2002, Soft coral atlas of the Great Barrier Reef, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, viewed 8 May 2003, http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/soft-corals/soft-corals00.html

Haynes, D. (ed) 2001, Great Barrier Reef water quality: current issues, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, viewed 24 June 2003, http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/key_issues/water_quality/current_issues/wq_report98-aug01.pdf

Harriott V.J. and Banks, S.A. 2002, ‘Latitudinal variation in coral communities in eastern Australia: a qualitative biophysical model of factors regulating coral reefs’, Coral Reefs 21(1): 83-94.

Hughes, T.P., Baird, A.H., Dinsdale, E.A., Moltschaniwskj, N.A., Pratchett, M.S., Tanner, J.E. and Willis, B.L. 1999, ‘Patterns of recruitment and abundance of corals along the Great Barrier Reef’, Nature 397(6714): 59-63.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I 2001, Climate change 2001: the scientific basis; contribution of Working Group I to the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, eds J.T. Houghton, Y. Ding, D.J. Griggs, M. Noguer, P.J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell and C.A. Johnson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, viewed 24 June 2003, http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II 2001, Climate change 2001: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability: contribution of Working Group II to the third assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, eds J.J. McCarthy, O.F. Canziani, N.A. Leary, D.J. Dokken and K.S. White, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, viewed 24 June 2003, http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/index.htm

King B., McAllister F. and Done T. 2002, Modelling the impact of the Burdekin, Herbert, Tully and Johnstone River plumes on the Central Great Barrier Reef, CRC Reef Research Centre Technical Report no. 44, CRC Reef Research Centre, Townsville, viewed 27 June 2003, http://www.reef.crc.org.au/publications/techreport/pdf/techrep_44_king.pdf

Lough, J.M. and Barnes, D.J. 1997, ‘Centuries-long records of coral growth on the Great Barrier Reef’, in State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Workshop: proceedings of a technical workshop held in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 27-29 November 1995, eds D. Wachenfeld, J. Oliver and K. Davis, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, pp. 149-157.

Lough, J.M. 2000, ‘1997-98: unprecedented thermal stress to coral reefs?’, Geophysical Research Letters 27(23): 3901-3904.

Lourey, M.J., Ryan, D.A. and Miller, I.R. 2000, ‘Rates of decline and recovery of coral cover on reefs impacted by, recovering from and unaffected by crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci: a regional perspective of the Great Barrier Reef’, Marine Ecology Progress Series 196: 179-186.

Marshall, P.A. and Baird, A.H. 2000, ‘Bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef: differential susceptibilities among taxa’, Coral Reefs 19(2): 155-163.

Moss, A.J., Rayment, G.E., Reilly, N. and Best, E.K. 1992, A preliminary assessment of sediment and nutrient exports from Queensland coastal catchments, Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage and Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries, Brisbane.

Ninio, R., Meekan, M., Done, T. and Sweatman, H. 2000, ‘Temporal patterns in coral assemblages on the Great Barrier Reef from local to large spatial scales’, Marine Ecology Progress Series 194: 65-74.

Ninio, R. and Meekan, M.G. 2002, ‘Spatial patterns in benthic communities and the dynamics of a mosaic ecosystem on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’, Coral Reefs 21(1): 95-103.

Nott, J. and Hanye, M. 2001, ‘High frequency of ‘super-cyclones’ along the Great Barrier Reef over the past 5,000 years’, Nature 413(6855): 508-512.

Osborne, K., Ninio, R. & Sweatman, H. 1997, ‘The current status of sessile benthic organisms on the Great Barrier Reef’, inState of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Workshop: proceedings of a technical workshop held in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 27-29 November 1995, eds D. Wachenfeld, J. Oliver and K. Davis, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, pp. 124-33.

Plathong, S., Inglis, J.G. and Huber, E.M. 2000, ‘Effects of self-guided snorkelling trails on corals in a tropical marine park’, Conservation Biology 14 (6): 1821-1830.

Puotinen, M.L., Done, T.J. and Skelly, W.C. 1997, An atlas of tropical cyclones in the Great Barrier Reef Region 1969-1997, CRC Reef Research Centre Technical Report no. 19, CRC Reef Research Centre, Townsville.

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Rouphael, A.B. and Inglis, G.J. 2001, ‘Take only photographs and leave only footprints?: an experimental study of the impacts of underwater photographers on coral reef dive sites’, Biological Conservation 100(3): 281-287.

Seymore, R.M. and Bradbury, R.H. 1999, ‘Lengthening reef recovery times from crown-of-thorns outbreaks signal systemic degradation of the Great Barrier Reef’, Marine Ecology Progress Series 176: 1-10.

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Sweatman, H., Cheal, A., Coleman, G., Fitzpatrick, B., Miller, I., Ninio, R., Osborne, K., Page, C., Ryan, D., Thompson, A. and Tomkins, P. 2000, Long-term monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef, Status Report no. 4, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville.

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