The Natural Recruitment And Recovery Process Of Corals At Green Island

V.J. Harriott and D.A. Fisk
Sir George Fisher Centre for Tropical Marine Studies
James Cook University, Townsville Qld. 4811, Australia
December 1989

COVER PAGE [Adobe Acrobat Format 81.89KB]

CONTENTS [Adobe Acrobat Format 82.08KB]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY [Adobe Acrobat Format 139.95KB]

RECOVERY OF THE CORAL COMMUNITY AT GREEN ISLAND [Adobe Acrobat Format 2670.05KB]

• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
  • Coral cover in 1985
  • Size frequency distribution
  • Hard versus soft corals
  • Changes in the coral community over 1 year
• Discussion

RECRUITMENT AND DISPERSAL OF SCLERACTINIAN CORALS AT GREEN, MICHAELMAS AND UPOLU REEFS [Adobe Acrobat Format 485.79KB]

• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
  • Recruitment patterns
  • Dispersal .pathways

POPULATION DYNAMICS OF JUVENILE CORALS AT GREEN ISLAND [Adobe Acrobat Format 558.48KB]

• Introduction
• Methods
• Results
  • Fission and fusion rates
  • Abundance of juveniles
  • Recruitment 1985-86
  • Mortality
  • Net changes
  • Growth rates
• Discussion

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS & APPENDIX  [Adobe Acrobat Format 122.06KB]

REFERENCES [Adobe Acrobat Format 318.23KB]

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