COVER PAGE & VERSO [Adobe Acrobat Format 2108.37KB]

PREFACE [Adobe Acrobat Format 95.12KB]

TABLE OF CONTENTS [Adobe Acrobat Format 159.87KB]

INTRODUCTORY SESSION [Adobe Acrobat Format 1282.70KB]

SESSIONS

• Land use influence and nearshore processes and pressures [Adobe Acrobat Format 3722.69KB]
  • Keynote Paper: Run-off from the land to the rivers and the sea R Wasson
  • Sources of material in river discharge G Rayment*and D Neil
  • Terrestrial inputs of nutrients and suspended sediments to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon A Mitchell and M Furnas*
  • Marine plants as bioindicators to infer source, transport and fate of nutrients on the Great Barrier Reef B Dennison (abstract only)
• Pressures and effects on the Great Barrier Reef lagoon [Adobe Acrobat Format 5505.25KB]
  • Keynote Paper: Biological oceanography of the Great Barrier Reef M Furnas* and A Mitchell
  • Soft-bottom benthic communities and processes in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon D Alongi (Paper not presented)
  • Impacts on and responses of seagrasses in the Great Barrier Reef - issues for management W Lee Long* and R Cole
  • The effects of prawn trawl fisheries on Great Barrier Reef seabed habitats R Pitcher*, C Burridge, T Wassenberg and I Poiner
  • Endangered and charismatic megafauna H Marsh*, P Arnold, C Limpus, A Birtles, B Breen, J Robins and R Williams
• Pressures on reefs, islands and cays [Adobe Acrobat Format 4444.98KB]
  • Keynote Paper: Issue-driven research for managing the Great Barrier Reef: progress and future directions T Done*, L Bode, R Coles, C Crossland, U Engelhardt, M Furnas and K Woolfe
  • Population and community dynamics of corals: implications for management of the Great Barrier Reef T Hughes (abstract only)
  • Environmental implicaions of waste-water management on resort islands of the Great Barrier Reef R Volker*, M Gallagher and A Johnston
  • Threats, status, trends and management of seabirds on the Great Barrier Reef K Hulsman*, P O'Neill, T Stokes and M Warnet
  • The effects of line fishing on the Great Barrier Reef: available evidence and future directions B Mapstone*, C Davies and J Robertson
• Large-scale phenomena and organism response [Adobe Acrobat Format 6970.59KB]
  • Keynote Paper: Massive corals: grand archives of Australian paleoclimate M Gagan*, S Anker, L Ayliffe, D Barnes, J Chappell, D Hopley, P Isdale, J Lough and M McCulloch
  • Coral bleaching: implications for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Hoegh-Guldberg*, R Berkelmans and J Oliver
  • Geoscience issues on the Great Barrier Reef: time scales for reef and shelf processes D Johnson*, P Larcombe, B Carter, A Orpin, P Ridd and K Woolfe
  • Organism level response of corals to increased nutrients concentrations D Yellowlees (abstract only)
  • A review of the possible causes and consequences of outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) on the Great Barrier Reef - an Australian perspective U Engelhardt* and B Lassig
  • Physical oceanography E Wolanski and B King*
• Management-science links [Adobe Acrobat Format 2863.86KB]
  • Catchment management links to the Great Barrier Reef C Robson (presented by D Begbie)
  • Effects of sugarcane growing on the environment H Bonanno (presented by I Ballantyne)
  • The marine tourism initiative towards use management in the Great Barrier Reef E Green
  • Fisheries management in the Great Barrier Reef region J Tanzer* M Elmer and T Healy
• People and the Reef [Adobe Acrobat Format 3793.65KB]
  • Keynote Paper: Science brokering and managing uncertainty P Cullen
  • Science and tourism infrastructure on the Great Barrier Reef: learning from experience or just 'muddling through'? G Ingli
  • Understanding Great Barrier Reef economics S Driml*, T Hundloe and R Blarney
  • Understanding the tourist market P Pearce*, G Moscardo and B Woods
  • Understanding visitors and use through social sciences research M Fenton and D Benzaken (abstract only, not presented)
• Reef Connectedness [Adobe Acrobat Format 1489.93KB]
  • Keynote Paper: Connectivity and the replenishment of fish populations on coral reefs P Doherty (abstract only)
  • On the assumption of larval dispersal among reefs: caution advised G Jones" (abstract only)
  • Genetic evidence for connectivity, past and present: implications for management J Benzie (abstract only)
  • Patterns of coral diversity within the Great Barrier Reef C Veron (abstract only)
  • Larval transport modelling in the Great Barrier Reef M James* L Mason and L Bode
• Managing the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area [Adobe Acrobat Format 2090.80KB]
  • Keynote Paper: Can the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area be managed sustainably? I Lowe (abstract only)
  • The changing roles of aboriginal people in the management of the Great Barrier Reef. N Pearson and A Leibler (Presented by A Tanner, abstract only)
  • State of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area report J Oliver (abstract only)
  • The Great Barrier Reef: multiple-use marine park and world heritage site P Valentine*, T Webb, H Marsh and P Lucas
  • Community involvement in the management of the Great Barrier Reef D Tarte* and E Heger

Throughout this table of contents* indicates, in the case of a multi authored paper, the person who presented the paper at the conference.

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