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Great Barrier Reef Report Card Regional Summaries - 2009 Baseline

...g the report card results for land practices, catchment indicators and loads, and the marine parameters; water quality, seagrass, and corals. It also describes positive actions in the regions to improve ecosystem health. For additional details on t...

2010 Maryland Coastal Bays report card

...Bays health is defined as the progress of four water quality indicators (TN, TP, Chl a , DO) and two biotic indicators (seagrass, hard clams) toward scientifically derived ecological thresholds or goals. The six indicators are combined into one ove...

South East Queensland Floods 2011

... Moreton Bay creatures. This newsletter provides an overview of some of the initial flood impact assessment results for seagrasses, turtles and dugongs, and identifies the risks that need to be monitored. For further infomation, see the associated...

Adapting to climate change

...on climate change effects in particular. The Verde Island Passage has highly diverse coral reefs, mangrove forests, and seagrass meadows, as well as millions of people who rely on the health and sustainability of the marine resources for their live...

Adapting to climate change

...in particular on climate change effects. The Verde Island Passage has highly diverse coral reefs, mangrove forests, and seagrass meadows, as well as millions of people who rely on the health and sustainability of the marine resources for their live...

Maryland Coastal Bays Report Card 2009

... Bays health is defined as the progressof four water quality indicators (TN, TP, Chl a , DO) and two biotic indicators (seagrass, hard clams) toward scientifically derived ecological thresholds or goals. The six indicators are combined into one ove...

Development of water transparency criteria for Florida seagrasses

Development of water transparency criteria for Florida seagrasses ... The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is developing a new transparency standard for marine wat...

Seagrasses: biology, ecology and conservation

Seagrasses: biology, ecology and conservation ... Seagrasses: biology, ecology and conservation, edited by Tony Larkum, Bob Orth and Carlos Duarte, and authored by 79 active seag...

Trophic Transfers from Seagrass Meadows Subsidize Diverse Marine and Terrestrial Consumers

Trophic Transfers from Seagrass Meadows Subsidize Diverse Marine and Terrestrial Consumers ... In many coastal locations, seagrass meadows are part of...

Effects of nutrient enrichment in the nation's estuaries: A decade of change

...ptoms are more prevalent in systems with longer residence times, such as coastal lagoons. The successful restoration of seagrass in Tampa Bay is encouraging though future management to sustain the recovery will be difficult given expected populatio...

The charisma of coastal ecosystems: addressing the imbalance

...harisma of coastal ecosystems: addressing the imbalance ... Coastal ecosystems including coral reefs, mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, and salt marshes are being lost at alarming rates, and increased scientific understanding of causes has failed...

Seagrass: A Hidden Treasure

Seagrass: A Hidden Treasure ... This brochure is part of a series of images, diagrams and fun facts produced by the Global Seagr...

Protecting Palau's natural heritage

...l heritage ... The Republic of Palau, an island nation in the tropical western Pacific Ocean, harbors diverse mangrove, seagrass, and coral communities. Palau is at a crossroads due to improved access to, and development of, its largest island, Bab...

Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary: Case study of a highly eutrophic coastal bay system

... blooms, altered benthic invertebrate communities, impacted harvestable fisheries, and loss of essential habitat (i.e., seagrass and shellfish beds). Similar problems are evident in other shallow lagoonal estuaries of the Mid-Atlantic and South Atl...

Linking water quality to living resources in a mid-Atlantic lagoon system, USA

...makes them susceptible to eutrophication resulting from anthropogenic nutrient loadings. An intensive water quality and seagrass monitoring program was initiated to track ecological changes in the Maryland and Virginia coastal bays. The purpose of...

Global seagrass distribution and diversity: A bioregional model

Global seagrass distribution and diversity: A bioregional model ... Seagrasses, marine flowering plants, are widely distributed along temperate and tropical coastlines of the world. Seagrasses hav...

Seagrasses of south-west Australia: A conceptual synthesis of the world's most diverse and extensive seagrass meadows

Seagrasses of south-west Australia: A conceptual synthesis of the world's most diverse and extensive seagrass meadows ... South-west Australia contains extensive seagrass meadows along 2,500 km of coastline from the shallow subti...

Seagrasses: Prairies of the Sea

Seagrasses: Prairies of the Sea ... This brochure summarizes what are seagrasses, their role in the productivity of ecosystems, their importance to humans as well as a collection of fun facts. ... B...

A Global Crisis for Seagrass Ecosystems

A Global Crisis for Seagrass Ecosystems ... Seagrasses, marine flowering plants, have a long evolutionary history but are now challenged with rapid environmental changes as...

Monitoring toxic cyanobacteria Lyngbya majuscula (Gomont) in Moreton Bay, Australia by integrating satellite image data and field mapping

...d have been documented since 1997. L. majuscula is a toxic cyanobacteria which fixes nitrogen and is found attached to: seagrass, algae and coral. The toxic and smothering nature of L. majuscula has affected human and environmental health in sensit...

Seagrasses of Southwest Australia

Seagrasses of Southwest Australia ... Southwest Australia has warm temperate water with a mixture of tropical influences from th...

Seagrasses of Southwest Australia: Estuaries

Seagrasses of Southwest Australia: Estuaries ... Estuaries are transition zones where rivers meet the ocean, creating an environ...

Seagrasses of Southwest Australia: South Coast

Seagrasses of Southwest Australia: South Coast ... On the south coast, a diverse range of seagrasses grow in habitats protected from the full force of waves by islands and headlands. South coast seagrasses grow on sili...

Seagrasses of Southwest Australia: West Coast

Seagrasses of Southwest Australia: West Coast ... Along some 600 km of the west coast, a line of offshore islands and submerged...

Organochlorine and heavy metal concentrations in blubber and liver tissue collected from Queensland (Australia) dugong (Dugong dugon)

...c activities. ... bioaccumulation, dioxins, dugongs, Great Barrier Reef, heavy metals, marine mammals, organochlorines, seagrass ... Bill Dennison ... Haynes D, Carter S, Gaus C, Muller J, and Dennison WC...

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