Although the debate about coral reef decline focuses on global disturbances (e.g., increasing temperatures and acidification), local stressors (nutrient runoff and overfishing) continue to affect reef health and resilience. ...
Outermost bands of corals were under-estimated in De'ath et al. (2009), and we have identified the cause of this problem as incomplete formation of some of the outermost bands. Correcting for this problem reduces our ...
Following a paper by Bunt et al. (1985) describing a numerical method for revealing mangrove species sequences along intertidal gradients, Sinclair (1986) drew attention to a source of bias in the procedure and offered a ...
Zinc (Zn) is essential for phytoplankton growth as it plays a central role within many enzymatic systems within phytoplankton. Here, we present dissolved Zn concentration and Zn chemical speciation results for samples ...
Zinc has been proposed as a limiting, or co-limiting, micronutrient for phytoplankton. In the Tasman Sea, extremely low zinc concentrations have been reported, raising the possibility there of limitation of phytoplankton ...
Zoanthid taxonomy is currently in a state of chaos, with many described species very few of which can be reliably identified. As part of a genetically based, objective reappraisal of the number of northern Australian ...
Benthic oxygen consumption and primary production were measured using the bell jar technique in deltaic and fringing mangrove forests of tropical northeastern Australia. In a deltaic forest, rates of sediment respiration ...
We describe zooplankton community structure and copepod egg production in the vicinity of the coastal boundary zone of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, Australia. The abundance and egg production rate of constituents of the ...
To investigate which physical processes contribute most in moulding zooplankton community structure in the waters close to coral reefs, light traps moored in a grid pattern were used to collect zooplankton from the sea ...
The specific activity of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (spAARS), an index of growth rate, and of the electron transport system (spETS), an index of respiration, was measured in three size fractions (73-150 mu m, > 150 mu m ...