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What Is the Greatest Threat to Australia's Great Barrier Reef?
- Source :
- CO2 Science; 6/25/2014, Vol. 17 Issue 26, p1-1, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- The article focuses on a research paper by P.R.F. Bell and colleagues published in the "AMBIO," a journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which revealed the loss of coral in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) by 70 percent in Australia. It mentions that the loss of hermatypic coral lead to storm damage, coral bleaching and the growth of corallivores. It also mentions the coral skeletal diseases (CSDs) including Black Band Disease, Brown Band syndrome, White Syndrome in the GBR.
- Subjects :
- CORAL declines
CORALS
CORAL bleaching
STORM damage
CORAL reefs & islands
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 26
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- CO2 Science
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 96894983