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https://hdl.handle.net/11017/312The effect of the Daintree River flood plume on Snapper Island coral reefs
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| Title: | The effect of the Daintree River flood plume on Snapper Island coral reefs |
| Authors: | Ayling, A.M. Ayling, A.L. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
| Keywords: | Sediment transport;Reef ecology |
| ASFA Subjects: | River plumes coral reefs Ecosystem disturbance |
| APAIS Subject: | Floods Environmental impact studies |
| Location: | Cairns/Cooktown Management Area |
| Category: | Research Extreme events Water quality |
| Issue Date: | 1998 |
| Publisher: | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
| Series/Report no.: | Research publication series no. 53 Research publication |
| Abstract: | Surveys of fringing reefs were conducted in the Cairns region in early 1995. The reef slope of these reefs supported rich coral communities with mean coral cover of around 80%. The reefs around Snapper Island were particularly rich at this time with 88% cover recorded on the north face of the Island and 88.3% on the south. This small, narrow island is only about two kilometres long from west tip to east lip and lies about 75 kilometres north of Cairns and only five kilometres east of the Daintree River mouth. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11017/312 |
| ISBN: | 9780642230492 |
| Type of document: | Report |
| Appears in Collections: | Effects |
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