AIMS Long-term Monitoring Program: Agents of coral mortality (Great Barrier Reef)
In 6 sectors of the Great Barrier Reef (Cooktown/Lizard island, Cairns, Townsville, Whitsunday, Swain and Capricorn Bunker) 49 of the key manta tow reefs are designated 'core' survey reefs and are also surveyed using the scuba search technique. Where possible, three or more reefs in each sector have been selected in each of three positions across the continental shelf: inshore, mid-shelf and outer shelf.
Results of scuba searches for juvenile Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS), Acanthaster cf. solaris, and the mollusc Drupella. Observations have been obtained since October 1989 and are ongoing.
Data includes counts of COTS and Drupella, coral feeding scars caused by COTS and Drupella, and the outbreaking status of COTS and Drupella. Also recorded are the percentage of bleached coral and the number of corals affected by disease. Diseases identified are: white syndrome, black band, skeletal eroding band and brown band. Any scar of unknown origin is also recorded.
Information is also recorded about the reef environment of each survey (e.g. reef slope, substratum at reef base) and its benthic community (dominant benthic group, dominant hard coral, dominant coral life form).
To facilitate causes of coral mortality including juvenile and adult Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS), Acanthaster cf. solaris, and the mollusc Drupella.
To assess the amount of coral bleaching and disease.
Bleaching is recorded as a percentage of the total hard coral cover: 0=absent, 0+ = individual colonies, -1= 1-5%, +1= 6-10%, 2=11-30%, 3=31-50%, 4 =51-75%, 5=76-100%
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A guide to the reef monitoring database. Long term monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Standard operational procedure No. 5: Baker VJ and Coleman GJ (2000) A…HTML Ouvrir
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Long-term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Status Report Number 3: Sweatman HPA, Bass DK, Cheal AJ, Coleman GJ, Miller IR, Ninio R, Osborne K, Oxley WG,…HTML Ouvrir
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Long-term monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Status Report Number 2: Sweatman HPA (1997) Long-term monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Status Report Number…HTML Ouvrir
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Long-Term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef, Status Report Number 5: Sweatman HPA, Cheal AJ, Coleman GJ, Delean S, Fitzpatrick BM, Miller IR, Ninio R,…HTML Ouvrir
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Long-term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Status Report Number 4: Sweatman HPA, Cheal AJ, Coleman GJ, Fitzpatrick BM, Miller IR, Ninio R, Osborne K, Page…HTML Ouvrir
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Long-Term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Status Report Number 6: Sweatman HPA, Abdo D, Burgess S, Coleman GJ, Delean S, Emslie MJ, Miller IR, Osborne K,…HTML Ouvrir
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Crown-of-thorns starfish and coral surveys using the manta tow and scuba search techniques. Standard operational procedure No.8: Miller IR (2003)…HTML Ouvrir
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Reef Dashboard: latest annual update of the coral cover trend in the Great Barrier ReefHTML Ouvrir
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Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) populations in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area: status report 1995-96: Engelhardt U, Miller IR, Lassig…HTML Ouvrir
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Long-term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Status Report Number 1: Oliver JK, De'ath AG, Done TJ, Williams DMcB, Furnas MJ and Moran PJ (1995) Long-term…HTML Ouvrir
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Crown-of-thorns Starfish, Coral surveys Using the Manta Tow, Scuba Search Techniques. Long term monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Standard operational…HTML Ouvrir
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The current status of sessile benthic organisms of the Great Barrier Reef: Osborne K, Ninio R and Sweatman HPA (1997) The current status of sessile benthic…HTML Ouvrir
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Report on field surveys to locate high density populations of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) within the central Great Barrier Reef. The…HTML Ouvrir
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AIMS long-term reef monitoring programHTML Ouvrir
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Long-term Monitoring of the Great Barrier reef, Status Report: Sweatman HPA, Cheal AJ, Coleman GJ, Emslie MJ, Johns K, Jonker M, Miller IR and Osborne K (2008)…HTML Ouvrir
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Thermal Stress and Coral Cover as Drivers of Coral Disease Outbreaks: Bruno JF, Selig ER, Casey KS, Page CM, Willis BL, Harvell CD, Sweatman HPA and Melendy AM…HTML Ouvrir
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Analyzing the relationships between ocean temperature anomalies and coral disease outbreaks at broad spatial scales: Selig ER, Harvell CD, Bruno JF, Willis BL,…HTML Ouvrir
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Long-term monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Status Report Number 7: Sweatman HPA, Burgess S, Cheal AJ, Coleman GJ, Delean S, Emslie MJ, McDonald A, Miller…HTML Ouvrir
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Long-Term Monitoring Program Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Condition 2020/2021HTML Ouvrir
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