ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
C-Plan conservation planning system. An interactive decision support system for conservation planning developed by Matt Watts and Bob Pressey.
Coral Triangle Initiative: 2008 workshop materials and outputs. As part of its contribution to a Coral Triangle Initiative workshop held in 2008, the Centre of Excellence in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Marine Science, circulated some background papers on issues related to designing a network of Marine Protected Areas in the Coral Triangle.
Coral health assessment in Caribbean or Indo-Pacific reefs. Produced by the GEF CRTR Program with research by Centre researchers Roger Beeden, Bette Willis and Cathie Page. Click on the images to download .pdf versions.
Coral Disease Handbook. Guidelines for Assessment, Monitoring & Management
Underwater Cards for Assessing Coral Health on Indo-Pacific Reefs
Underwater Cards for Assessing Coral Health on Caribbean Reefs
A Reef Manager’s Guide to Coral Bleaching. Guide produced by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority includes contributions from Centre of Excellence researchers, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Dr Andrew Baird, Dr Ken Anthony and Dr Laurence McCook.
How the Great Barrier Reef and its industries can adapt to climate change: some scenarios. This report draws four alternative future scenarios – snapshots of possible futures – which are designed to help the communities, businesses and industries involved in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to understand and discuss how climate change may affect the Reef and those who depend on it. Authors: Louisa Evans, Pedro Fidelman, Christina Hicks, Allison Perry, Renae Tobin. August 2011.
Preserving reef connectivi
ty: a handbook for marine protected area managers. This handbook, co-authored by Geoff Jones, aims to assist MPA managers and others in understanding and applying the concept of connectivity in their work. In this way, it hopes to help managers strengthen their ability to tackle the challenging task of sustaining coastal marine environments.
Coral Disease Handbook: Guidelines for Assessment, Monitoring and Management. Handbook produced by the GEF Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR) Program, includes research undertaken by Centre researcher Professor Bette Willis and others.
Assessing and managing resilience in social-ecological systems: A practitioners workbook. Manual prepared by the Resilience Alliance, a Centre of Excellence partner.
Monitoring functional groups of herbivorous reef fishes as indicators of coral reef resilience: A practical guide of coral reef managers in the Asia Pacific region. Guide produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was written by Alison Green and David Bellwood. It provides practical advice to field practitioners based on an example from the Asia Pacific Region. Key functional groups of herbivores are identified, species are assigned to each functional group, and methods are provided for monitoring their abundance, biomass and size structure.
Policy Brief: Promoting collaborative management of small-scale fisheries in the tropics
. Collaborative (co-) management provides resource users with a greater say in making and enforcing rules for small scale fisheries. When properly implemented, comanagement can help to sustain fisheries and the livelihoods of people that depend on the ocean. Co-management is most successful when key socioeconomic, contextual, and institutional conditions are in place. These conditions are highlighted in this policy brief by Joshua Cinnner and Tim McClanahan.
What is coral bleaching? How does it affect the Great Barrier Reef? This short information sheet will answer your questions in a clear and concise way.
Key principles and research findings in marine resources management. The following presentations were given by Professor Terry Hughes during a series of workshops in collaboration with Queensland Parks and Wildlife (QPW). Click on the images to download .pdf versions.
Crown Of Thorns Starfish. Presentation by Terry Hughes.
An Environmental History of Human Impacts on Coral Reefs. Presentation by Terry Hughes.
Fish-Exclusion Experiment. Presentation by Terry Hughes.
What are the Benefits of No-Take Zones? How Do They Work? Presentation by Terry Hughes.
Ecosystem Effects of Overfishing. Presentation by Terry Hughes.
The Achilles heel of coral growth is high temperatures, not ocean acidification, according to researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and The University of Western Austral
A new study has ingeniously reconstructed a 103-year record of the Queensland east coast Spanish Mackerel spawning fishery, and revealed that catch rates have declined by 70 per cent over the past 80
Scientists have discovered that a fish species has evolved highly specialised self-lubricating lips to help them feed from razor-sharp corals. Professor David Bellwood, from the ARC Centre of Excel
The future of the world’s coral reefs hangs in the balance, but it is not too late to save them, according to a major study published today in the prestigious journal, Nature. Scientists say tha
Abstract. Coral reefs are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet and are extremely important ecologically, economically, socially and scientifically. Spurs and grooves are a common feat
Abstract. Conservation problems are inherently complex with effective solutions dependent on the ability to integrate and apply diverse concepts, approaches, and tools. Here, I describe how we have us
Abstract. The finance sector has been attracting significant attention in the media lately for their support, or lack thereof, for projects that are expected to exacerbate the problem of climate chang
Abstract. In response to domination of social impact analyses by economists, a model was developed which was originally referred to as a “non-economic social impact analysis” model, or NESIA. Re
Abstract. Mass mortality of several mollusc species occurs regularly in the summer months in natural and cultured environments worldwide. Termed ‘summer mortality,’ this condition is known to im
Abstract. Shallow-water seascapes are composed of a mosaic of different habitats (e.g. coral reef, seagrass beds, mangroves, macroalgae beds). Many reef-associated fishes use multiple habitat patches
Abstract. The outstanding diversity of flora and fauna of the Indo-Australian Archipelago has captivated the interest of scientists. This region contains the most diverse coral marine ecosystems for a
Abstract. Unprecedented ocean temperatures caused by global warming are leading to mass bleaching events worldwide. Technological interventions have been hypothesised as a means of potentially mitigat
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
