The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is a World Heritage Area and contains extensive areas of
coral reef, seagrass meadows and fisheries resources. From adjacent catchments …

Recent estimates put average coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) at about 20–
30%. This is estimated to be a large reduction since the 1960s. The Great Barrier Reef …

The increased occurrence of extreme climate events, such as marine heatwaves (MHWs),
has resulted in substantial ecological impacts worldwide. To date, metrics of thermal stress …

Current scientific consensus is that inshore regions of the central and southern Great Barrier
Reef, Australia, are at risk of impacts from increased nutrient (as well as sediment and …

Seagrasses in the Great Barrier Reef region, particularly in coastal habitats, act as a buffer
between catchment inputs and reef communities and are important habitat for fisheries and …

South–west Australia contains extensive seagrass meadows along 2,500 km of coastline
from the shallow subtidal to 50+ m water depths, and in many of the 51 bar-built estuaries …

Eutrophication as one of the importunate environmental hazards in the aquatic ecosystems
causes pronounced deterioration of the water quality and represents serious threat to the …

Seagrass-Watch is a participatory monitoring program developed in 1998 to provide an
early warning of coastal ecological decline. Anyone can participate in Seagrass-Watch, as it …

Dugongs (Dugong dugon) are listed as vulnerable to extinction due to rapid population
reductions caused in part by loss of seagrass feeding meadows. Understanding dugong …

Run-off containing increased concentrations of sediment, nutrients, and pesticides from land-
based anthropogenic activities is a significant influence on water quality and the ecologic …