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From coral trout and snapper to wrasses, butterflyfish, and damselfish - the inshore reef habitats of Great Barrier Reef islands are known for their complex and rich fish communities.This month, our scientists are conducting visual surveys of reef fishes and benthic habitats of eight inshore island groups in the Great Barrier Reef, building on a 20-year long-term monitoring program at four of the island groups and four new monitoring sites.The island reefs surveyed are high-value and high-use fo
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[Image: The Super Sucker in action].A vacuum has been developed that can suck invasive seaweed off of coral reefs. The machine is called the Super Sucker:To create the Super Sucker, biologists modi...
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Recent scholarship has investigated the rate of deterioration of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia since European settlement and the severity of human impacts on that ecosystem. Yet in previous environmental histories of the Great Barrier Reef, the impacts of coral collecting have not been adequately documented.
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Coral bleaching isn't just an ocean crisis. Here's how the global event endangers food security, local jobs-and the land itself.
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