ecosystem at risk that has been studied is the coral reef; The Great Barrier Reef is located off the East coast of Northern Queensland. It stretches approximately 2300km from Papua New Guinea to Fraser Island. Overall the Great Barrier Reef system covers an area of over 348‚000km2 making a vast‚ very complex ecosystem. There is a long history of human activity and use on and of the Great Barrier Reef. Negative impacts on the Great Barrier Reef include climate change‚ oil spills‚ tourism‚ overfishing
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Deteriorating Great Barrier Reef Australian government officials in the last few years have been taking the protection of the Great Barrier Reef into their own hands. After creating an eye on the reef program‚ which specifically targeted the health of the Great Barrier Reef‚ scientists created algae killing bleach that would be applied to infected sections of the reef. Practices worked well until 2014 after a double dose of the bleach. After many tourist encounters with the reef a few individuals took
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1. Threats to the Great Barrier Reef \What are the threats to the Great Barrier Reef?\ In contemporary‚ the Great Barrier Reef has emerged numerous threats to the situation‚ in spite of the fact that it fetches billions of dollars into national economy from over two million tourists and over 700 tourism operators every year and supports more than 50 000 jobs. Furthermore ‚ (“Great Barrier Reef‚”2009) 2.1 Threats to the Great Barrier Reef of human factor One of the part of the risk
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functional unit. The Great Barrier Reef‚ an ecosystem that is particularly at risk‚ is a long‚ narrow system that stretches for 2000km along the northeast Australian coast. The formation of this ecosystem is attributed to the dynamics of weather and climate‚ and the geomorphic‚ hydrologic and Biogeographical processes within the region. The atmospheric processes encountered within the Great Barrier Reef are ultimately responsible for shaping the reef ecosystem. The reef‚ which lies within Australia’s
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500 kilometres long. Islands and Reefs A coral reef is an accumulation of dead corals and other organisms with a limestone skeleton. This is then cemented together by physical processes and the reef builds slowly to the surface of the water. The world ’s
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mainland species‚ allowing animals there to evolve separately. Great Barrier Reef‚ Australia Chapter 5. Corals are an outstanding example of symbiosis‚ in which a coral polyp (an animal) and an alga (which photosynthesizes) live together and benefit each other. Together‚ these partners build some of the largest structures created by any living organism. The Great Barrier Reef is the longest coral reef in the world. Coral reefs are renowned for the diversity‚ beauty‚ and the economic importance of the
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Thorns Starfish (Acanthaster planci) are found on coral reefs in the tropics ranging from the Red Sea‚ the Indian and Pacific Oceans‚ and all the way to the Pacific coast of Panama. It plays a major role in the destruction of fast growing coral species. Scientists believe that this starfish has lived on the reefs for tens of thousands of years and when the populations of this echinoderm increase in number‚ they can seriously damage the coral reefs. The Crown of Thorns Starfish has 16 to 18 arms and
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near Darwin and the Great Barrier Reef which is found off the coast of Brisbane in Australia. But due to Global Warming and human impacts‚ these ecosystems are now at risk. Species Diversity and Genetic Diversity The Great Barrier Reef is located of the coast of Brisbane in Australia‚ stretching from the tip from Cape York Peninsula to Bundaberg with the length of 2 600km. It is the largest world’s largest coral reef system composed from over 2 900 individual reefs and covering an area of 344 400km2
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Ever since the 1960’s‚ The Crown of Thorns Starfish have been destroying our magnificent Great Barrier Reef. Biotic factors are a major consideration of the outbreak of the Crown of Thorns‚ lack of predators and their high fertilization rate plays a massive role in this overwhelming amount of starfish. The main predator the COT meets is the giant triton snail1. But because of recent population problems making the predators lacking in numbers they have no way of reducing the crown of thorns population
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of Canberra‚ and Flinders Ranges‚ the largest mountain range in South Australia. The fourth physical factor is the reefs in Australia. The most well known reef in Australia is the Great Barrier Reef‚ Australia’s greatest gift from nature. It consists of a lot of marine life and consists of over 3000 individual reef system. I would not miss this chance to see the world’s largest reef if I were to go on a vacation to Australia. The fifth physical factor‚which is the last‚ is the rivers. The rivers
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