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| Goatley, Christopher H. R.; College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies; christopher.goatley@jcu.edu.au; Fox, Rebecca J.; College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies; Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Australian National University; School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney; rebecca.fox-1@uts.edu.au; Bellwood, David R.; College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies; david.bellwood@jcu.edu.au. |
| Around the world, the decreasing health of coral reef ecosystems has highlighted the need to better understand the processes of reef degradation. The development of more sensitive tools, which complement traditional methods of monitoring coral reefs, may reveal earlier signs of degradation and provide an opportunity for pre-emptive responses. We identify new, sensitive metrics of ecosystem processes and benthic composition that allow us to quantify subtle, yet destabilizing, changes in the ecosystem state of an inshore coral reef on the Great Barrier Reef. Following severe climatic disturbances over the period 2011-2012, the herbivorous reef fish community of the reef did not change in terms of biomass or functional groups present. However, fish-based... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Disturbances; Ecosystem state; Herbivory; Management; Monitoring; Processes; Resilience; Sediment; Thresholds. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Breviere, Emilie H. G.; Bakker, Dorothee C. E.; Bange, Hermann W.; Bates, Timothy S.; Bell, Thomas G.; Boyd, Philip W.; Duce, Robert A.; Garcon, Veronique; Johnson, Martin T.; Law, Cliff S.; Marandino, Christa A.; Olsen, Are; Quack, Birgit; Quinn, Patricia K.; Sabine, Christopher L.; Saltzman, Eric S.. |
| The domain of the surface ocean and lower atmosphere is a complex, highly dynamic component of the Earth system. Better understanding of the physics and biogeochemistry of the air-sea interface and the processes that control the exchange of mass and energy across that boundary define the scope of the Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) project. The scientific questions driving SOLAS research, as laid out in the SOLAS Science Plan and Implementation Strategy for the period 2004-2014, are highly challenging, inherently multidisciplinary and broad. During that decade, SOLAS has significantly advanced our knowledge. Discoveries related to the physics of exchange, global trace gas budgets and atmospheric chemistry, the CLAW hypothesis (named after its... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Ocean; Atmosphere; Processes; Biogeochemistry; Flux; Climate. |
| Ano: 2015 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00293/40405/38964.pdf |
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| Marret, Fabienne; Mertens, Kenneth. |
| Here we present new observations of Spiniferites alaskensis, a relatively rare species described from the Eemian of the Gulf of Alaska. We show that the species shows a gonyaulacacean tabulation: Po, 4´, 6´´, 6c,? s, 6´´´, 1p, 1´´´´. The surface is finely granulate to scabrate. The species bears characteristic processes: these are exclusively gonal, membranous, perforated and end distally in platforms with stumpy ends. We provide more detail as how this species compares to closely related species belonging to the genus Spiniferites. |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Gulf of Alaska; Chorate; Spiniferites; Processes; Eemian; ODP. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00471/58307/60848.pdf |
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| Franks, J.R.; Collis, Jimi. |
| Benchmarking is the practice of establishing the relative performance of a business or enterprise against an appropriate standard, generally industry standards derived from a survey of farms. The Policy Commission into the Future of Farming and Food (2002) highlighted a need to spread and improve benchmarking on farms. The requirements of effective benchmarking are illustrated in a ten step framework. The ten steps illustrate the range of expertise and resources a manager requires before being able to justify allocating resources to benchmarking. A comparison of alternative farm surveys and methodologies used to collect, analyse and report industry standards illustrates the difficulties farmers can have in identifying appropriate, robust and accurate... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Benchmarking; Comparative analysis; Processes; Industry standards; Methodology; Techniques; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24326 |
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