Coral Reefs
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Great Barrier Reef and what it relates to. Every line is an evidence-backed relation, and the arrangement is fixed — this address draws this picture, today and next year.
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- Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef · concerns · Great Barrier Reef
The March-April 2016 surveys covered more than eleven hundred Great Barrier Reef reefs and found the most severe bleaching in the northern third of the system.
- Australian Institute of Marine Science · assesses · Great Barrier Reef
The Long-Term Monitoring Program has surveyed a fixed set of Great Barrier Reef sites with a consistent method every year since 1985.
- Crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster) · affects · Great Barrier Reef
Crown-of-thorns predation was attributed forty-two per cent of the coral cover loss recorded on Great Barrier Reef monitoring sites between 1985 and 2012.
- Coral Triangle · comparable_to · Great Barrier Reef
The Coral Triangle holds roughly three-quarters of the world's coral species across six countries, against a single continuously monitored system under one national jurisdiction.
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority · governs · Great Barrier Reef
The Authority manages the Marine Park under the 1975 Act, principally through a zoning plan covering the whole park rather than selected sites.
- Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System · comparable_to · Great Barrier Reef
The two are the largest barrier reef systems of their respective oceans, and their dominant causes of loss differ — disease in the Caribbean, heat and predation on the Great Barrier Reef.