The Long-Term Monitoring Program begins annual reef surveys
The Australian Institute of Marine Science begins surveying a fixed set of Great Barrier Reef sites with a consistent method every year. Almost every subsequent quantitative claim about whether the reef is declining or recovering rests on this series, because it is long enough and consistent enough for a change to be distinguished from a change in how the reef was looked at.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Australian Institute of Marine Science · institution · Australia
- Great Barrier Reef · geographic_feature · Australia · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
The 27-year decline of coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef and its causes
Mean hard coral cover on surveyed Great Barrier Reef sites fell from 28.0 per cent in 1985 to 13.8 per cent in 2012, with roughly forty-eight per cent of the loss attributed to tropical cyclones, forty-two per cent to crown-of-thorns starfish and ten per cent to bleaching. V55 verification basis: not consulted; the cover figures and the three attribution percentages are stated from the producing model's knowledge of this widely cited result.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, De'ath, Fabricius, Sweatman and Puotinen; data from the AIMS Long-Term Monitoring Program · 2012 · Partly verified
De'ath, G. et al. (2012), PNAS vol. 109 — analysis of the AIMS Long-Term Monitoring Program series 1985-2012.
Recorded on Australian Institute of Marine Science
- The Great Barrier Reef is inscribed on the World Heritage List
- Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef
- The Long-Term Monitoring Program begins annual reef surveys
- A measured decline in Great Barrier Reef coral calcification is published
- Twenty-seven years of monitoring show coral cover roughly halved
- Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
- A second consecutive year of mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
Related
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- A second consecutive year of mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef · 2017
- Mass bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef · 2016-03 to 2016-04
- Twenty-seven years of monitoring show coral cover roughly halved · 2012
- A measured decline in Great Barrier Reef coral calcification is published · 2009-01
- Mass synchronous spawning described on the Great Barrier Reef · 1984
- The Great Barrier Reef is inscribed on the World Heritage List · 1981