AIMS reef monitoring - new articles and report

[Kate Osborne]

There is some new material on the AIMS reef monitoring web page.

http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/reef-monitoring/cots02/cots02.htm
This article summarizes some published information on the relationship
between Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) and the coral that they prey upon.
Includes a 6MB movie of Rib Reef before, during and one year after a COTS
outbreak.

http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/reef-monitoring/coral-diseases/diseasecp.html
In this article we publish some summary results of reef monitoring surveys
of "white syndrome" and black band disease on Great Barrier Reef (GBR)
survey reefs.

http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/reef-monitoring/ltm/northis/01-northcontents.htm
A  report detailing the results of a baseline survey of the Northumberland
Islands (southern GBR). The url below is a link to three small quicktime
movies showing the general habitat at three islands where video surveys
were conducted.

movie link

http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/research/reef-monitoring/ltm/northis/figure4.htm

Kate Osborne
Reef Monitoring
A.I.M.S
P.M.B 3, Townsville MC, 4810
ph 61 7 47534354
fax 61 7 47534288
www.aims.gov.au/reef-monitoring

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