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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Great Barrier Reef
    sub title: an environmental history
  name:
    name part: Daley, Ben.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 253 pages).
  abstract: The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine park. This book provides an original account of the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history research. It documents and explains the main human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef since European settlement in the region, focusing particularly on the century from 1860 to 1960 which has not previously been fully documented, yet which was a period of unprecedented exploitation of the ecosystem and its resources. The book describes the main changes in coral reefs, islands and marine wildlife that resulted from those impacts. In more recent decades, human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef have spread, accelerated and intensified, with implications for current management and conservation practices. There is now better scientific understanding of the threats faced by the ecosystem. Yet these modern challenges occur against a background of historical levels of exploitation that is little-known, and that has reduced the ecosystem's resilience. The author provides a compelling narrative of how one of the world's most iconic and vulnerable ecosystems has been exploited and degraded, but also how some early conservation practices emerged.
  note: Ben Daley.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at-qn
    geographic code: u-at---
  subject:
    geographic: Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
  subject:
    topic: Coral reef ecology
    geographic: Australia
    geographic: Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)
  subject:
    topic: Coral reefs and islands
    geographic: Australia
  subject:
    topic: NATURE
    topic: Animals
    topic: Wildlife
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Microscopes & Microscopy
  subject:
    topic: Coral reef ecology
  subject:
    topic: Coral reefs and islands
  subject:
    geographic: Australia
  subject:
    geographic: Queensland
    geographic: Great Barrier Reef
  classification: QE566.G7 D35 2014eb
  classification: 578.77/89476
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    origin info:
      publisher: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014
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  identifier: 9781135934415
  identifier: 113593441X
  identifier: 1306973236
  identifier: 9781306973236
  identifier: 628574 MIL
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 140719
    record change date: 20250816212907.9
    record identifier: in00003535913
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng