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Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses

2015

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Examining Changes In Seafloor Communities At The Landscape Scale Around The Capricorn Bunker Group, Southern Gbr, James W. Holland Jan 2015

Examining Changes In Seafloor Communities At The Landscape Scale Around The Capricorn Bunker Group, Southern Gbr, James W. Holland

Science, Medicine & Health - Honours Theses

The aim of this honors project was to map changes in the sea floor communities at the regional scale within the Capricorn Bunker Group between the years of 2001 and 2014. The Capricorn Bunker Group is located at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef near 30⁰ south and 150⁰ east and consists of 16 islands with 22 reefs, with 8 of these islands being vegetated and little in the way of topographic relief (Queensland Government, 2014).

This project accomplished its aim through a three stage method after the second set of benthic community ground coverage data had been …