Managers and Scientists Work Together
Added to website: 12 September 2007
Climate change is recognised as the greatest long-term threat to the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs worldwide. Projections show sea and air temperatures will continue to increase, sea level is rising, the ocean is becoming more acidic, intense storms and rainfall will become more frequent and ocean currents will change.
Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef: A Vulnerability Assessment, is a peer-reviewed publication compiled as a collaboration between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and over 80 leading climate and tropical marine experts. It provides expert assessments of the vulnerability of Great Barrier Reef species, habitats and key processes to climate change and identifies management responses to the climate change challenge.
Managers and scientists will find this book valuable as a basis on which future decisions can be made, as well as anyone with an interest in tropical marine ecosystems.For a free copy of /Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef: A Vulnerability Assessment /(book or CD) contact:
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
PO Box 1379
Townsville QLD 4810
Australia
+61-7-4750-0700
or chapters can be downloaded from the website:www.gbrmpa.gov.au
