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Effects of periodic trampling on rocky intertidal algal beds: Hormosira banksii cover
School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
This study examines the effects of trampling on rocky intertidal platforms dominated by the brown algae Hormosira banksii. This dataset gives the percent cover of Hormosira... -
Effects of introduced species on the recruitment of sessile invertebrates.
School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
This experiment was conducted to determine if an established Botryllus schlosseri colony affected the recruitment of sessile invertebrates. Small perspex plates that had been in... -
Effects of introduced sessile invertebrates: removal experiments.
School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
Three removal experiments were conducted to test the effects of the introduced species, Bugula neritina, Ascidiella aspersa and Botryllus schlosseri on sessile invertebrate... -
Effects of human activities on intertidal gastropods
School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
This data was collected to investigate the relationship between human activities and size distribution of gastropods on rocky shores. It was predicted that there would be a... -
Effects of environmental factors on the distribution of shrimp in Western...
This study investigated the influence of environmental factors on the distribution of shrimp in Western Port Bay from July 1977 to January 1980. Water temperature, salinity and... -
Effect of invasive tagging on the activity behaviour of Holothuria whitmaei...
Data were collected to evaluate the practicality of marking the dorsal tegument as a tagging method for short-term mark-recapture studies of holothurians (Holothuria whitmaei,... -
Ecological studies on seagrasses of SW Australia - Cockburn Sound - Summary
School of Plant Biology (SPB) / UWA Oceans Institute (OI), The University of Western Australia (UWA)
Data was collected from Cockburn Sound to determine: - the past and present distribution of seagrasses; - the 'standing crop' (weight of above-ground material) of seagrass in... -
Ecological studies on seagrasses of SW Australia - Cockburn Sound - Standing Crop
School of Plant Biology (SPB) / UWA Oceans Institute (OI), The University of Western Australia (UWA)
The standing crop (weight of above-ground material) of seagrass at different locations from Cockburn Sound was measured in December 1977. -
Ecological studies on seagrasses of SW Australia - Cockburn Sound - Past Distribution
School of Plant Biology (SPB) / UWA Oceans Institute (OI), The University of Western Australia (UWA)
Data was collected from Cockburn Sound to determine the past and present distribution of seagrasses, including sediment cores. -
Ecological studies on seagrasses of SW Australia - Cockburn Sound - Field...
School of Plant Biology (SPB) / UWA Oceans Institute (OI), The University of Western Australia (UWA)
Two field experiments were carried out on seagrass in the Cockburn Sound area to assess the effect of water quality on seagrass growth. Leaf area was measured before and after... -
Ecological effects of the introduced fanworm, Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin,...
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DEWLP), Victorian Government
Sabella spallanzanii is an introduced sabellid ploychaete that is thought to be native to the Mediterranean and east Atlantic coast. Since its first identification in Port... -
Ecological effects of introduced sessile marine invertebrates.
School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
Manipulative field experiments were used to investigate the effects of the ascidians Botryllus schlosseri and Ascidiella aspersa and the bryozoan Bugula neritina on sessile... -
ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
The ECOCEAN Whale Shark Photo-identification Library is a visual database of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) encounters and of individually catalogued whale sharks. -
Dutton Bay CTD Data 7 December 1998
Ten samples were collected at Dutton Bay using a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) device on 7th December 1998, for analysis of water temperature and salinity data. -
*Draft* Geographic variation in distributions and abundance of coral reef fishes
Australian Institute of Marine Science
This study documents large scale geographic variations in the distribution and abundance of coral reef fishes on outer reef slopes (surface to 13m depth). Transects were... -
*Draft* Carbon turnover and accumulation by coral reefs
Australian Institute of Marine Science
High-precision measurements of changes in oxygen and various parameters of the CO2 system in sea water were used to monitor community metabolism in four Pacific coral reef... -
Do the assemblages of benthic macroinvertebrates in nearshore waters of...
Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research (CFFR), Murdoch University
Benthic macroinvertebrates were sampled seasonally in the subtidal and upper and lower swash zones at two sites in each of six nearshore habitat types on the lower west coast of... -
Diurnal rhythms of activity, sediment egestion and cryptic behaviour of...
The diurnal rates of activity and sediment egestion on three seperate occasions in January, April and August, 2003, and the cryptic behaviour on one occasion in August, 2003... -
Distribution of nearshore bedforms and effects on sand suspension on...
School of Earth and Environment (SEE), The University of Western Australia (UWA)
Field measurements of bed morphologies, hydrodynamics and sediment suspension were made on 15 low energy (Hsig < 0.50 m) micro-tidal sheltered sandy beaches in SW Australia. -
Diets of four shrimp species in eelgrass habitats, Western Port Bay, Victoria
This study examined stomach contents of shrimp sampled in the beam trawls in Western Port Bay from July 1977 to January 1980 (see parent record 'The ecology and trophic role of...