Part of the regional summaries: Australia (GBR) - Far North: Green stations (no-take reefs) and Australia (GBR)
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Far Northern GBR (NOAA CRW virtual station)Eleven other CRD dive sites within 5 km shown in orange — click a marker to open its page.
🗺 Detailed map of the Global Reef Expedition dive sites, unnamed reefs 11-122, 11-096, and 11-091, northern Great Barrier Reef (Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation; opens in a new window)
Site description
Setting
Global Reef Expedition station AU96122 on Unnamed Reef 11-096, far northern Great Barrier Reef (-11.4236, 143.9823), surveyed on 24 September 2014, in a Marine National Park (Green) Zone.
Coral cover
- Reference: Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Global Reef Expedition (in situ transect)
- The in situ benthic transects recorded 35% live coral cover against a 37% algal fraction at a survey depth of 7.7 m.
- Transect mean 35 ± 3.8% SE (n = 16 transects; Living Oceans Foundation per-transect benthic data); the headline above is the expedition's station value (the headline weights each depth equally).
Stressors
Regional context only: surveyed about eighteen months before the 2016 mass bleaching, an event that severely bleached hundreds of reefs on the northern Great Barrier Reef (Hughes et al. 2017); 5-year mean annual maximum thermal stress at the Far Northern GBR virtual station is 11.1 degree heating weeks.
Comparisons with other data
No prior survey data from this site. If you would like to share yours, please email us.
Data & links
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Data are from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Global Reef Expedition and Coral Reef Diagnostics.
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