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The Great Barrier Reef : an environmental history / Ben Daley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Earthscan oceansPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan from Routledge, 2014Description: xv, 253 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415824392 (hbk : alk. paper)
  • 0415824397 (hbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version: No titleLOC classification:
  • QE566.G7 D35 2014
Contents:
Introduction -- Reconstructing changes in the Great Barrier Reef -- The natural context of changes in the Great Barrier Reef -- The historical context of changes in the Great Barrier Reef -- The spread of European settlement in coastal Queensland -- The bêche-de-mer, pearl-shell and trochus fisheries -- Impacts on marine turtles -- Impacts on dugongs -- Impacts on whales, sharks and fish -- The impacts of coral and shell collecting -- The impacts of guano and rock phosphate mining -- The impacts of coral mining -- Other impacts on coral reefs -- Changes in island biota -- Conclusion.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Circulating Book Collection Circulating Book Collection Albright College Library Stacks General collection 578.789 D141g 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31856002454005
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Reconstructing changes in the Great Barrier Reef -- The natural context of changes in the Great Barrier Reef -- The historical context of changes in the Great Barrier Reef -- The spread of European settlement in coastal Queensland -- The bêche-de-mer, pearl-shell and trochus fisheries -- Impacts on marine turtles -- Impacts on dugongs -- Impacts on whales, sharks and fish -- The impacts of coral and shell collecting -- The impacts of guano and rock phosphate mining -- The impacts of coral mining -- Other impacts on coral reefs -- Changes in island biota -- Conclusion.

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