Waterhouse, Jane, Pearson, Richard, Lewis, Stephen, Davis, Aaron, and Waltham, Nathan (2024) Great Barrier Reef Ecohydrology. In: Wolanski, Eric, and Kingsford, Michael J., (eds.) Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, pp. 105-125.

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Abstract

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is an iconic and highly valued marine protected area in Queensland, Australia that is recognised internationally for its natural and cultural values. It is one of the largest coral reef systems in the world (348,000 km2) and contains extensive areas of soft-bottom, seagrass, and mangrove communities. It hosts a range of megafauna including whales, dolphins, dugongs, turtles, sharks, and large fish and supports both commercial and recreational fisheries (GBRMPA 2019). The adjacent catchment area (424,000 km2; McCloskey et al. 2021) includes an extensive network of freshwater ecosystems. The total system incorporates the landscape and seascape from the catchment to the reef and beyond, including the terrestrial catchment, rivers, streams, coastal floodplain wetlands, estuaries, islands, reefs and inter-reefal areas, the continental slope, and deep oceanic waters (Creighton et al. 2021) (Figure 1). This interconnected system is critical to the continued condition and resilience of the GBR and is described by Brodie and Pearson (2016) as the ‘GBR province’.

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Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	9781003320425
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