The Australian Institute of Marine Science' s Long-Term Monitoring Program has released its Annual Update of the Status of the Great Barrier Reef, detailing substantial declines in coral cover from the 2024 mass coral bleaching event

www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-g...

📑 #NewStudy by Bode et al. calculates the ecological and economic benefits of the #GreatBarrierReef’s marine reserves for the region’s most important line #fishery.

👀 https://buff.ly/3WXlFvX

#australia #fish #biology

Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery Marine reserves generate more than half of coral groupers produced on the GBR and half of the fish caught by the fishery.

New paper out today showing the continued benefits of No-Take Marine Reserves on the Great Barrier Reef. Awesome collaboration between AIMS, JCU, QUT, U Tas, Uni of Bristol and the Australian Museum.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Emergent patterns of reef fish diversity correlate with coral assemblage shifts along the Great Barrier Reef - Nature Communications Coral reefs have been severely affected by anthropogenic stress. Using long term data from the Great Barrier Reef, this study found temporal changes in the latitudinal diversity gradient, and stronger...

Great Barrier Reef fish reveal that large-scale macroecological patterns have changed significantly 🐟🐠

We found that changes in latitudinal diversity gradient & rising species turnover were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition

Out now in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41...