The Great Barrier Reef [electronic resource] : an environmental history / Ben Daley.

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Daley, Ben

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TextLanguage: English Series: Earthscan oceansPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 253 p.) : ill., mapsISBN:

9780203545928 (ebook : PDF)

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Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Reconstructing changes in the Great Barrier Reef -- 3. The natural context of changes in the Great Barrier Reef -- 4. The spread of European settlement in coastal Queensland -- 5. The beche-de-mer, pearl-shell and trochus fisheries -- 6. Impacts on marine turtles -- 7. Impacts on dugongs -- 8. Impact on whales, sharks and fish -- 9. The impacts of guano and rock phosphate mining -- 11. The impacts of coral mining -- 12. Other impacts on coral reefs -- 13. Changes in island biota -- 14. Conclusion.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	National Library of India			Available		EBK000011659ENG

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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