Tropical cyclones in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 1910-1999: A first step towards characterising the disturbance regime

Australian Geographical Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 378-392

  Puotinen, M L ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Disturbance; Geographic information systems (GIS); Hurricane; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CORAL REEF; DISTURBANCE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; GREAT BARRIER REEF; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

EID: 10044295084     PISSN: 00049190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8470.2004.00288.x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Australian Bureau of Meteorology, 2002: Tropical cyclone database for Australia. Published on-line at http://www.bom.gov.au.
2. Baker, W.L., 1992: The landscape ecology of large disturbances in the design and management of nature reserves. Landscape Ecology 7, 181-194.
3. Berkelmans R., 2002: Time-integrated thermal bleaching thresholds of reefs and their variation on the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series 229, 73-82.
4. Connell, J.H., 1997: Disturbance and recovery of coral assemblages. Coral Reefs 16, Supplement S101 -S113.
5. Connell, J.H., Hughes, T.P. and Wallace, C.C., 1997: A 30-year study of coral abundance, recruitment and disturbance at several scales in space and time. Ecological Monographs 67, 461-488.
6. D'Addio, A.C. and Rosholm, M., 2002: Left-censoring in duration data: theory and applications. Working Paper No. 2002-5, Department of Economics, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
7. Done, T.J., 1983: Coral zonation: its nature and significance. In Barnes, D.J. (ed.) Perspectives on Coral Reefs. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Brian Clouston, Hong Kong, 107-153.
8. Done, T.J., 1988: Simulation of recovery of pre-disturbance size structure in populations of Porites spp. damaged by the Crown of Thorns starfish Acanthaster planci. Marine Biology 100, 51-61.
9. Done, T.J., 1992a: Phase shifts in coral reef communities and their ecological significance. Hydrobiologia 247, 121-132.
10. Done, T.J., 1992b: Effects of tropical cyclone waves on ecological and geomorphological structures on the Great Barrier Reef. Continental Shelf Research 12, 859-872.
11. Done, T.J. and Potts, D.C., 1992: Influences of habitat and natural disturbances on contributions of massive Porites corals to reef communities. Marine Biology 114, 479-493.
12. Gunderson, L.H., Holling, C.S., Pritchard, L.Jr. and Peterson, G.D., 2002: Resilience of large-scale resource systems. In: Gunderson, L.H. and Pritchard, L.Jr. (eds) Resilience and the Behavior of Large-scale Systems. Island Press, London, 3-20.
13. Hammer, W.M. and Wolanski, E., 1988: Hydrodynamic forcing functions and biological processes on coral reefs: a status review. Proceedings of the 6th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama, 1, 103-113.
14. Harmelin-Vivien, M.L., 1994: The effects of storms and cyclones on coral reefs: a review. Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 12, 211-231.
15. Holland, G.J., 1981: On the quality of the Australian tropical cyclone database. Australian Meteorological Magazine 29, 169-181.
16. Holland, G.J., 1984: On the climatology and structure of tropical cyclones in the Australian/southwest Pacific region: I. Data and tropical storms. Australian Meteorological Magazine 32, 1-15.
17. Hopley, D., 1974: Storm surge. The Australian Geographer 12, 462-468.
18. Hughes, T.P. and Connell, J.H., 1999: Multiple stressors on coral reefs: a long-term perspective. Limnology and Oceanography 44, 932-940.
19. King, B.A., McAllister, F, Wolanski, E.J., Done, T.J. and Spagnol, S., 2001: River plume dynamics in the central Great Barrier Reef. In Wolanski, E.J. (ed.) Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs: Physical and Biological Links in the Great Barrier Reef. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 145-160.
20. Lirman, D. and Fong, P., 1997: Susceptibility of coral communities to storm intensity, duration, and frequency. Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama, 1, 561-566.
21. Massel, S.R. and Done, T.J., 1993: Effects of cyclone waves on massive coral assemblages on the Great Barrier Reef: meteorology, hydrodynamics, and demography. Coral Reefs 12, 153-166.
22. McBride, J.L. and Keenan, T.D., 1982: Climatology of tropical cyclone genesis in the Australian region. Journal of Climatology 2, 13-33.
23. Moran, P.J., 1986: The Acanthaster phenomenon. Oceanography and Marine Biology an Annual Review 24, 379-480.
24. Nystrom, M., Folke, C. and Moberg, F., 2000: Coral reef disturbance and resilience in a human-dominated environment. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15, 413-417.
25. Puotinen, M.L., Done, T.J. and Skelly, W.C., 1997: An atlas of tropical cyclones in the Great Barrier Reef Region, 1969-1997. CRC Reef Research Centre Technical Report No. 19, Townsville, Australia.
26. Scoffin, T.P., 1993: The geological effects of hurricanes on coral reefs and the interpretation of storm deposits. Coral Reefs 12, 203-221.
27. Sebens, K.P., 1994: Biodiversity of coral reefs: what are we losing and why? American Zoologist 34, 115-133.
28. Simpson, R.H. and Riehl, H., 1981: The Hurricane and its Impact. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
29. Singer, J.D. and Willett, J.B., 1991: Modeling the days of our lives: using survival analysis when designing and analyzing longitudinal studies of the duration and timing of events. Quantitative Methods in Pyschology 110, 268-290.
30. Sweatman, H., Bass, D., Cheal, A., Coleman, G., Miller, I., Ninio, R., Osbourne, K., Oxley, W., Ryan, D., Thomson, A. and Tomkins, P., 1998: Long Term Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef. Australian Institute of Marine Science Status Report No. 3, Cape Ferguson, Queensland.
31. Treml, E., Colgan, M. and Keevican, M., 1997: Hurricane disturbance and coral reef development: a Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis of 501 years of hurricane data from the Lesser Antilles. Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama 1, 541-546.
32. Van Woesik, R., 1992: Contemporary disturbances to coral communities of the Great Barrier Reef. Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 12: Coastal Hazards, 233-252.
33. Van Woesik, R., 2002: Processes regulating coral communities. Comments on Theoretical Biology 7, 201-214.
34. Van Woesik, R., Ayling, A.R. and Mapstone, B., 1991: Impact of Tropical Cyclone Ivor on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Coastal Research 7, 551-558.
35. Van Woesik, R.V., De Vantier, L.M. and Glazebrook, J.S., 1995: Effects of Cyclone Joy on nearshore coral communities of the Great Barrier Reef. Marine Ecology Progress Series 128, 261-270.
36. Woodley, J.D., 1992: The incidence of hurricanes on the north coast of Jamaica since 1870: are the classic reef descriptions atypical? Hydrobiologia 247, 133-138.
37. Xue, Z. and Neumann, C.J., 1984: Frequency and Motion of Western Northern Pacific Tropical Cyclones. US National Hurricane Center, Coral Gables, Florida.
38. Young, I.R., 1988: Parametric hurricane wave prediction model. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering 114, 637-652.
39. Young, I.R. and Hardy, T.A., 1993: Measurement and modelling of tropical cyclone waves in the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 12, 85-95.
40. Zar, J.H., 1996: Biostatistical Analysis. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey.