EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Norman C. Duke
Kathryn A. Burns

Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRC Reef Research Centre

Final Report to the Australian Petroleum Production Exploration Association

12 June 1999

An environmental research project with the AUSTRALIAN PETROLEUM PRODUCTION & EXPLORATION ASSOCIATION LIMITED (APPEA)

and the ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (ERDC)

Scientific research conducted under the direction of the COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF (Reef CRC)

and the AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE (AIMS)

Introduction
Australia-wide surveys
Planthouse trials on seedlings

Field experiments
Set up I
Set up II
Hydrocarbon sampling
Impact and recovery of plants
Impact and recovery of fauna

Recommendations
Response to oil spills
Acknowledgements
Authors and  affiliations
Acknowledgements