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Dugong and Great Barrier Reef

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Difference between Dugong and Great Barrier Reef

Dugong vs. Great Barrier Reef

The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a medium-sized marine mammal. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

Similarities between Dugong and Great Barrier Reef

Dugong and Great Barrier Reef have 23 things in common (in Unionpedia): Aboriginal Australians, Algae, Australia, Climate change, Cooperative Research Centre, Ecotourism, Fishing industry, Great Barrier Reef, Habitat destruction, Halodule, Halophila, Herbicide, Mangrove, Oil spill, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Seagrass, Sedimentation, Stingray, Torres Strait, Torres Strait Islanders, Trawling, UNESCO.

Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).

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Algae

Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Climate change

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).

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Cooperative Research Centre

Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) are an Australian Federal Government program and are key bodies for Australian scientific research.

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Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving visiting fragile, pristine, and relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as a low-impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial mass tourism.

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Fishing industry

The fishing industry includes any industry or activity concerned with taking, culturing, processing, preserving, storing, transporting, marketing or selling fish or fish products.

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered unable to support the species present.

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Halodule

Halodule is a genus of plants in the family Cymodoceaceae described as a genus in 1841.

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Halophila

Halophila is a genus of seagrasses in the family Hydrocharitaceae, the tape-grasses.

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Herbicide

Herbicides, also commonly known as weedkillers, are chemical substances used to control unwanted plants.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Seagrass

Seagrasses are flowering plants (angiosperms) belonging to four families (Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae and Cymodoceaceae), all in the order Alismatales (in the class of monocotyledons), which grow in marine, fully saline environments.

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Sedimentation

Sedimentation is the tendency for particles in suspension to settle out of the fluid in which they are entrained and come to rest against a barrier.

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Stingray

Stingrays are a group of sea rays, which are cartilaginous fish related to sharks.

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Torres Strait

The Torres Strait is a strait which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

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Torres Strait Islanders

Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of the Torres Strait Islands, part of Queensland, Australia.

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Trawling

Trawling is a method of fishing that involves pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Dugong and Great Barrier Reef Comparison

Dugong has 249 relations, while Great Barrier Reef has 220. As they have in common 23, the Jaccard index is 4.90% = 23 / (249 + 220).

References

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