出版社：Government of Western Australia / Department of Fisheries
摘要：The geomorphology of Cockburn Sound is unique to the lower west coast of Australia
due to the relative paucity of sheltered nearshore marine embayments along this coastline.
Numerous studies on many of the commercially and/or recreationally important species that
inhabit Cockburn Sound have demonstrated that for many of them this marine embayment
constitutes an integral part of their life history. Since the commencement of industrial and
urban development in the mid 1950s, in the waters and along the shores of Cockburn Sound,
the marine fauna utilising this area have been exposed to ongoing changes in environmental
quality. These detrimental, anthropogenic influences have impacted on many attributes that
affect the faunal composition, including, for example, habitat alteration and/or loss.
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