Abstract:
This report presents and discusses the results of a biological survey
of subtidal reefs at the Poor Knights Islands. It was done from July 1983
to January 1984 and represents the work of some 285 scuba dives.
The report is designed to accommodate different levels of interest in
the results and different levels of expertise, from the layman to the
professional biologist. Accordingly, it is divided into several sections.
Chapter 1 contains a general description of habitats, a rationale for the
sampling techniques and a summary of the major findings. Chapters 2 & 3
contain details of the sampling programme, a full description of results
and a discussion. These chapters are more technical in nature than the
first. Finally, the Appendix contains information about the abundances of
individual species, statistical models used for analyses, and a previous
report (1982) on fish populations.