Marine Ecology Progress Series 397:279
... Solenosmilia variabilis, a widely distributed species in the southwest Pacific Ocean (Freiwald et al. 2004, Tittensor et al. 2009), can cover large areas on seamounts (Koslow et al. 2001, Clark & Rowden 2009). Coral thickets provide structural habitat for diverse communities of sessile and mobile fa ...
... Solenosmilia variabilis, a widely distributed species in the southwest Pacific Ocean (Freiwald et al. 2004, Tittensor et al. 2009), can cover large areas on seamounts (Koslow et al. 2001, Clark & Rowden 2009). Coral thickets provide structural habitat for diverse communities of sessile and mobile fa ...
Biology and Ecology of the Invasive Lionfishes, Pterois miles and
... based on reports for P. lunulata (Mito and Uchida 1958; Mito 1963). The specific planktonic larval duration of lionfish is also unknown, although Hare and Whitfield (2003) estimated it to be between 25 to 40 days based estimates for Scorpaena (Laidig and Sakuma 1998). Dispersal of lionfish presumabl ...
... based on reports for P. lunulata (Mito and Uchida 1958; Mito 1963). The specific planktonic larval duration of lionfish is also unknown, although Hare and Whitfield (2003) estimated it to be between 25 to 40 days based estimates for Scorpaena (Laidig and Sakuma 1998). Dispersal of lionfish presumabl ...
Abalone - Department of Fisheries
... distinguish abalone species from other marine snails. Abalone expel water that have passed through their gills through these holes. As abalone grow, these holes progressively close-up, with usually only the last four to six holes remaining open when they reach full-size. There are 11 abalone species ...
... distinguish abalone species from other marine snails. Abalone expel water that have passed through their gills through these holes. As abalone grow, these holes progressively close-up, with usually only the last four to six holes remaining open when they reach full-size. There are 11 abalone species ...
Impact of environmental changes on Oculina patagonica coral holobiont Esther Rubio Portillo
... systematically, into non-reef-building (ahermatypic) corals and reef-building (hermatypic), with most hermatypic corals belonging to the Order Scleractinian. Until recently, corals have been considered as a product of a mutualistic interaction between the coral animal and unicellular algal symbionts ...
... systematically, into non-reef-building (ahermatypic) corals and reef-building (hermatypic), with most hermatypic corals belonging to the Order Scleractinian. Until recently, corals have been considered as a product of a mutualistic interaction between the coral animal and unicellular algal symbionts ...
3rd International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals
... field trip scheduled in the same time in the Dominican Republic, not too far from Miami. This conflict of schedule did not allow me to be with you all today. However, my thoughts are with you for achieving the goal of preventing biodiversity decline. The ecosystem collapse can be caused by habitat d ...
... field trip scheduled in the same time in the Dominican Republic, not too far from Miami. This conflict of schedule did not allow me to be with you all today. However, my thoughts are with you for achieving the goal of preventing biodiversity decline. The ecosystem collapse can be caused by habitat d ...
Status of Coral Reefs in East Asian Seas Region
... (ICRI) strategy on research and monitoring determined in the ‘Call to Action’ developed in Dumaguete City, The Philippines in 1995 which promotes cooperation among national research programs and monitoring networks. Responding to the ‘Call to Action’, the Ministry of the Environment o ...
... (ICRI) strategy on research and monitoring determined in the ‘Call to Action’ developed in Dumaguete City, The Philippines in 1995 which promotes cooperation among national research programs and monitoring networks. Responding to the ‘Call to Action’, the Ministry of the Environment o ...
Cold-water coral reefs
... confined to shallow and warm tropical and subtropical regions. Scientists have been able to explore a variety of coral ecosystems thriving in deep, dark and cold waters, currently most studied at high latitudes. Some of these cold-water corals construct banks or reefs as complex as their tropical co ...
... confined to shallow and warm tropical and subtropical regions. Scientists have been able to explore a variety of coral ecosystems thriving in deep, dark and cold waters, currently most studied at high latitudes. Some of these cold-water corals construct banks or reefs as complex as their tropical co ...
THE CORAL SEA MARINE RESERVE: CENTRE FOR
... The Coral Sea Marine Reserve contains Australia’s largest Marine National Park Zone which extends over 51% of the Marine Reserve (Figure 1). This is one of the few places in the world where such a large marine sanctuary for relatively intact tropical marine life can be established making the conserv ...
... The Coral Sea Marine Reserve contains Australia’s largest Marine National Park Zone which extends over 51% of the Marine Reserve (Figure 1). This is one of the few places in the world where such a large marine sanctuary for relatively intact tropical marine life can be established making the conserv ...
Essential Fish Habitat Assessment Revised Final Report – May 2014
... 3.1.3.1 Currently Harvested Coral Reef Taxa Complex ......................................................................... 3-18 3.1.3.2 Figures and Maps ...................................................................................................................... 3-18 3.1.3.3 Potentially ...
... 3.1.3.1 Currently Harvested Coral Reef Taxa Complex ......................................................................... 3-18 3.1.3.2 Figures and Maps ...................................................................................................................... 3-18 3.1.3.3 Potentially ...
the TRACES Science Plan (Nov 2009)
... TRACES is an international initiative bringing Atlantic cold-water coral researchers together for both scientific and pragmatic purposes. There are more coral species in deep, cold waters than in tropical coral reefs. Of the many cold-water corals in the deep sea a few produce large, complex and lon ...
... TRACES is an international initiative bringing Atlantic cold-water coral researchers together for both scientific and pragmatic purposes. There are more coral species in deep, cold waters than in tropical coral reefs. Of the many cold-water corals in the deep sea a few produce large, complex and lon ...
Mise en page 1 - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
... tally affect the currents that drive all marine ecosystems and species, on evolutionary and ecological scales. Due to the location of Madagascar and the Mascarene Plateau in the path of the South Equatorial Current, and of the Asian monsoon system with its opposing trade winds, the Western Indian Oc ...
... tally affect the currents that drive all marine ecosystems and species, on evolutionary and ecological scales. Due to the location of Madagascar and the Mascarene Plateau in the path of the South Equatorial Current, and of the Asian monsoon system with its opposing trade winds, the Western Indian Oc ...
Assessing marine world heritage from an ecosystem
... tally affect the currents that drive all marine ecosystems and species, on evolutionary and ecological scales. Due to the location of Madagascar and the Mascarene Plateau in the path of the South Equatorial Current, and of the Asian monsoon system with its opposing trade winds, the Western Indian Oc ...
... tally affect the currents that drive all marine ecosystems and species, on evolutionary and ecological scales. Due to the location of Madagascar and the Mascarene Plateau in the path of the South Equatorial Current, and of the Asian monsoon system with its opposing trade winds, the Western Indian Oc ...
Report of the Working Group on Deep
... latter has led to an increase in public concern about impacts, and a corresponding increase in requests to ICES for advice. In the recent past ICES has provided advice on cold-water corals and in the current year a request has arrived from OSPAR on seamounts. It is likely that requests in this area ...
... latter has led to an increase in public concern about impacts, and a corresponding increase in requests to ICES for advice. In the recent past ICES has provided advice on cold-water corals and in the current year a request has arrived from OSPAR on seamounts. It is likely that requests in this area ...
Longhurst, A. and D. Pauly. 1987. Ecology of Tropical Oceans
... In fact, as we shall discuss below, while spawning of tropical fish is often more protracted than that of temperate fish, it is usually concentrated in one or two periods each year. Also we must remember that it is not necessarily the fluctuations of spawning themselves that generate the peaks and t ...
... In fact, as we shall discuss below, while spawning of tropical fish is often more protracted than that of temperate fish, it is usually concentrated in one or two periods each year. Also we must remember that it is not necessarily the fluctuations of spawning themselves that generate the peaks and t ...
Deep-Sea Corals: Special Issue of Current, the Journal of Marine
... depths. These deep-sea “forests” of gorgonian corals and reefs of stony corals were nearly unknown to science just a few years ago. But now scientists are finding that some of the sea’s most biologically diverse ecosystems are coral communities occurring far below depths where people used to think t ...
... depths. These deep-sea “forests” of gorgonian corals and reefs of stony corals were nearly unknown to science just a few years ago. But now scientists are finding that some of the sea’s most biologically diverse ecosystems are coral communities occurring far below depths where people used to think t ...
zmt Report 2011/2012
... of the departmental structure was followed by the development of new concepts for the ZMT’s strategies on the intensification of exchange and cooperation, for thirdparty funding acquisition and capacity building. Routines and guidelines were revised to optimise processes including the training of do ...
... of the departmental structure was followed by the development of new concepts for the ZMT’s strategies on the intensification of exchange and cooperation, for thirdparty funding acquisition and capacity building. Routines and guidelines were revised to optimise processes including the training of do ...
Monitoring the Vulnerability and Adaptation of Pacific Coastal
... This study highlighted a number of challenges associated with monitoring the impacts of climate change in the Pacific region, most notably challenges associated with the need to understand large scale processes (e.g. oceanographic processes) and how these influence a range of biological and ecologic ...
... This study highlighted a number of challenges associated with monitoring the impacts of climate change in the Pacific region, most notably challenges associated with the need to understand large scale processes (e.g. oceanographic processes) and how these influence a range of biological and ecologic ...
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems - UNEP Document Repository Home
... services they provide. The biodiversity of MCEs is comparable to that of shallow reefs, yet there are also unique species that are found only in MCEs and/or deeper water. Table 1 shows key differences between MCEs and shallow reefs. While buffered from some of the natural and anthropogenic threats f ...
... services they provide. The biodiversity of MCEs is comparable to that of shallow reefs, yet there are also unique species that are found only in MCEs and/or deeper water. Table 1 shows key differences between MCEs and shallow reefs. While buffered from some of the natural and anthropogenic threats f ...
Doherty et al. 2017. SciRep
... improbable due to increasing levels of information from electronic tags 19,36,37. Sims et al. (2003)19 ...
... improbable due to increasing levels of information from electronic tags 19,36,37. Sims et al. (2003)19 ...
Behavioral evidence suggests facultative scavenging by a marine
... Raine Island (11° 35′ S, 144° 02′ E) is situated about ∼80 km off northern Australia within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The nesting season for green turtles occurs during the austral summer, peaking from November through April, when as many as 12,000 turtles may nest on just 32 ha of beach ( ...
... Raine Island (11° 35′ S, 144° 02′ E) is situated about ∼80 km off northern Australia within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The nesting season for green turtles occurs during the austral summer, peaking from November through April, when as many as 12,000 turtles may nest on just 32 ha of beach ( ...
Mesoamerican Caribbean Reef - the ERI Publication Repository
... Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System as embodied in the Tulum Declaration. We appreciate the financial support of the Summit Foundation and the Ocean Fund. Most of the information necessary for describing, delineating, and prioritizing biodiversity areas of the MACR originated in the priority-setting ex ...
... Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System as embodied in the Tulum Declaration. We appreciate the financial support of the Summit Foundation and the Ocean Fund. Most of the information necessary for describing, delineating, and prioritizing biodiversity areas of the MACR originated in the priority-setting ex ...
The role of macroalgae and the corallivorous fireworm Hermodice
... high algal abundance and highlight the complex interactions between corallivores, algae and scleractinian corals on present-day reefs. The objectives of my thesis derive from the urgency to advance scientific knowledge of major stressors of present-day reefs and their influence on coral reef resilie ...
... high algal abundance and highlight the complex interactions between corallivores, algae and scleractinian corals on present-day reefs. The objectives of my thesis derive from the urgency to advance scientific knowledge of major stressors of present-day reefs and their influence on coral reef resilie ...
The impact of urbanisation on coral reef ecosystems
... who one way or another has helped me during the course of my PhD. I surely could not have completed this task without them. More detailed acknowledgments related to the scientific papers presented are provided in chapters 3 to 5. The following is a list of people and/or entities that I wish to ackno ...
... who one way or another has helped me during the course of my PhD. I surely could not have completed this task without them. More detailed acknowledgments related to the scientific papers presented are provided in chapters 3 to 5. The following is a list of people and/or entities that I wish to ackno ...
Odor tracking in sharks is reduced under future ocean acidification conditions
... sources near the bottom at the upstream end of the flume. The mean current velocity, measured visually with Rhodamine B dye, in the cross-sectional center of the flume was ~1.5 m min 1. Prior to any experiments, these plumes were visualized and video recorded with 0.1 g l 1 of Rhodamine B dye dissol ...
... sources near the bottom at the upstream end of the flume. The mean current velocity, measured visually with Rhodamine B dye, in the cross-sectional center of the flume was ~1.5 m min 1. Prior to any experiments, these plumes were visualized and video recorded with 0.1 g l 1 of Rhodamine B dye dissol ...
