Seascape ecology of coastal biogenic habitats: advances, gaps, and challenges
We review the progress made in the emerging field of coastal seascape ecology, i.e. the application of landscape ecology concepts and techniques to the coastal marine environment. Since the early 1990s, the landscape ecology approach has been applied in s...
Special issue of the NOAA National National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of Habitat Conservation newsletter Habitat Connections devoted to deep sea corals. Introduces and defines deep sea corals, and shares facts about their ecosystems, value, m...
The effects of venting and decompression on Yellow Tang (Zebrasoma flavescens) in the marine ornamental aquarium fish trade
"Each year, over 45 countries export 30 million fish from coral reefs as part of the global marine ornamental aquarium trade. This catch volume is partly influenced by collection methods that cause mortality. Barotrauma in fish resulting from forced ascen...
Reefs for the future: Resilience of coral reefs in the main Hawaiian Islands
"Declining health of coral reef ecosystems led scientists to search for factors that support reef resilience: the ability of reefs to resist and recover from environmental disturbance. Scientists recently identified 11 measurable factors that affect the r...
Recruitment processes influence coral population dynamics as well as reef community structure. Coral recruitment is generally determined by one of three methods: artificial settlement plates, small-scale macro photography, or painstaking visual searches i...
Using seascape types to explain the spatial patterns of fish using mangroves in Puerto Rico
"Many of the most abundant fish species using mangroves in the Caribbean also use other habitat types through daily home range movements and ontogenetic habitat shifts. Few studies, however, have considered the structure of the surrounding seascape when e...
Modeling the impacts of bottom trawling and the subsequent recovery rates of sponges and corals in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
"The abundance of some marine fish species are correlated to the abundance of habitat-forming benthic organisms such as sponges and corals. A concern for fisheries management agencies is the recovery of these benthic invertebrates from removal or mortalit...
The state of coral reef ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2005
"The purpose of this report is to provide an assessment of the current condition of coral reef ecosystems in U.S. jurisdictions, including the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Navassa, Florida, Flower Garden Banks and other banks of the Gulf of Mexico, H...
The state of coral reef ecosystems of the United States and Pacific Freely Associated States: 2008
This report is the third in an ongoing series of assessments of the condition of coral reef ecosystems in the United States and Pacific Freely Associated states, and the second report to focus specifically on summarizing the results of coral reef ecosyste...
Seascape ecology of coastal biogenic habitats: advances, gaps, and challenges
"The purpose of this report is to provide an assessment of the current condition of coral reef ecosystems in U.S. jurisdictions, including the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Navassa, Florida, Flower Garden Banks and other banks of the Gulf of Mexico, H...
This report is the third in an ongoing series of assessments of the condition of coral reef ecosystems in the United States and Pacific Freely Associated states, and the second report to focus specifically on summarizing the results of coral reef ecosyste...