"This study addresses the coupled themes of science and conservation by characterizing and evaluating the coral reefs around Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. Reef types, and the inherent environmental regimes they constitute, were found to be good pre...

"The squaretail coralgrouper Plectropomus areolatus was identified as a fast-growing, early maturing and relatively short-lived aggregation-spawning epinephelid. Examinations of sectioned otoliths found females and males first maturing at 2 and 3?years, r...