Community structure of hermatypic corals at Laysan Island and Lisianski Island/Neva Shoal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: a new layer of scientific exploration
"The distribution and abundance of scleractinian corals at Laysan Island and Lisianski Island/Neva Shoal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands were determined by georeferenced towed-diver surveys that covered more than 56,000 m2 of benthic habitat and site...
Ecological characteristics of coral patch reefs at Midway Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
"Ecological aspects of coral patch reefs were studied from 1981 to 1985 in Welles Harbor, Midway Atoll. Water temperatures varied from 17oC in February to 28C in August. Sizes of reefs studied were described by mean area (59 m2), mean volume (52 m3), vert...
Baseline levels of coral disease in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
"There has been a worldwide increase in the reports of diseases affecting marine organisms. In the Caribbean, mass mortalities among organisms in reef ecosystems have resulted in major shifts in community structure. However, our ability to fully understan...
Dynamics of debris densities and removal at the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands coral reefs
"Previous marine debris studies in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) have focused on the density, type, and tonnage of debris in various reef and island habitats. Cleanup efforts have grown from a single ship working for a small amount of time to m...
Predation, endemism, and related processess structuring shallow reef fish assemblages in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
"Data on distribution, abundance, and related patterns, reflecting key ecological processes such as predation, are herein summarized for the shallow-water (< 18-m) reef fishes of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI). This summary is based on the re...
A rapid assessment of the Horseshoe Reef, Tobago Cays Marine Park, St. Vincent, West Indies (stony corals, algae and fishes)
This study was located in the Tobago Cays, four small, uninhabited islands in St. Vincent-Grenadines that are partially surrounded by fringing reefs. Fore reefs at Horseshoe Reef, Tobago Cays, had an average live stony-coral cover of 30% at 3-4 m and near...
Recovery from the 2004 Coral Bleaching Event in the Gilbert Islands, Kiribati
"Over the past three decades, periods of anomalously warm ocean temperatures have been observed to cause mass coral bleaching, a paling of corals and other reef organisms due to the loss of dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. During late 2004, warming of the sur...
Some Reefs and Corals of Roatan (Honduras), Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman
"The topography, zonation, and coral communities of small sections of the reefs which surround three western Caribbean islands were studied for comparison with well - studied Caribbean reefs of northwestern Roatan (Honduras), an Brac , and northwestern Li...
Ten years of shipboard ADCP measurements along the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
"Ten years of shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler data, resulting in 105 transects along the Hawaiian Ridge, have been analyzed to describe the spatial and temporal variability of the mean currents and vertical shear structure in the vicinity of t...
The role of oceanographic conditions and reef morphology in the 2002 coral bleaching event in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
"Researchers on two research cruises to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) in September 2002 recorded widespread massive coral bleaching, particularly at Kure, Midway, and Pearl and Hermes atolls at the northern end of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Whil...
Community structure of hermatypic corals at Laysan Island and Lisianski Island/Neva Shoal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: a new layer of scientific exploration