Octocoral gardens in the Gulf of Maine (NW Atlantic)
"Octocorals had been considered a common component of the seafloor fauna in the Gulf of Maine, but it appears a century of impacts have reduced coral distribution to small refugia. Here we provide a preliminary report of a recent expedition that discovere...
Monitoring and Evaluation of Reef Protected Areas by Local Fishers in the Philippines: Tightening the Adaptive Management Cycle
Monitoring by local community managers tightens the adaptive management cycle by linking management more closely with its evaluation, so management actions become more responsive to the field situation. Local community volunteers, usually fishers, managin...
Community involvement in management for maintaining coral reef resilience and biodiversity in southern Caribbean marine protected areas
"Climate change is posing new challenges to conservation because management policies on protected coral reefs are less effective than they were before the current ecosystem degradation. Coral reefs, the most diverse and complex marine ecosystem provide ec...
Characterization and evaluation of coral reefs around Yap Proper, Federated States of Micronesia
"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...
Diversity and distribution of azooxanthellate corals in the Colombian Caribbean
"During the last decade, knowledge of azooxanthellate corals in the Colombian Caribbean has increased through exploration campaigns by the Marine and Coastal Research Institute (INVEMAR). The distribution of 142 species of corals, including hard corals (S...
Rapid community change at a tropical upwelling site in the Galapagos Marine Reserve
The high biodiversity of tropical marine communities has attracted considerable interest, yet we still lack a clear understanding of the tempo of diversity change in these systems. Knowledge of the conditions associated with fast or slow community assembl...
Marine biological community baselines in unimpacted tropical ecosystems: spatial and temporal analysis of reefs at Howland and Baker Islands
"Howland and Baker Islands are two small, isolated reef and sand islets located near the equator in the central Pacific Ocean that are situated approximately 60 km apart. In 2004 and 2006, species-level monitoring at multiple sites, coupled with towed-div...
New marine algal records from the Polynesia-Micronesia region of the Pacific Ocean
"The first known collections of marine algae from Santa Rosa Reef, a submerged seamount located 46 km south-south-west of Guam in the Mariana Islands, occurred at 10.0 to 13.7 m depths in 2003 and 2005. Dasycladus vermicularis, a green alga known predomin...
Supplementary comment: conservation of deep-sea corals off the northeast United States