The 1998 bleaching event and its aftermath on a coral reef in Belize
"Widespread thermal anomalies in 1997-1998, due primarily to regional effects of the El Nio-Southern Oscillation and possibly augmented by global warming, caused severe coral bleaching worldwide. Corals in all habitats along the Belizean barrier reef blea...
Thermal stress and coral cover as drivers of coral disease outbreaks
"Very little is known about how environmental changes such as increasing temperature affect disease dynamics in the ocean, especially at large spatial scales. We asked whether the frequency of warm temperature anomalies is positively related to the freque...
Expectations and outcomes of reserve network performance following re-zoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
"Networks of no-take marine reserves (NTMRs) are widely advocated for preserving exploited fish stocks and for conserving biodiversity. We used underwater visual surveys of coral reef fish and benthic communities to quantify the short- to medium-term (5 t...
Conservation of coral reefs after the 1998 global bleaching event
"Large-scale coral bleaching has happened repeatedly in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Caribbean since 1982. Previously it was observed only on a small scale..."
Variation in life-history traits of the corallivorous gastropod Coralliophila abbreviata on three coral hosts
"Coralliophila abbreviata (Lamarck) is a corallivorous gastropod that lives and feeds on several species of scleractinian coral in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean. Previous studies of C. abbreviata have revealed that snails on branching acroporid coral...
Avoiding coral reef functional collapse requires local and global action
"Coral reefs face multiple anthropogenic threats, from pollution and overfishing to the dual effects of greenhouse gas emissions: rising sea temperature and ocean acidification [1]. While the abundance of coral has declined in recent decades [2, 3], the i...
Development of the nasal olfactory organ in the larvae, settlement-stages and some adults of 14 species Caribbean reef fish (Labridae, Scaridae, Pomacentridae)
"Larval fishes likely use a variety of settlement cues to locate and navigate toward the habitats they will inhabit as juveniles. Information about the morphology and state of development of the sensory organs of larval stages of fishes provides insight i...
Spatial variation of otolith elemental signatures among juvenile gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus) inhabiting southern Florida waters
"Juvenile gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus, are believed to use bays and estuaries in southern Florida as nurseries before moving out to the adjoining reef tract as adults. Using high-resolution sector Weld-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (SF-I...
Resilience in carbonate production despite three coral bleaching events in 5 years on an inshore patch reef in the Florida Keys
"The persistence of coral reef frameworks requires that calcium carbonate (CaCO3) production by corals and other calcifiers outpaces CaCO3 loss via physical, chemical, and biological erosion. Coral bleaching causes declines in CaCO3 production, but this v...
How microbial community composition regulates coral disease development
"Reef coral cover is in rapid decline worldwide, in part due to bleaching (expulsion of photosynthetic symbionts) and outbreaks of infectious disease. One important factor associated with bleaching and in disease transmission is a shift in the composition...
The 1998 bleaching event and its aftermath on a coral reef in Belize