"The relatively recent and well-documented decline of coral cover among reefs around the world has stimulated numerous publications on coral reef ecology and in particular coral reef mortality. These studies have predominantly collected data from nearshor...
Morphology offers no clues to asexual vs. sexual origin of small Acropora cervicornis (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) colonies
"Sexual recruitment of the staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis, is accepted to be very rare. Instead, these branching corals proliferate through fragmentation leading to dense mono-specific and possibly monoclonal stands. For acroporid corals, which have...
Implications of coral harvest and transplantation on reefs in northwestern Dominica
"In June, 2002, the government of Dominica requested assistance in evaluating the coral culture and transplantation activities being undertaken by Oceanographic Institute of Dominica (OID), a coral farm culturing both western Atlantic and Indo-Pacific cor...
Assessing the accuracy of acoustic seabed classification for mapping coral reef environments in South Florida (Broward County, USA)
"The Atlantic coast of Broward County, Florida (USA) is paralleled by a series of progressively deeper, shore-parallel coral reef communities. Two of these reef systems are drowned early Holocene coral reefs of 5 ky and 7 ky uncorrected radiocarbon age. D...
Management of Queensland sea cucumber stocks by rotational zoning
Discusses decision of the Queensland Sea Cucumber Industry Association to implement a Rotational Zoning System (RZS), which allows all coral reef areas open to harvesting to be divided into 156 zones, of which only 52 zones are open each year.
The deeper we go the less we know