Application of paleoclimatology to coral reef monitoring and management
"The skeletons of reef-building corals are valuable archives of climatic and environmental information. Paleoclimatic data chiefly have been generated in areas most sensitive to global or regional climatic variability. However, these records also provide ...
Mass coral bleaching on high-latitude reefs in the Hawaiian Archipelago
"The first mass coral bleaching ever recorded in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), a chain of small islands, atolls, and banks that span ~1800 kilometers over more than five degrees of latitude in the northern part of the Hawaiian Archipela...
Status of fishery target species on coral reefs of the Marianas Archipelago
"Large coral reef fish were surveyed throughout the Marianas Archipelago in August- September 2003 to assess their status as fishery targets. Three underwater visual survey methods were used: belt transect (for fish over 20 cm long), stationary point coun...
Settlement preferences and post-settlement mortality of laboratory cultured and settled larvae of the Caribbean hermatypic coral Montastraea faveolata and Acropora palmata in the Florida Keys, USA
"The broadcast spawning massive corals, Motastraea faveolata and Acropora palmata, are two of the most important hermatypes in the Caribbean. They are common as large colonies up to several meters high (former) or in large patches (latter), but infrequent...
An experimental histopathological rating scale of sedimentation stress in the Caribbean coral Montastraea cavernosa
"Colonies of Montastraea cavernosa were exposed to daily applications of approximately 200-225 mg cm-2 sediments, during a four-week period, in order to investigate coral responses to increased sedimentation. Effects were assessed based on the histopathol...
Application of paleoclimatology to coral reef monitoring and management