Coral Health Related
Literature Abstracts

indexed by subject

Coral Health Disorders and Diseases

Location-Specific Diseases

• Distribution and Dynamics of Coral Diseases in the Eastern Red Sea. [1988]
• Coral Diseases in the Indo-Pacific: A First Record. [1985]
• Loss of Zooxanthellae and Death of Corals and Other Reef Organisms on the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Costa Rica (SPA). [1984]
• Distribution of Viral Abundance in the Reef Environment of Key Largo, Florida. [1993]

Coral "Bleaching"

• Bacterial infection and coral bleaching. [1996]
• Bacterial Ecology of Selected Corals Following the 1994 South Central Pacific Bleaching Event. [1995]
• Bacteria Assiciated with Bleached and Nonbleached areas of Monastrea annularis. [1993]
• Applying MCSST to coral reef bleaching
• Coral Bleaching Threatens Ocean, Life
• Lingering Effects of the 1987 Mass Bleaching of Puerto Rican Coral Reefs in Mid to Late 1988. [1991]
• Elevated Temperatures and Bleaching on a High Latitude Coral Reef: The 1988 Bermuda Event. [1990]
• The 1982-1983 El Nino: Impact of Eastern Pacific Reef Carbonate Budgets and Implications for Severe Bleaching Disturbances--published. [1992]
• Recovery of the Coral Montastrea Annularis in the Florida Keys after the 1987 Caribbean "Bleaching Event"--published. [1993]
• Seawater Temperature and Sublethal Coral Bleaching in Jamaica. [1990]
• Coral Reef Bleaching: Ecological Perspectives. [1993]
• Coral reef bleaching in the 1980s and possible connections with global warming. [1991]
• Reduced Growth Rate of Montastrea Annularis Following the 1987-1988 Coral-Bleaching Event. [1990]
• Remote Detection of Coral "Bleaching" Using Pulsed-Laser Fluorescence Spectroscopy. [1992]
• Changes in Pigmentation Associated with the Bleaching of Stony Corals. [1989]
• Bleaching in Reef Corals: Physiological and Stable Isotopic Responses. [1989]
• Naturally Occurring and Laboratory Induced Bleaching in Two Caribbean Coral Species. [1991]
• The Effects of Prolonged "Bleaching" on the Tissue Biomass and Reproduction of the Reef Coral Montastrea Annularis. [1990]
• Response of Sponges with Autotrophic Endosymbionts During the Coral-Bleaching Episode in Puerto Rico. [1990]
• Mechanisms of Bleaching of Zooxanthellate Symbioses. [1991]
• Bleaching of Caribbean Coral Reef Symbionts in 1987-1988--published. [1988]
• The World-Wide Coral Reef Bleaching Cycle and Related Sources of Coral Mortality. [1990]
• Bleaching of Reef Organisms in the Santa Marta Region, Colombia: 1987 Caribbean-Wide Event. [1987]

Black Band Disease, White Band Disease and Other Diseases

• Bacterial Studies on White-Band Disease of Acropora cervicornis. [1995]
• Preferential carbon utilization by surface bacterial communities from water mass, normal, and white-band diseased Acroporal cervicornis. [1995]
• Carbon source utilization patterns of coral associated marine heterotrophs. [1994]
• Extent and Effect of Black Band Disease on a Caribbean Reef. [1991]
• Mass Death of Gorgonia flabellum L. (Octocorallia: Gorgonidae) on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. [1984]
• Ecological Studies of a Cyanobacterial Infection on the Caribbean Sea Plume Pseudopterogorgia Acerosa (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). [1988]

Abnormal Growth

• Calicoblastic Neoplasms in Acropora Palmata , With a Review of Reports on Anomalies of Growth and Form in Corals. [1986]

Hypoxia

• Avoidance of Hypoxia in a Cnidarian Symbiosis by Algal Photosynthetic Oxygen. [1992]

Cancer

• Prevalence and Distribution Patterns of Tumors in Bicolor Damselfish (Pomacentrus Partitus ) on South Florida Reefs. [1991]

El Nino Related Damage

• Damage and Recovery of Coral Reefs Affected by El Nino Related Seawater Warming in the Thousand Islands, Indonesia. [1990]
• The 1982-1983 El Nino: Impact of Eastern Pacific Reef Carbonate Budgets and Implications for Severe Bleaching Disturbances--published. [1992]
• Extreme tidal exposures, cool upwelling and coral mortality in the eastern Pacific (Panama). Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean. [1989]
• Elimination of Two Reef-Building Hydrocorals Following the 1982-83 El Nino Warming Event. [1991]
• El Nino, Bioerosion and the Survival of East Pacific Reefs. [1988]

Climate and Weather Changes Affecting Coral Reefs

• Impacts of Hurricane Andrew on the offshore reef systems of central and northern Dade County, Florida. [1994]
• Catastrophes, phase shifts, and large-scale degradation of a Caribbean coral reef. [1994]
• Climate variation and El Nino-Southern Oscillation events on the Great Barrier Reef: 1958 to 1987. [1994]
• An Assessment of Global Warming Stress on Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems. [1992]
• Extreme tidal exposures, cool upwelling and coral mortality in the eastern Pacific (Panama). Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean. [1989]
• Response of Hawaiian and Other Indo-Pacific Reef Corals to Elevated Temperature. [1990]
• Implications of Climate Change and Associated Sea-Level Rise for Atolls. [1988]
• Climate Change: Effects on Reef Island Resources. [1988]
• Effects of Hurricane Hugo (1989) on a Coral Reef in St. John, USVI--published. [1991]
• Effects of Disturbance: Disruption and Enhancement of Coral Reef Cryptofaunal Populations by Hurricanes. [1991]
• Similar Trends, Different Causes: Responses of Corals to Stressed Environments in Arabian Seas. [1988]

Ciguatera and Ciguatoxin Damage

• Correlation Between Ciguateric Fish and Damage to Reefs in the Gambier Islands (French Polynesia). [1988]
• The Effects of Ciguatoxin on Teleosts. [1988]
• A Large Common-Source Outbreak of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning. [1988]
• Structures of Ciguatoxin and Its Congener. [1989]
• Ciguatera in the Pacific: A Link with Military Activities. [1989]
• Ciguatera, 1993

Human Impact on Coral Reefs

• Distribution of Coral and Fish in the Lagoon at Mataiva: Potential for Increase Through Mining? [1988]
• Characteristics and Assessment of Dredge Related Mechanical Impact to Hard-Bottom Reef Areas Off Northern Dade County, Florida. [1990]
• The Coral Reefs from Northwestern Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in the Social-Economic Context. [1988]
• The Impact of Human Influence on the Fringing Reef of Pulau Hantu, Singapore. [1988]
• Are Human Impacts, Either Through Traditional or Contemporary Uses, Stabilizing or Destabilizing to Reef Community Structure? [1988]
• The Impact of a Ship Grounding on the Reef Fish Assemblage at Molasses Reef, Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary, Florida--1988
• Decade Time Scale Variability of Ventilation in the North Atlantic: High-precision Measurements of Bomb Radiocarbon in Banded Corals. [1989]
• Impact of Exploratory Wells, Offshore Florida: A Biological Assessment. [1991]
• Management of Large Marine Ecosystems: A Multinational Approach. [1988]
• Effects of Trap Fishing on Fish Populations Inhabiting a Fringing Coral Reef. [1987]
• Five Years of Coral Recovery Following a Freighter Grounding in the Florida Keys. [1990]
• The Recovery Process in a Mechanically Damaged Coral Reef Community: Recruitment and Growth. [1988]
• Toxic Effect of the Explosive Depth Charge Chemicals from the Ship SANKISAN MARU on the Coral Reef Fish Dascyllus aruanus (L.).[1975]
• Modelling the Effects of Destructive Fishing Practices on Tropical Coral Reefs. [1993]
• Methods of Measurement of Exploratory Well Impacts, Offshore Florida. [1990]
• Impact of Recreational Divers on Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys. [1990]
• Dispersed Oil Effects on Mangroves, Seagrasses, and Corals in the Wider Caribbean. [1988]
• Human Impact on Pacific Reefs Today: Priorities for Conservation in an Era of Global Climate Change. [1992]
• Turn-ons and Turn-offs: Causes and Mechanisms of the Initiation and Termination of Coral Reef Growth. [1988]
• Endangered Coral Reefs of Bay Islands and Their Ornamental Fishes. [1987]
• Seagrass Restoration in the Pacific Tropics. [1988]

Nutrient Information

• The population dynamics of symbiotic zooxanthellae in the coral Pocillopora damicornis exposed to elevated ammonia
• Mucous Sheet Formation on Poritid Corals: An Evaluation of Coral Mucus as a Nutrient Source on Reefs. [1990]
• Nutrient-Rich Groundwater Impact on BenthicCommunities of La Saline Fringing Reef (Reunion Island, Indian Ocean): Preliminary Results. [1988]
• Review of the Effects of Non-Point Nutrient Loading on Coastal Ecosystems. [1993]
• Interoceanic Differences in Foraminifera with Symbiotic Algae: A Result of Nutrient Supplies?--1988
• The Role of Nutrient Availability in Bioerosion: Consequences to Carbonate Buildups. [1988]
• Phosphorus Budget in an Atoll Lagoon. [1988]

Plankton

Zooplankton

• Zooplankton Composition of the Kalpeni and Agatti Atolls, Lakshadweep Archipelago. [1989]
• Standing Stock of Microzooplankton on Coral Reefs: A Preliminary Study. [1991]
• Nitrogen Excretion by Demersal Zooplankton in Coral Reef Lagoons. [1993]
• Zooplankton Capture by a Coral Reef Fish: An Adaptive Response to Evasive Prey. [1990]
• Surface Zooplankton Dynamics in the Northern Gulf of Aqaba (Elat), Red Sea. [1990]
• Coral Reef: A Factor Influencing Zooplankton Distribution. [1993]
• Diel variation in zooplankton in Minicoy Lagoon and Kavaratti Atoll (Lakshadweep Islands). [1990]
• Production and Zooplankton Community Structure in the Lagoon and Surrounding Sea at Kavaratti Atoll (Lakshadweep). [1983]
• (Diurnal Variation of the Zooplankton Associated to Thalassia Testudinum Seagrasses in a Reef Lagoon at the Mexican Caribbean). [1990]
• Demersal Zooplankton Associated with Coral Heads at Sichang Islands, Thailand. [1986]
• Plankton Inhabiting the Surface Layer of the Southern and Southwestern Lagoon of New Caledonia. [1993]

Planktonic Larvae

• The Relationship of Reef Hydrodynamics to Variations in Numbers of Planktonic Larvae On and Around Coral Reefs. [1988]
• Larval and Juvenile Ascothoracida (Crustacea) from the Plankton. [1988]
• Preferences of Planktotrophic Larvae of the Tropical Serpulid Spirobranchus Giganteus (Pallas) for Exudates of Corals from a Barbados Reef. [1990]

Monitoring and Management Information

• Environmental implications of growth rate changes in Montastrea � annularis: Biscayne National Park, Florida. [1994]
• A long-term interdisciplinary study of the Florida Keys seascape,1994.
• Marine Environment Survey: Proposed Aleipata Islands National Park, Western Samoa. [1989]
• Contribution of SPOT Satellite to the Knowledge of the Coral Reef Ecosystem. The Marine Vegetation of Moorea Island, French Polynesia. [1990]
• Visual Census of Reef Fish Assemblages: A Comparison of Slate, Audio, and Video Recording Devices. [1991]
• A Comparison of Three Methods for Visually Assessing Reef Fish Communities: Time and Area Compensated. [1989]
• Policy Recommendations for Coastal Area Management in the ASEAN Region as Discussed by Policymakers, Administrators and Scientists at the Policy Workshop on Coastal Area Management, 25-27 October 1988, Johore Bahru, Malaysia---published. [1989]
• Ecological Monitoring at the Texas Flower Garden Coral Reefs. [1989]
• Control of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. [1992]
• Comparative Accuracies of Visual Assessment Methods for Coral Reef Fishes. [1989]
• Coral Reef Environmental Science: Truth Versus the Cassandra Syndrome. [1992]
• Restoration of Coral Reefs in Pacific Costa Rica. [1991]
• A Trial Improvement on Coral Reef in Jepara. [1988]
• Coral Transplantation as a Reef Management Option. [1988]
• Materials and Methods to Establish Multipurpose, Sustained, Ecological Research Stations on Coral Reefs at Dry Tortugas. [1990]
• State of the Reefs: Regional and Global Perspectives.International Coral Reef Initiative [1995]
• How To Sustain Commercial Fisheries for the Long Term? Harvest Refugia May Be the Answer[1991]
• Key Largo Coral Reef Marine Sanctuary Literature Survey and Water Quality Monitoring Program.[1981]
• Key Largo Coral Reef National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan.[1981]
• Status of High-Technology Remote Sensing for Mapping and Monitoring Coral Reef Environments. [1988]
• A Village-Level Approach to Coastal Adaptive Management and Resource Assessment (CAMRA). [1988]
• Detecting Change in Coral Reef Communities: A Comparison of Survey Methods. [1991]
• The International Coral Reef Initiative Workshop Final Report.[1995]
• Coupon Bight Aquatic Preserve Management Plan. [1990]
• An Evaluation of Coral Reef Census Strategies: Implications for Monitoring Programs. [1992]
• Coral Reefs - A Challenging Ecosystem for Human Societies. [1992]
• World Coral Reef Site Network: A Long-Term Global Plan to Monitor Coral Reefs for Natural and Anthropogenic Change. [1992]
• Marine Resource Protection Versus Marine Tourism in Curacao: A Management Problem? [1988]
• The Role of Protected Areas in Sustaining Island Societies. [1990]
• State of Coral Reefs and Mangroves of the Tulear Region (SW Madagascar): Assessment of Human Activities and Suggestions for Management. [1988]
• Management of Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [1989]
• An Outline of the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Project (CARICOMP). [1989]
• Assessing Environmental Impacts on Coral Reefs. [1988]
• Turn-ons and Turn-offs: Causes and Mechanisms of the Initiation and Termination of Coral Reef Growth. [1988]
• Recreation Fishery and Population Dynamics of Spiny Lobsters, Panulirus Argus in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park. [1977-1980---published. [1989]
• Feasibility of Using ATP as an Index for Environmental Stress on Hermatypic Coral. [1991]
• Kenyan Coral Reef-Associated Gastropod Fauna: A Comparison Between Protected and Unprotected Reefs. [1989]
• Comparative Sampling Methods for Subtidal Epibenthic Gastropods. [1992]
• Coral reefs: Valuable Resources of Southeast Asia. [1987]
• Chaetodon Occurrence Relative to Coral Reef Habitats in the Philippines with Implications for Reef Assessment. [1988]
• Aspects of Benthic Recruitment on a Northern Philippine Reef. [1988]

Artificial Reef Information

• Artificial Reef Development Along the Coast of Guatemala. [1988]
• Artificial Reef Development Along Guatemala's Atlantic Coast. [1989]
• Habitat Complexity and the Abundance of Juvenile Fishes Residing on Small Scale Artificial Reefs. [1989]
• Study on Artificial Coral Reef in Pari Island, Thousand Islands, Indonesia. [1988]

Sediment Related Information

• Physiological Effects of Sediment Rejection on Photosynthesis and Respiration in Three Caribbean Reef Corals. [1988]
• Effects of Terrigenous Sediment Influx on Coral Reef Zonation in Southwestern Puerto Rico. [1988]
• Cyclone-Induced Shelf Sediment Transport and the Ecology of the Great Barrier Reef. [1988]
• Effects of Suspended Sediment and Burial on Scleractinian Corals From West Central Florida Patch Reefs. [1992]
• Importance of Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGWD) and Seawater Cycling to Material Flux Across Sediment/Water Interfaces in Marine Environments. [1992]
• Sediment-Rejection Efficiency of 22 Species of Australian Scleractinian Corals. [1993]
• Recognition of Storm Impact on the Reef Sediment Record. [1988]

Acanthaster predation-related information.

• Assessment of Bacterial Pathogenesis in Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Acanthaster Planci(L). [1988]
• The uptake of dissolved organic matter by the larval stages of the crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci.

Detailed Information about Specific Species

• Population Characteristics of the Stone Crab, Menippe Mercenaria , in Florida Bay and the Florida Keys. [1989]
• The Influence of Some Cembranolides from Gorgonian Corals on Motility of Marine Flagellates. [1989]
• Effects of Microhabitat and Metabolic Rate on Food Intake, Growth and Fecundity of Two Competing Coral Reef Fishes. [1992]
• Aspects of the Spawning of Western Atlantic Butterflyfishes (Pisces: Chaetodontidae). [1989]
• Differences in Inshore-Offshore and Vertical Distribution of Phyllosoma Larvae of Panulirus, Scyllarus and Scyllarides in the Florida Keys in May-June. [1989]--published. [1991]
• Damselfishes and their algal lawns: a case of plural mutualism. Symbiosis. [1987]
• Avoidance of damselfish lawns by the sea urchin Diadema mexicanum at Uva Island.[1988]
• An Energy Budget for Porites (Scleractinia), Growing in a Stressed Environment. [1989]
• Color Variation and Associated Behavior in the Epinepheline Groupers, Mycteroperca Microlepis (Goode and Bean) and M. Phenax Jordan and Swain. [1992]
• Condition of Coral Reef Cnidarians from Biscayne National Park Reef Tract: Pesticides, Heavy Metals and Histopathological Examination. [1989]
• Spicule Formation in the Gorgonian Coral Pseudoplexaura Flagellosa. 1: Demonstration of Intracellular and Extracellular Growth and the Effect of Ruthenium Red During Decalcification. [1987]
• The Structure of Sweeper Tentacles in the Black Coral Antipathes Fiordensis. [1990]
• Nature of the Metamorphic Signal and its Internal Transduction in Larvae of the Nudibranch Phestilla Sibogae. [1990]
• Behavioral Associations of Coral Reef Fishes with the Sea Anemone Condylactis Gigantea in the Dry Tortugas, Florida. [1986]
• Stony Coral (Scleractinia and Milleporina) Community Structure at Bird Key Reef, Ft. Jefferson National Monument, Dry Tortugas, Florida. [1989]
• Morphometric analysis of the Poritidae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) off Belize.[1995]
• Early Life History of the Giant Clams Tridacna crocea Lamarck, Tridacna maxima (Roding) and Hippopus hippopus (L.).[1976]
• Architectural and Mechanical Properties of the Black Coral Skeleton (Coelenterata: Antipatharia): A Comparison of Two Species. [1992]
• Preferences of Planktotrophic Larvae of the Tropical Serpulid Spirobranchus Giganteus (Pallas) for Exudates of Corals from a Barbados Reef. [1990]
• Cross-Shelf Distribution of Copepods and Fish Larvae Across the Central Great Barrier Reef
• Kenyan Coral Reef-Associated Gastropod Assemblages: Distribution and Diversity Patterns
• Epibenthic Gastropods of the Middle Florida Keys: The Role of Habitat and Environmental Stress on Assemblage Composition. [1992]
• Patterns of Predation on a Sea Urchin, Echinometra Mathaei (de Blainville), on Kenyan Coral Reefs. [1989]
• Causes and Consequences of Sea Urchin Abundance and Diversity in Kenyan Coral Reef Lagoons. [1990]
• Species Profiles: Life Histories and Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates (South Atlantic). Black Sea Bass
• A Eucheuma (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta) Cultivation Test on the South-West Coast of Madagascar. [1993]
• Dentition Patterns Among Pacific and Western Atlantic Butterflyfishes (Perciformes, Chaetodontidae): Relationship to Feeding Ecology and Evolutionary History. [1989]
• Seasonal Effects of Light, Temperature, Nutrient Concentration and Salinity on the Physiology and Growth of Caulerpa Paspaloides (Chlorophyceae). [1988]
• Distribution, Abundance and Food of Sea Urchins on a Leeward Hawaiian Reef. [1989]
• Species Profiles: Life Histories and Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates (South Florida). Reef-building corals. [1987]
• The Molluscan Community Associated with the Scleractinian Coral Oculina Varicosa. [1987]
• Alloimmunity in the Gorgonian Coral Swiftia Exserta. [1991]
• Feeding Habits of Japanese Butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae). [1989]
• Feeding Whorl Induced by Strong Current in a Planktivorous Reef Fish. [1993]
• Elasmopus Balkomanus , A New Species from the Florida Keys (Crustacea, Amphipoda). [1988]
• Assessment of Reef Fishes at Sombrero Key, Florida. [1990]
• The Egg Capsules and Early Life History of the Corallivorous Gastropod Drupella Cornus (Roeding, 1798). [1992]
• Range Extensions of Ahermatypic Scleractinia in the Gulf of Mexico. [1987]
• Assessment of Utilization of Sleeping Habitat by Juvenile Turtles Off Broward County, Florida. [1987]
• Corals and Other Prominent Benthic Cnidaria of Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary, Florida. [1988]
• Chaetodon Occurrence Relative to Coral Reef Habitats in the Philippines with Implications for Reef Assessment. [1988]
• Aspects of Benthic Recruitment on a Northern Philippine Reef. [1988]
• Hyperiid Amphipods (Crustacea: Peracarida) From a Warm-Core Eddy in the Tasman Sea. [1987]
• A New Species of Eoceratoconcha Newman and Ladd. [1974 (Cirripedia, Archaeobalanidae) from the Pliocene of Florida. [1991]

Detailed Information About Specific Places

• Some leeward reefs and corals of Cozumel, Mexico. [1988]
• Coral Composition of a Fringing Reef Within the Belizean Barrier Reef System. [1988]
• Species Composition, Community Structure and Zoogeography of Fishes of Mangrove Estuaries in the Solomon Islands. [1990]
• Occurence of Atlantic Reef Coralson Offshore Platforms in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. [1991]
• Potential Benefits of Harvest Refugia in ChannelIslands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary [1991]
• Oceanic Chlorophyll Around Carbonate Platforms in the Western Caribbean; Observations From CZCS Data
• Zooplankton, Planktivorous Fish, and Water Currents on a Windward Reef Face: Great Barrier Reef, Australia. [1988]
• The Microalgal Community at Molasses Reef, Florida. [1988]
• Algal Community Structure at Molasses Reef, Florida. [1989]
• Coral Reefs (Ecosystems of Florida, USA). [1990]
• Key Largo Coral Reef Marine Sanctuary Deep Water Resource Survey Operations Manual. [1981]
• East Flower Garden Bank Brine Seep Biological Assessment Operations Manual. [1981]
• Key Largo Coral Reef Marine Sanctuary Deep Water Resource Survey. [1981]
• Biological Zonation. In: Key Largo Coral Reef Marine Sanctuary Deep Water Resource Survey. [1981]
• Archaeology In: Key Largo Coral Reef Sanctuary Deep Water Resource Survey. [1981]
• Conclusion. In: Key Largo Coral Reef Marine Sanctuary Deep Water Resource Survey. [1981]
• Initiation and Development of Tidal-Inlet Reef Mounds South Florida. [1988]
• Pleistocene Bedrock Geology of Florida Bay, the Keys and the Everglades. [1989]
• A Eucheuma (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta) Cultivation Test on the South-West Coast of Madagascar. [1993]
• Endangered Coral Reefs of Bay Islands and Their Ornamental Fishes. [1987]
• Distribution and Significance of Heterotrophic Marine Bacteria with Antibacterial Activity. [1987]
• Trophic Structure of Reef Fish Communities. [1984]
• The Florida Everglades: A Buried Pseudoatoll? [1987]
• Curious Nodules on Florida's Outer Shelf. [1988]
• Distribution of Mollusks in Sediments of Florida Bay and Reef Tract. [1989]
• High-Energy Carbonate-Sand Accumulation, the Quicksands, Southwest Florida Keys. [1990]
• Recovery of a Disturbed Reef in Bermuda: Influence of Reef Structure and Herbivorous Grazers on Algal and Sessile Invertebrate Recruitment. [1988]
• Assessment of Reef Fishes at Sombrero Key, Florida. [1990]
• Range Extensions of Ahermatypic Scleractinia in the Gulf of Mexico. [1987]
• Corals and Other Prominent Benthic Cnidaria of Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary, Florida. [1988]
• Cross-Shelf Variations in Coral Reef Structure and Function -- Influences of Land and Ocean. [1988]
• Hyperiid Amphipods (Crustacea: Peracarida) From a Warm-Core Eddy in the Tasman Sea. [1987]

General Information About Coral Reefs

• Geographic Comparisons of Coral-Reef Community Processes. [1988]
• Geostrophic Pumping, Inflows and Upwelling in Barrier Reefs. [1989]
• The Influence of Adjacent Systems on the Structure and Function of Coral Reefs. [1988]
• Trophic Structure of Reef Fish Communities. [1984]
• Coral Reef Ecosystems.[1995]

  Historical Implications

  • An 8000 Year Holocene Sea-Level Record from Jamaica: Implications for Interpretation of Caribbean Reef and Coastal History. [1987]
  • Freshwater Flow from the Everglades to Florida Bay: A Historical Reconstruction Based on Fluorescent Banking in the Coral Solenastrea Bournoni. [1989]

  Populations

  • The Relationship of Reef Hydrodynamics to Variations in Numbers of Planktonic Larvae On and Around Coral Reefs. [1988]
  • Recreation Fishery and Population Dynamics of Spiny Lobsters, Panulirus Argus in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park. [1977-1980---published. [1989]
  • Population Regulation of the Rock-Boring Sea Urchin Echinometra Mathaei (de Blainville). [1991]
  • Causes and Consequences of Sea Urchin Abundance and Diversity in Kenyan Coral Reef Lagoons. [1990]
  • Distribution of Mollusks in Sediments of Florida Bay and Reef Tract. [1989]

  Changing Coral Reefs

  • Phase Shifts in Coral Reef Communities and Their Ecological Significance. [1992]
  • Changes in the Reef-Coral Community of Carysfort Reef, Key Largo, Florida: 1974 to 1982--published 1987
  • Biodiversity of coral reefs: What are we losing and why?

  Mangroves

  • Influence of Mangrove Detritus in an Estuarine Ecosystem

  Composition Analyses

  • Lipids as Indicators of the Origin of Organic Matter in Fine Marine Particulate Matter. [1988]
  • Distribution and Molecular Weight of Dissolved DNA in Subtropical Estuarine and Oceanic Environments. [1987]
  • Geochemical Evidence of Saharan Dust Parent Material for Soils Developed on Quaternary Limestones of Caribbean and Western Atlantic Islands. [1990]
  • Distribution and Significance of Heterotrophic Marine Bacteria with Antibacterial Activity. [1987]
  • Seawater Circulation Through the Flank of the Florida Platform: Evidence and Implications. [1990]
  • Water Relations of Coastal Plant Communities Near the Ocean/Freshwater Boundary. [1991]

  Zonality

  • The Question of "Zonality" in Coastal Geomorphology -- With Tentative Application Along the East Coast of the USA. [1989]

  Geological Information

  • The Endo-Upwelling Concept: From Geothermal Convection to Reef Construction. [1993]

  Methods, Devices, and Innovations

  • A Device For Sampling Small-Scale Spatial Patterns of Coral Epizoites
  • Evaluating the Performance of Light Traps for Sampling Small Fish and Squid in Open Waters of the Central Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. [1992]

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