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Precious Coral Fisheries of Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific Islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
The precious coral fishery in Hawaii and the Western Pacific consists of one industry but two distinct and separate fisheries. The first is the harvest of black coral by scuba divers from depths of 30-100 m.
Grigg, Richard W.
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Benthic invertebrates that form habitat on deep banks off southern California, with special reference to deep sea coral [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
There is increasing interest in the potential impacts that fishing activities have on megafaunal benthic invertebrates occurring in continental shelf and slope ecosystems.
Amend, Mark   +4 more
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Siting Study for a Hydrokinetic Energy Project Located Offshore Southeastern Florida: Protocols for Survey Methodology for Offshore Marine Hydrokinetic Energy Projects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Dehlsen Associates, LLC was awarded a grant by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Golden Field Office for a project titled “Siting Study Framework and Survey Methodology for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Project in Offshore Southeast Florida,”
Messing, Charles   +4 more
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Davidson Seamount Taxonomic Guide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Davidson Seamount is one of the largest seamounts in U.S. waters and the first to be characterized as a “seamount.” In 2002 and 2006, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) led two multi-institutional expeditions to characterize the geology ...
Burton, Erica J., Lundsten, Lonny
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Spicy food for the egg-cowries: the evolution of corallivory in the Ovulidae (Gastropoda: Cypraeoidea)

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
IntroductionHost-parasite associations provide very useful models to study adaptive processes. We investigated the interaction between carnivorous marine gastropods, the Ovulidae or egg-cowries, and their cnidarian food targets. Ovulidae (Fleming, 1828),
Elisa Nocella   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Notes for a history of coral fishing and coral artefacts in Malta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Coral has been prized for centuries due to its perceived protective qualities against disease, the devil and harmful supernatural forces. Fashioned into beads, horns, hands, or left in its natural state in the form of little branches, coral talismans ...
Balzan, Francesca, Deidun, Alan
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Solution and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry measurements of Br, I, Pb, Mn, Cd, Zn, and B in the organic skeleton of soft corals and black corals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Proxy records can be derived from soft corals and black corals using minor and trace element measurements of the organic skeleton of these corals.
A. G. Grottoli   +44 more
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Optimization of DNA extraction from seeds and fresh leaf tissues of Soybean (Glycine max) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The effects of various components on extraction buffer such as SDS-NaCI, PVP, p-mercaptoethanol, extraction with Phenol:Chloroform:lsoamyl acetate, and incubation time on the DNA extraction from seeds and fresh leaves of Soybean (Glycine max)were ...
., Evellyn   +2 more
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Marine animal forests in high-energy environments after a large anthropic impact: discoveries from the Rion-Antirion Strait, Greece

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
The Rion–Antirion Strait (Greece, 50–100 m depth) hosts rich Marine Animal Forests (MAFs), formed by several species of anthozoans, sponges, bryozoans and tunicates.
Lucinda Titri   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial distribution of the black coral Leiopathes glaberrima (Esper, 1788) (Antipatharia: Leiopathidae) in the Mediterranean: a prerequisite for protection of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs)

open access: yesThe European Zoological Journal, 2018
Leiopathes glaberrima is an important component of the deep coral forests of the Mediterranean Sea enhancing benthic biodiversity and forming an essential habitat for many marine organisms.
D. Massi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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