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Marine Drugs, 2010 Extracts of the Floridian marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya cf. confervoides were found to deter feeding by reef fish and sea urchins (Diadema antillarum).
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Assessment of Elkhorn Coral Populations and Associated Herbivores in Akumal, Mexico
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 Coral decline in the Caribbean is marked by the loss of habitat-forming corals, such as elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata). Elkhorn coral recovery has been isolated and patchy, but recently a “re-sheeting” phenomenon, in which elkhorn tissue grows over ...
Laura Mudge +4 more
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Aquaculture Research, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.Sea urchins, ecologically important marine species, host a complex gut microbiota that plays a significant role in their digestion, nutrient acquisition, and overall health. The gut microbes, along with endogenous enzymes, facilitate the breakdown of macroalgae and other food sources.
Yining Zheng +11 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2006 Diadema antillarum populations at many Caribbean locations have failed to recover from the pathogen-induced mortality events of the 1980s. It has become clear that the massive decline of this herbivorous urchin and the wide-spread absence of a population
S. C. C Steiner, S. M Williams
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NITROGENOUS EXCRETION IN THE TROPICAL SEA URCHIN DIADEMA ANTILLARUM PHILIPPI
The Biological Bulletin, 1967 Diadema antillarum is ammonotelic in its excretion of nitrogenous waste products. It excretes approximately 60% of its total nonprotein nitrogen as ammonia and approximately 30% as amino acids. No urea, uric acid or other purine bases were found to be excreted.
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Revista de Investigaciones Marinas, 2018 Las crestas arrecifales son un recurso de significativo valor natural y ecológico. En esta investigación se evaluaron las poblaciones de Acropora palmata y Diadema antillarum en las crestas arrecifales de playa Baracoa y Rincón de Guanabo.
Fredy Hernández-Delgado +2 more
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Abundancia de Diadema antillarum (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) en las costas de Venezuela
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2006 Diadema antillarum es un erizo de aguas someras del Atlántico tropical cuyas poblaciones fueron diezmadas entre los años 1983-1984 con mortandades de hasta 87-100 %.
Nicida Noriega +2 more
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Estado de Crestas de Arrecifes en el Parque Nacional Jardines de la Reina, Cuba.
Revista de Investigaciones Marinas, 2023 Se muestrearon en febrero 2016 cuatro crestas de arrecifes en el Parque Nacional Jardines de la Reina, Cuba, para conocer su estado. Se evaluaron indicadores ecológicos sobre el Sistema de Escalas para la Clasificación y Puntaje de Condición del Bentos ...
Leslie Hernández-Fernández +2 more
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Use of Diadema antillarum Spines by Juvenile Fish and Mysid Shrimp
Gulf and Caribbean Research, 2007 The long-spined sea urchin (Diadema antillarum Phillipi) is an important element in the structure and function of coral reef communities. Regarded as a key herbivore in reef communities, grazing by D. antillarum shifts community dominance from macroalgal cover to live coral (Lessios 2005, Tuya et al. 2004).
Townsend, Taryn, Bologna, Paul A.X.
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SENDEROS SUBMARINOS DEL PARQUE NACIONAL CAHUITA: DESCRIPCIÓN BIOLÓGICA
Revista Ciencias Marinas y Costeras, 2011 Los recorridos en los Senderos Submarinos del Parque Nacional Cahuitapermitieron identificar los organismos marinos presentes. La descripción biológica de la flora y la fauna se basó en la metodología de línea transecto y observación directa.
Gerardo E. Palacios Martínez
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