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Reef fishes of Saba Bank, Netherlands Antilles : Assemblage structure across a gradient of habitat types [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Saba Bank is a 2,200 km2 submerged carbonate platform in the northeastern Caribbean Sea off Saba Island, Netherlands Antilles. The presence of reef-like geomorphic features and significant shelf edge coral development on Saba Bank have led to the ...
Debrot, A.O.   +3 more
core   +11 more sources

Local Conditions Influence the Prokaryotic Communities Associated With the Mesophotic Black Coral Antipathella subpinnata

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Black corals are important habitat-forming species in the mesophotic and deep-sea zones of the world’s oceans because of their arborescent colony structure and tendency to form animal forests. Although we have started unraveling the ecology of mesophotic
Jeroen A. J. M. van de Water   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biogeographic assessment of Gorgonian-associated bacteria with antipathogenic Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in Karimunjawa Marine National Park, Java Sea, Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yesNature Conservation, 2022
Gorgonian corals of Karimunjawa are impacted by anthropogenic activities, such as increasingly high mariculture intensity with consequent eutrophication, overfishing, tourism, sewage, and other pollutant discharges, which result in changes in the ...
Agus Sabdono   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Biodiversity loss in a Mediterranean ecosystem due to an extreme warming event unveils the role of an engineering gorgonian species

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2019
Stochastic perturbations can trigger major ecosystem shifts. Marine systems have been severely affected in recent years by mass mortality events related to positive thermal anomalies.
J. Verdura   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparison of the cryo-tolerance of vitrified gorgonian oocytes [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2016
AbstractCoral reefs have been declining considerably in recent years because of changes to the environment and climate. The cryopreservation of coral gametes is an essential alternative method that yields immense success in preserving corals. This study focuses on developing vitrification techniques for Junceella fragilis and Ellisella robusta oocytes ...
Vivian Yang, Sujune Tsai, Chiahsin Lin
openaire   +3 more sources

Seabed monitoring with Girona 500 AUV working as HROV [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents the use of Girona 500 AUV as a Hybrid ROV (HROV) to inspect underwater habitats by combining basic teleoperation and automatic way-point following.
Carreras, Marc   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Natural Product Chemistry of Gorgonian Corals of the Family Plexauridae Distributed in the Indo-Pacific Ocean

open access: yesMarine Drugs, 2012
The structures, names, bioactivities and references of 105 natural products obtained from gorgonian corals belonging to the family Plexauridae with an Indo-Pacific distribution are described in this review.
Ping-Jyun Sung   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Size/Age Models for Monitoring of the Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea) and a Case Study Application

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020
The pink sea fan Eunicella verrucosa is a habitat-forming octocoral living in the East Atlantic and in the Mediterranean Sea where, under proper circumstances, it can form large populations known as coral forests.
Giovanni Chimienti   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Uprolides N, O and P from the Panamanian Octocoral Eunicea succinea. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Three new diterpenes, uprolide N (1), uprolide O (2), uprolide P (3) and a known one, dolabellane (4), were isolated from the CH₂Cl₂-MeOH extract of the gorgonian octocoral Eunicea succinea, collected from Bocas del Toro, on the Caribbean coast of Panama.
Fernandez, Patricia L   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Vulnerable Forests of the Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa in the Mediterranean Sea

open access: yesDiversity, 2020
The pink sea fan Eunicella verrucosa (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Alcyonacea) can form coral forests at mesophotic depths in the Mediterranean Sea. Despite the recognized importance of these habitats, they have been scantly studied and their distribution is ...
Giovanni Chimienti
doaj   +1 more source

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