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Novitates Caribaea, 2017 Several fireworms Hermodice carunculata (Pallas, 1766) were observed feeding on coral colonies or transplanted fragments of the threatened staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816), in outplanting sites at Bayahibe, Dominican Republic.
Johanna Calle-Triviño +3 more
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Genotype, Nursery Design, and Depth Influence the Growth of Acropora cervicornis Fragments
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Growing fragments of corals in nurseries and outplanting them to supplement declining natural populations have gained significant traction worldwide.
Paul Maneval +3 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Coral restoration has been recognized as an increasingly important tool for coral conservation in recent years. In the Caribbean, the endangered staghorn coral, Acropora cervicornis has been studied for restoration for over two decades with most studies ...
Johanna Calle-Triviño +7 more
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Nocturnal substrate association of four coral reef fish groups (parrotfishes, surgeonfishes, groupers and butterflyfishes) in relation to substrate architectural characteristics [PDF]
PeerJAlthough numerous coral reef fish species utilize substrates with high structural complexities as habitats and refuge spaces, quantitative analysis of nocturnal fish substrate associations has not been sufficiently examined yet.
Atsushi Nanami
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Genotype and local environment dynamically influence growth, disturbance response and survivorship in the threatened coral, Acropora cervicornis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The relationship between the coral genotype and the environment is an important area of research in degraded coral reef ecosystems. We used a reciprocal outplanting experiment with 930 corals representing ten genotypes on each of eight reefs to ...
Crawford Drury +2 more
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Multiple occupancy-abundance patterns in staghorn coral communities
, 2013 Aim: Understanding patterns in a species' occupancy and abundance across multiple scales is important for management purposes, particularly for protecting threatened species.
C. Wallace (7602467) +4 more
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Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 2021 Acropora cervicornis is one of the most important coral species in shallow reefs of the Caribbean as it provides habitat and structural complexity to several species of invertebrates and fish. However, the distribution range of A. cervicornis has shrunk
Stephanie J. Martinez +4 more
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Biota Colombiana, 2014 Between 10 and 13 March 2011 a nursery for the propagation and growth of Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) was built in the vicinity of Tesoro Island (Corales del Rosario and San Bernardo National Natural Park, Caribean Sea, Colombia), in which 48 ...
Esteban Zarza +4 more
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Cost Benefit Analysis of Restocking the Threatened Caribbean Staghorn Coral on the Florida Reef Tract [PDF]
, 2019 Once a dominant structure building coral on shallow water reefs throughout the Caribbean and western Atlantic, staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) has experienced precipitous regional declines in abundance since the 1970s, the result of a multitude of ...
Cavasos, Kevin
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Optimizing the productivity of a coral nursery focused on staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis [PDF]
, 2015 The rapid decline of the staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis throughout the Caribbean prompted the development of coral gardening as a management strategy to restore wild stocks. Given that coral gardening relies on propagating corals collected from wild
Bejarano, S +9 more
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