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Sustainable Futures, 2020 Coral reefs provide many benefits to the society, including ecological nest for aquatic species, medicine ingredient, and protection of coastlines from flooding and storms.
Hamidreza Sharifan
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Observations of deep coral and sponge assemblages in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, Washington. Cruise Report: NOAA Ship McArthur II Cruise AR06-07/07 [PDF]
, 2007 From May 22 to June 4, 2006, NOAA scientists led a research cruise using the ROPOS Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to conduct a series of dives at targeted sites in the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS) with the goal of documenting deep ...
Bowlby, C. E. +4 more
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.Land cover change that leads to increased nutrient and sediment runoff is an important driver of change in coral reef ecosystems. In this study, we combined satellite remote sensing and field monitoring to assess concomitant changes in watershed land cover and coral cover in northeastern Puerto Rico in 2000–2015.
Pirta Palola +5 more
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Dietary resilience of coral reef fishes to habitat degradation
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Metabarcoding of gut contents shows that two common benthic‐feeding reef fishes with different feeding stratgies—a butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus) and a hamlet (Hypoplectrus puella)—shift diets on degraded reefs. These shifts mirror contrasting patterns in body condition: butterflyfish showed strong individual variation, whereas condition was ...
Friederike Clever +9 more
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Stony corals (Scleractinia) from the Marías Islands, Mexican Pacific
Ciencias Marinas, 2006 Recent studies performed off the Pacific coast of Mexico have shown a large number of reefs or coral patches in the region, but information is still lacking for some areas.
TL Pérez-Vivar +2 more
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Half a century of echinoid population decline in the northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Multi‐decadal monitoring in the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea, reveals severe (>90%) declines of key echinoid grazers. These declines signify a collapse of crucial herbivory functions underpinning coral reef resilience. Results implicate accelerating anthropogenic stress as a principal driver, emphasizing the urgent need for sustained, species ...
Gal Eviatar, Omri Bronstein
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The Hidden Cost of Overfishing To Commercial Fishermen: A 2009 Snapshot of Lost Revenues [PDF]
, 2011 Ocean fish populations are a vital renewable resource for human populations, providing food,employment and recreation, as well as contributing to global biodiversity.
Taylor Hesselgrave
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Stony coral tissue loss disease indirectly alters reef communities
Science AdvancesMany Caribbean coral reefs are near collapse due to various threats. An emerging threat, stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD), is spreading across the Western Atlantic and Caribbean. Data from the U.S. Virgin Islands reveal how SCTLD spread has reduced the abundance of susceptible coral and crustose coralline algae and increased cyanobacteria, fire ...
Sara D. Swaminathan +3 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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A constructive approach for the generation of underwater environments [PDF]
, 2015 This paper introduces Coralize, a library of generators for marine organisms such as corals and sponges. Using constructive algorithms, Coralize can generate stony corals via L-system grammars, soft corals via leaf venation algorithms and sponges via
Abela, Ryan +3 more
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