Coral reef composition within the MNC
Coral reef community composition in the context of disturbance history on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 2 Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom Abstract Much research ...
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The sponge microbiome within the greater coral reef microbial metacommunity
... greater coral reef microbial ...fic coral reef ...multiple coral reef biotopes, and that, although compositionally distinct, the sponge prokaryote community does not appear to be ...
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The Composition and Distribution of Benthic Foraminifera at Coral Reef Ecosystem in Thousands Island
... with coral reef ...foraminifers’ composition and distribution in sediment of coral reef ...highest composition of symbiont-bearing foraminiferal assemblages which associated with ...
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The Semantic Reef: an eco-informatics approach for modelling coral bleaching within the Great Barrier Reef
... a reef, at a given time, has a current temperature reading greater than the LSMT, then determine the SST+ anomaly amount and fill the new functional data-type property; ‘isSSTplusTempOf’, with its value for use in ...
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Patterns, causes, and consequences of connectivity within a coral reef fish metapopulation
... that within continuous regions of the reef, gene flow may decline slightly as geographic distance between sites ...barrier reef, it was suggested that more extensive spatial sampling may reveal an IBD ...
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Chemical alarm cues are conserved within the coral reef fish family Pomacentridae
... Stimuli were assigned randomly to the tanks. Individuals were tested for their response to one skin extract only. A total of 150 fish were tested (18–20 individuals per treatment). The behaviour of the focal fish was ...
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Within-reef differences in diet and body condition of coral-feeding butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae)
... for Coral Reef Biodiversity, School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia ABSTRACT: Given the highly stochastic nature of ...
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BAHAMAS CORAL REEF GUIDE
... POLYPS Coral are colonial animals consisting of many polyps. An individual coral polyp resembles a tiny sea anemone and contains within its body tissues minute symbiotic algae, known as ...the ...
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Diversity of coral reef fishes
... THI 34.62 39.23 41.11 39.01 23.05 39.81 15.04 28.67 39.29 0 0 THA 22.03 21.96 14.24 42.61 23.81 25.02 6.96 48.63 31.38 32.10 0 Studies on the environmental characteristics of the marine environment are important in ...
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The role of cryptobenthic reef fishes in coral reef trophodynamics
... cryptobenthic reef fish ...cryptobenthic reef fish commu- nity in our study. It is present not only within the epilithic algal matrix (sensu Wilson & Bellwood 1997) on hard substrata, but also on ...
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Variability in the functional composition of coral reef fish communities on submerged and emergent reefs in the central Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... study within the Cairns sector shows variance in fish communities among relatively small depth ranges (6–30 m) and therefore we recommend that caution should be used when com- paring LTMP data to fish communities ...
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Habitat structure, disturbance and the composition of sand-dwelling goby assemblages in a coral reef lagoon
... ABSTRACT: Coral reef lagoons and back reef areas are composed more of sand than hard reef habi- ...sites within each ...from reef, topography, disturbance of different types, ...
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Coral Reef Conservation Program. nternational. NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program International Strategy
... Micronesia. Within this region, the CRCP will support coral reef conservation efforts that build on synergies with the national CRCP priorities and promote basin- wide ...for coral reef ...
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Spectral reflectance of coral reef bottom-types worldwide and implications for coral reef remote sensing
... Abstract Coral reef benthic communities are mosaics of individual bottom-types that are distinguished by their taxonomic composition and functional roles in the ...of reef bottom-types using ...
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Recovery trajectories of coral reef fish assemblages within Kenyan marine protected areas
... of coral reef fish in 4 fully closed marine protected areas (MPAs) with different ages were studied over a 17 yr ...of coral reef fish assemblages in terms of abundance–biomass is considerably ...
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Methods for assessment of short-term coral reef fish movements within an acoustic array
... With a limited budget, optimally designing an acoustic array involves balancing the interplay between receiver spacing, detection rates, positioning error, and the par- ticular objectives of the movement study. Our ...
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Coral reef degradation alters the isotopic niche of reef fishes
... 547 2220-2234 548 Wilson SK, Graham NAJ, Polunin NVC (2007) Appraisal of visual assessments of habitat 549 complexity and benthic composition on coral reefs. Mar Biol 151: 1069-1076 550 Wilson SK, Adjeroud ...
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Spatial Ecology of Reef Fish in Backreef and Coral Reef Habitats.
... matrix approach has been found effective to predict dispersal pathways and population dynamics for many species, including invertebrates (e.g. Johnson et al. 1992; Firle et al. 1998; Jonsen et al. 2001; Goodwin and ...
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CiteSeerX — Evaluation of stony coral indicators for coral reef management
... in coral condition if 30 stations were compared either in different years or different ...community composition, and that the indicators were sufficiently robust to overcome habitat variability at this ...
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Testing the relationship between microbiome composition and flux of carbon and nutrients in Caribbean coral reef sponges
... The presence and expression of functional genes encod- ing for key metabolic enzymes offers additional insight into nutrient cycling within the sponge microbiome. Herein, we detected ammonia monooxygenase (amoA) ...
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