Yin, Xueying, 尹雪莹

Coral trout, Plectropomus Ieopardus, is a high-volume, high-priced species in the international live reef food fish trade. Each year more than 8,000 tonnes of fish, worth over a billion Hong Kong dollars, are exported from the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia for consumption in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Its wild populations are believed to be declining in all major source countries with the exception of Australia which manages its fisheries. Concerns over the sustainability of ...

Pascal, Nicolas

Economic approaches through ecosystem services (ES) valuation are increasingly recommended by conservation organisations to face main market externalities affecting biodiversity in general and coral reef ecosystems. In this dissertation, we will analyse the experience of two economic valuations of coral reef ecosystems in the Pacific focusing on two aspects. The first is to evaluate if current methods of Coral Reef Ecosystem Services Valuation (CRESV) permits to transmit a correct signal about E...

Puebla, Oscar

The marine environment presents fewer absolute geographic barriers to gene flow than its terrestrial and freshwater counterparts. In addition, the prevalence of planktonic larval stages in marine taxa provides potential for gene flow across large geographic distances. These observations raise two fundamental questions. How do new species arise in the marine environment? Considering the potential for gene flow in marine systems, it remains unclear to what extent allopatric speciation alone can ac...

MacGeachy, James Kirk.

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Montoya-Maya, Phanor H.

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been established along the East African coast to protect coral communities from human and natural disturbance. Their success is dependent on the degree to which resource populations are self-seeding or otherwise connected. Estimates of contemporary gene flow on or between south-east African reefs are thus required to reveal the interdependence of the South African coral communities and those to the north. Accordingly, the ecologically relevant (1 or 2 generatio...

Gordon, Andrew Ross

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Mörk, Erik

Although rather inconspicuous on healthy coral reefs, macroalgae form the basis of coral food webs. Today, macroalgae are generally increasing and many reefs undergo transitions from coral to macroalgal dominance resulting from e.g. enhanced nutrient loading or increased fishing. This thesis aims to investigate the relative importance of top-down and bottom-up regulation, and different herbivore types, on macroalgal distribution, fecundity and community composition on coral reefs. Papers I and I...

Prada Montoya, Carlos Andrés

Since Darwin, biologists wonder how organisms cope with environmental variation, why there are so many species, and how species form. In my dissertation, I explore how species of long-lived, clonal reef organisms originate across depth gradients. In Chapter 2, I evaluate the strength of depth to isolate populations by comparing the genes and morphologies of pairs of depth-segregated populations of the candelabrum coral Eunicea flexuosa across the Caribbean. Eunicea flexuosa is a long-lived clona...

Frydl, Paul M.

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Allard, Patrick, 1968-

Multivariate ordination techniques were used to characterize the direction and magnitude of coral community changes on west coast reefs in Barbados between 1982 and 1992, and to relate these changes to coastal eutrophication and variation in Diadema antillarum densities (grazing pressure). D. antillarum densities were substantially lower in 1992 than in 1982, reflecting the 1983 mass mortality event. Reductions in urchin density were greater on less eutrophic reefs than eutrophic reefs. Cover by...

Sealey-Baker, Mamie

Dive tourism is a growing and important industry which is often reliant on a high quality natural environment. As dive tourism’s significance grows due to its economic and ecological impacts on many tropical destinations, it is important to understand how this special-interest tourism may be affected by environmental change. Mass coral bleaching episodes, a phenomenon with potentially severe implications for the health of coral reef ecosystems, have been increasing in intensity and frequency o...

Huang, Ke-jhih

To discover novel and bioactive secondary metabolites is a main mission for natural product researchers. Soft corals of the genus Sinularia were proved to yield a wide variety of secondary metabolites including sesquiterpenoids, diterpenoids and steroids. In the thesis, the chemical examinations on the organic extracts of the soft coral Sinularia capillosa (collected at Dongsha Islands) resulted in the isolation of ten secondary metabolites (1¡V10) including five new secondary metabolites (1¡V5)...

Chuang, Cheng-ta

Numerous bioactive secondary metabolites have been isolated from the soft coral in recent years. In order to search for more bioactive secondary metabolites, we have investigated the chemical constituents of the organic extracts soft coral Sinularia gyrosa, collected at Dongsha island. Chromatography separation have led to the isolation of six new norcembranoid compounds, gyrosolides A¡VF (1¡V6), and two new diterpenoids, gyrosanols A and B (7 and 8), as well as eleven known norcembranoids (9¡V1...

Garfield, Eliza Newell

This thesis is composed of two articles. The first is an analysis of long-term survival among A. cervicornis outplants in the Florida Keys, from 2007 to the present. The second is a review of literature that informs coral restoration and guides both restoration practitioners and coral researchers towards greater effectiveness in outplant survival and understanding biological processes involved in restoration. In the first article, despite promising initial evidence of outplant survival and he...

Burmester, Elizabeth

Coral reefs are declining globally, calling for better ways to quantify coral health and predict resilience to future stress. The relationship between bleaching and fitness is key, as is reserve capacity to deal with physical trauma. This dissertation is an integrative study of the coral-algal symbiosis, holobiont performance under varied environmental conditions, and interactions between holobiont and environment on coral colony health and ability to recover from routine partial damage. I utili...

Holcomb, Michael (Michael C.)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2010. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / The mechanisms involved in the formation of coral skeletons are examined using a laboratory model for coral calcification and the growth of living corals under different environmental condi...

DeCarlo, Thomas Mario

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2017. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / Scleractinian corals extract calcium (Ca²⁺) and carbonate (CO₃²⁻) ions from seawater to construct their calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) skeletons. Key to the coral biomineralization process ...

Roik, Anna Krystyna

Despite high temperature and salinity conditions that challenge reef growth in other oceans, the Red Sea maintains amongst the most biodiverse and productive coral reefs worldwide. It is therefore an important region for the exploration of coral reef functioning, and expected to contribute valuable insights towards the understanding of coral reefs in challenging environments. This dissertation assessed the baseline variability of in situ abiotic conditions (temperature, dissolved oxygen, p...

McDevitt-Irwin, Jamie

Diverse and abundant coral associated microbial communities may play a key role in coral resistance to and recovery from unwavering stressors currently threatening coral reefs worldwide. The composition and structure of the coral microbiome is integral to coral health as microbes can play beneficial (e.g. nutritional or protective) or negative (e.g. pathogenic or opportunistic) roles in the coral. To review the impacts of stressors on the coral microbiome, I compiled data from 39 studies, each...

Aiello, Danielle P.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Branton, Margaret A.

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Dunn, Elizabeth M., 1984-

A monthly resolved, 133 year record of coral Sr/Ca variations has been developed from a massive Porites coral that was drilled in the shallow waters of a submerged carbonate platform (Sabine Bank, 15.9°S, 166.14°E) located ~50 km west of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. This truly open-ocean site, at which daily measurements of temperature and salinity are available for ~ 6 years, permits the reconstruction of local environmental variability using variations in coral skeletal geochemistry. Coral Sr/Ca-S...

Wang, Yixin

Connectivity is an important component of coral reef studies for its role in the enhancement of ecosystem resilience. Previous genetic structure and physical circulation studies in the Red Sea reveal a homogeneity within the coral reef complexes in the central and northern parts of the basin. Yet, genetic isolation and relatively low connectivity has been observed in the southern Red Sea. Raitsos et al. (2017) recently hypothesized that coral reefs in the southern Red Sea are more connected with...

Rädecker, Nils

For millions of years, the nutrient exchange symbiosis between corals and their endosymbiotic algae has formed the foundation of the ecological success of coral reefs. Yet, in recent decades anthropogenic climate change is increasingly destabilizing this symbiosis, and thus the reefs that rely on it. High-temperature anomalies have caused mass mortality of corals due to repeated coral bleaching, the expulsion or digestion of symbionts by the host during stress. Hence, in-depth knowledge of the c...

Rickborn, Alissa Jean

Sessile communities provide an ideal opportunity to understand how population interactions are structured in space, and in turn, how this structure influences population dynamics. The yellow tube sponge, Aplysina fistularis is common on Caribbean coral reefs and is involved in four main types of ecological interactions: symbiosis, predation, disease, and competition. We used spatial and multivariate analysis to describe the population structure of A. fistularis on the Belizean barrier reef, and ...

Kneeland, Jessie M. (Jessie Mary)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2011. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / Corals are increasingly threatened by warming sea surface temperatures and other anthropogenic changes. The delicate symbiosis between corals and their algal endosymbionts (zooxanthellae) ...

Greenfield, Louise, Ruiz, Richard, Knowles, Tim, Jury, Steven N., Rule, Amy, de Farber, Bess, Walsh, Brenda G.

'A Digital Oral History and Transcription Project of the First Bilingual/Bicultural School in the US' Poster presentation from the Living the Future 7 Conference, April 30-May 3, 2008, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, AZ. / The University of Arizona Libraries is partnering with the UA College of Education, Historical Museum of South Florida and the University of Miami Special Collections Library to create, and make electronically accessible, an oral history of the first federally funded ...

Harikishun, Ameil

This study assessed the bleaching response (BR) of coral colonies within the central reef complex in Sodwana Bay, South Africa. Bleach surveys were conducted at 16 sites on 8 reefs over the period of 2007 to 2013. A total of 12 858 coral colonies from 30 taxa were randomly sampled and colonies were placed into 7 categories of bleaching response. This allowed for the calculation of taxon-specific BR as a weighted percentage of coral cover bleached. Continuous temperature records from a permanent ...

Hehre, Edward James III

Seascapes are being transformed by human activities through a variety of spatially extensive extractive uses. This industrialization has the potential to radically alter the ecology of our oceans. Through focused ecosystem-based management of already degraded systems, it may be possible to create novel ecosystems that maximize benefits for humans, while increasing the diversity and abundance of dependent communities. In this thesis I examine seaweed farming on degraded coral reef ecosystems in or...

Scott, P. J. B.

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Kuei-Shu, Li

Thesis (M.A.)--National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of Geosciences / Includes bibliographical references

George, Sarah N.

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Diekmann, Onno Everhardus.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Epstein, Nimrod.

Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met bibliogr., lit. opg.

Hardt, Marah Justine.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 10, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Ossolinski, Justin Emerson.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Jonathan H. Sharp, College of Marine and Earth Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

Dirhamsyah.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: p. 301-325.

Jacobson, Ellen C

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-44). / vi, 44 leaves, bound ill. (some col.) 29 cm

Jokiel, Paul L

Statement of purpose: The scope of this dissertation was restricted to exemplary studies on the effects of spectrum, intensity and modulation (as described above) of the photic environment of the common reef coral Pocillopora damicornis and its symbiotic dinoflagellate algae. Various aspects of its biology were investigated. In some cases direct comparison was wade with othar species to emphasize similarities or differences. The central hypothesis of this dissertation can be stated as follows: S...

Collinson, Peter Ronald James.

published_or_final_version / Ecology and Biodiversity / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Kenkel, Carly Danielle

Environmental variation is ubiquitous in natural systems. The genetic and physiological mechanisms governing population-level responses to this variation will impact the process of speciation and the capacity for populations to persist in a changing climate. Until recently, population-level responses to environmental selection remained largely unexplored in marine systems due to the historical assumption that the inherently dispersive nature of most marine taxa would preclude their ability to sp...

Rasher, Douglas B.

Corals, the foundation species of tropical reefs, are in rapid global decline as a result of anthropogenic disturbance. On many reefs, losses of coral have coincided with the over-harvesting of reef herbivores, resulting in ecosystem phase-shifts from coral to macroalgal dominance. It is hypothesized that abundant macroalgae inhibit coral recovery and recruitment, thereby generating ecological feedback processes that reinforce phase-shifts to macroalgae and further diminish reef function. Notwit...

Van Wagenen, Gertrude

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Ana Rita Nunes Moura Polónia Correia

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Bosshart, Sara A. (Sara Allison)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Marine Geology and Geophysics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-85). / Accurate predictions of Caribbean coral reef responses to global climate change are currently limited by a lack of knowledge of the dominant environmental controls on coral growth. Corals exhib...

Aswani, Shankar, Mumby, Peter J, Baker, Andrew, Christie, Patrick, McCook, Laurence J, Steneck, Robert S, Richmond, Robert H

Coral reefs are subjected globally to a variety of natural and anthropogenic stressors that often act synergistically. Today, reversing ongoing and future coral reef degradation presents significant challenges and countering this negative trend will take considerable efforts and investments. Scientific knowledge can inform and guide the requisite decision-making process and offer practical solutions to the problem of protection as the effects of climate change exacerbate. However, implementation...

Sun, Yanan

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Key, Carol

The development of tourism and more importantly eco-tourism has emerged as a primary objective for the government of Belize, Central America. This study examines two villages Seine Bight and Placencia located on a peninsula occupied by separate ethnic groups (Garifuna and Creole) that is located on a peninsula in Southern Belize. Seine Bight and Placencia are undergoing a change in economic activity to tourism. The study attempts to understand the role of ethnicity, socio-economic status, amo...

Jordan, Ingrid Elizabeth.

Coral reefs are being destroyed and degraded by natural and anthropogenic processes. Live corals are becoming increasingly popular as marine aquarium specimens, in both the commercial and private sectors, leading to the degradation of coral reefs. This often has serious economic implications for the fishing, aquarium and tourist industries. It is clear that there is a need for the management and protection of these fragile ecosystems. The artificial propagation of coral is desirable as it will a...

Claar, Danielle C.

Coral reefs, the planet’s most diverse marine ecosystems, are threatened globally by climate change and locally by overfishing and pollution. The dynamic partnership between coral and their endosymbiotic algae (Symbiodinium) is the foundation of all tropical reef ecosystems. Symbiodinium provide coral with nutrients for growth, but stress can break down this symbiosis, causing coral bleaching. There are also life-history trade-offs amongst Symbiodinium types - some provide coral with more nutrit...