Lin, Guey-Lee, 林貴理

碩士 / 國立中山大學 / 海洋資源學系 / 85 / Green fluorescent proteins (GFP) occur commonly in coelenterates. The same green fluorescent phenomenon is also observed in scleratinian coral, yet this was not well studied before. In this experiment, the distribution of green fluorescent material in Euphyllia glabrescens was first examined by fluorescent microscopy. This material was further isolated, characterized using fluorescent spectrum photometer and analyzed by SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. The results showed th...

Fahrudin, Achmad.

University, Diss., 2003--Kiel.

DeLong, Kristine L.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of South Florida, 2006. / Title from PDF of title page. Document formatted into pages; contains 111 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Souter, Petra,

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Univ., 2007. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Hogrefe, Kyle Richard.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2009. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

Lundblad, Emily Ruth

Coral reef ecosystems are the most diverse on earth, and their subsistence is being threatened by natural and adverse anthropogenic patterns and processes. In an effort to understand and protect these marine environments, several programs have outlined strategies and initiatives. For example, the United States Coral Reef Task Force���s Mapping and Information Working Group has outlined a specific goal to map all coral reefs below 30 m depth by 2009. This study contributes to achieving that goal ...

Cornish, Andrew S.

published_or_final_version / Ecology and Biodiversity / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Cheng, Jen-Cheng, 城振誠

碩士 / 國立海洋大學 / 水產養殖學系 / 85 / The banded coral shrimp (stenopus hispidus) can be found living in pairs insmall cracks in the reef and it is a popular species foraquarium. The markets of this species rely on natural resource exclusuvely because the larval rearing has not succeeded. The experiments sttempt to realize the most suitable temperautre,salinity and prey density for the larval, and the larval developm...

Chen, Ming Hui, 陳明輝

碩士 / 國立中山大學 / 海洋生物研究所 / 84 / Different host specificity is commonn in symbiotic organism. Larval preference, post-settlement mortality and juvenile (or adult) preference are the possible mechanisms. In this study, I use highly host specific coral-inhabiting snail Coralliophila violacea as a model example to investigate the mechanism of host specificity and the host effect on symbiotic organisms. I surveyed ...

Hereid, Kelly Ann

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) dominates global interannual climate variability. However, the imprint of anthropogenic climate change hinders understanding of natural ENSO variability. Model predictions of the response of future ENSO variability to anthropogenic forcing are highly uncertain. A better understanding of how ENSO operates during different mean climate states may improve predictions of its future behavior. This study develops a technique to quantify the response of tropical...

Ludt, William Benton

Sea levels fluctuated following glacial cycles during the Pleistocene, reaching approximately 115-130m below current sea levels in the Indian and Pacific Oceans during the last glacial maximum 17,000 years before present. The effects of these sea level fluctuations on population structure have been shown in many near-shore marine taxa, revealing several common patterns. However, the underlying mechanisms behind these observed patterns are largely unknown. Drops in sea level affect the distrib...

Yu-Ling Pan, 潘玉玲

碩士 / 國立中山大學 / 海洋資源學系研究所 / 90 / In order to search for bioactive substances from marine organisms,the Taiwanese soft coral Clavularia inflata,collected along the coast of Green Island,Taiwan,was studied because of its significant cytotoxicity against NUGC-3 and HONE-1 cancer cell lines in EtOAc extract. Bioassay-guided fractionation resulted in the isolation of five diterpenoids,including four known compounds, ( 1R*, 12R* ) - dolabella- 4 (16), 7, 10- triene- 3, 13- dione (1),stolonidiol monoacet...

水間, 千恵

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Gilmour, James Paton

[Truncated abstract] Most ecological research investigates the demography of organisms, which can be summarised by their population dynamics and structure. Population dynamics are the rates of birth, growth, reproduction and survival of individuals, which determine the number of individuals in different stage classes, or, the population structure. Understanding the demography of organisms is particularly difficult, and requires the application of different methods of investigation. A number of...

Mann, Gary S. (Gary Seymour)

Effects of variation in eutrophication and in Diadema antillarum densities (grazing pressure) on the abundance and life history characteristics of Favia fragum on seven reefs along the west coast of Barbados were investigated. Densities of D. antillarum were negatively correlated with eutrophication levels, and interpretations of their effects have been made simultaneously. Abundance of F. fragum was lower on more eutrophic reefs with lower D. antillarum densities. This may result from effects o...

Zamagni, Jessica

Modern anthropogenic forcing of atmospheric chemistry poses the question of how the Earth System will respond as thousands of gigatons of greenhouse gas are rapidly added to the atmosphere. A similar, albeit nonanthropogenic, situation occurred during the early Paleogene, when catastrophic release of carbon to the atmosphere triggered abrupt increase in global temperatures. The best documented of these events is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, ~55 Ma) when the magnitude of carbon add...

LI, YOU, 李優

碩士 / 國立高雄海洋科技大學 / 水產食品科學研究所 / 106 / Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer death worldwide. In recent years, many bioactive ingredients have been identified from corals and have been demonstrated to possess various bioactivities in vitro, such as anti-inflammatory activity, antibacterial activity, and cytotoxicity towards cancer cells. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the coral extract of Briareum had anti-cancer effec...

Nai-Cheng Lin, 林乃正

碩士 / 國立東華大學 / 海洋生物多樣性及演化研究所 / 95 / The outbreaks of some marine organisms result in phase shift of community structure and degradation of ecosystem function. However, the process, reason, and mechanism for these changes in community composition are not yet known. On the coral reefs of southern Taiwan, specifically in two locations in Nanwan Bay, solitary sea anemones (Mesactinia genesis) and macroalgae have replaced branching Acropora corals and become the dominant benthic groups. Ecological mon...

Coral reefs on Florida’s Reef Tract (FRT) are susceptible to many anthropogenic influences including controlled freshwater discharges and agricultural runoff as well as high natural environmental variability from seasonal rainfall, runoff and upwelling. To better understand coral population structure and responses to sublethal stressors, populations of the scleractinian coral Montastraea cavernosa in the northern FRT were examined using a combination of genomic and transcriptomic techniques...

Cordie, David Russell

Coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems in the world and provide economic value as well as biodiversity stability. Yet, these ecosystems are threatened from human degradation and climate change. Phylogenetic reconstructions can help identify which species have a potential to undergo greater amounts of change in the near future and also aids in determining evolutionary distinctiveness, which are critical components of conservation management. However, traditional Scleractinia morpholo...

Pu, Jaan H.

Yes / Coral reefs are important ecosystems that not only provide shelter and breeding ground for many marine species, but can also control of carbon dioxide level in ocean and act as coastal protection mechanism. Reduction of coral reefs at Singapore coastal waters (SCW) region remains as an important study to identify the environmental impact from its busy industrial activities especially at the surrounding of Jurong Island in the south. This kind of study at SCW was often being related to issu...

Hulver, Ann

The Red Sea is one of the warmest, saltiest, and most oligotrophic seas in the world that supports a healthy and extremely diverse coral reef ecosystem. Increasing development along the Saudi Arabian coast may increase eutrophication due to impacts of human population and also oil pollution from increased shipping traffic and refinery activity. The risk of oil pollution combined with increased eutrophication due to coastal development provides a clear stressor interaction which is vastly underst...

Pu, Jaan H., Guo, Yakun, Rahman, M.A., Hanmaiahgari, P.R.

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Iliona Pereira Dias Wolfowicz

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Schrader, Julian

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Li, Sheng Nan

University of Macau / Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences

Champagne, Tracy Ann Neil

The University of Iowa Paleontology Repository maintains an extensive collection of Caribbean coral specimens. This study includes 285 specimens, of which approximately 75 are thin-sections of three previously identified Oligocene genera including: Montastraea Blainville, 1830 (=Orbicella Dana 1846), Antiguastrea Vaughan, 1919, and Agathiphyllia Reuss, 1864 (=Cyathomorpha Reuss, 1868). This study includes: photography of colony surfaces and thin-sections of representative specimens of each speci...

Coral reefs worldwide are experiencing unprecedented and rapid declines. However, deeper, mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs; 30–150 m) may act as refuges for coral species, providing larvae to recolonize degraded shallow reefs. This study assessed the genetic connectivity of shallow and mesophotic Montastraea cavernosa populations on the Belize Barrier Reef and the community structure of their endosymbiotic algae (Family Symbiodiniaceae) across a fine-scale depth gradient (10, 16, 25, 35 m). Eva...

Severe weather events that accompany climatic changes have been the main focus of many studies that want to highlight the large processes that surround us every day. These studies are based on years of data collection and other studies to help aid their pursuits. An area of major focus is identifying proxies and supplementary materials that help refine climate records of the geologic past. This study aims to identify reliable proxies for obtaining a record of severe weather events. The research ...

Carpenter, Lawrence W.

Water-flow is a vital component to the life histories of sessile marine invertebrates and essential to the structure and function of coral reefs. Recent studies have identified water-flow as an asset in the resistance to and recovery from short-term bleaching events of high irradiance and thermal increases. to determine whether the benefits of water-flow scale from the landscape level down to the flow patterns experienced over individual polyps and to quantify potential metabolic consequences, t...

Niebuhr, David Harold

Lipid quality was evaluated in Montastrea spp. under sediment- and heat-stressed conditions to evaluate lipid ratio as an indicator of sub-lethal stress on short time scales. The ratio of storage lipid (wax ester + triacylglyceride) to structural lipid (sterol esters + phospholipid) decreased significantly (0.25 to 0.14, p < 0.01) after experimental sedimentation. FAME analysis of colonies exposed to experimental sedimentation showed a reduction of the algal, 18:3(n-6) and 18:4(n-3), polyunsatur...

"The purpose of this study was to determine whether the educational levels attained by epileptic male veterans at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida had a bearing on their employment as revealed by the analysis of nine selected items of information. The sample comprised thirty-four epileptic male veterans dichotomized by their educational level--an eleventh grade education or less, more than an eleventh grade education--who were treated as patients within a four month pe...

Coral reefs have been increasingly reported as ecosystems in severe "crisis" and decline, with estimates of irreparably damaged reefs to be around 54%, and possible losses of 15-20% more over the next half-century. The urgency to mitigate these declines has increased in recent years as the effects of global climate change have become apparent alongside steadily increasing population pressures in coastal communities. However, management efforts are generally paralyzed by a variety of competing di...

The Gulf of Mexico, one of the most geomorphologically complex oceanic basin, is also one of the most prolific hydrocarbon reserves in the world. It hosts a varied range of marine communities from shallow reefs and estuarine communities in coastal areas, to deep-sea and chemosynthetic communities in greater depths. In some particular areas in water depth between 50 to 120 m are hosted the mesophotic reef ecosystem, also known as the twilight communities, where sunlight...

Seamounts are largely unexplored undersea mountains rising abruptly from the ocean floor. These unique habitats can support an increased abundance and diversity of organisms, due to increased flow rates, the presence of hard substrates, and potentially, hydrographic larval retention mechanisms. Oceanic islands, sharing geomorphic characteristics, are a subset of seamounts. Suspension feeders, such as deep-sea corals, are common benthic megafauna in these ecosystems. Deep-sea corals are associate...

Newark, Ruth F.

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Coral reef declines, particularly in coastal zones, have been linked to thermal stress and anthropogenic impacts on water quality. St. Lucie Reef near Stuart, Florida receives increased estuarine efflux as a result of watershed changes and management policies that have substantially altered historic, natural flows. This research used ambient and elevated temperatures (25°C and 30°C, respectively), and offshore versus St. Lucie Estuarine discharge water to investigate the individual and inte...

Burke, Andrea, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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), 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / Radioactive isotopes can be used in paleoceanography both for dating samples and as tracers of ocean processes. Here I use radiocarbon and uranium series isotopes to investigate the ocean'...

Alpert, Alice Elizabeth

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), 2016. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Page 156/Figure B-1 contains text that runs off the edge of the page margin. / Includes bibliographical references. / Paleoclimate archives place the short instrumental record of climate variability in a longer temporal conte...

Reverter, Miriam

Les parasites sont une partie très importante des écosystèmes, néanmoins, dans certains cas tels que l’aquaculture ils causent des épidémies. Dans cette thèse j’ai étudié les interactions hôte-parasite chez les poissons coralliens, dans les milieux naturels et les milieux aquacoles. J’ai étudié l’arrangement des communautés de 13 espèces de monogènes de 34 espèces de poissons papillon dans l’Indo-Pacifique. Les résultats montrent qu’il existe un patron de distribution stable des espèces, ce qui,...

Alkonti, Assaedi Basher Mohamed

Aim: To evaluate the morphological patterns of bone induction by coral-derived vs highly sintered hydroxyapatite constructs. Methods: Twenty-eight (28) histological slides of harvested tissue samples from the rectus abdominis muscle of adult baboons of both coral-derived and highly sintered hydroxyapatite specimens were histologically examined to describe the induction of bone formation along the macroporous spaces of the hydroxyapatite (HA) substrata and the development of osteoblast-like cell...

Perna, Gabriela

Coral bleaching is now the main driver of reef degradation. The common notion is that most corals bleach and suffer mortality at just 1-2°C above their mean summer maximum temperatures, but some species and genotypes resist or recover better than others. Here we conducted a series of 18-hour short-term heat stress assays side-by-side with a long-term heat stress experiment to assess the ability of both approaches to resolve putative differences in coral thermotolerance and provide a measure of i...

Khalil, Maha T.

Combined knowledge of the pelagic larval duration of coral species and coral recruitment patterns can provide evidence of inter-reef connectivity and indicate a reef’s ability to recover. We attempted to determine the maximum pelagic larval duration of Acropora humilis. Larvae were reared in a controlled environment unfavorable for settlement. The larvae lived in a pelagic state for a maximum of 29 days, although this is probably an underestimate of actual longevity for this species. Given the i...

Bernstein, Whitney Nicole

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), 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / Predicting the response of net community calcification (NCC) to ocean acidification OA and declining aragonite saturation state [Omega]a requires a thorough understanding of controls on NC...

McMahon, Kelton Wells

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2011. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-166). / The ecological integrity of tropical habitats, including mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs, is coming under increasing pressure from human activities. Many coral reef fish species are thought to use mang...

Fuchs, Eran, 1963-

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-90). / by Eran Fux. / S.M.

Dunning, Kelly Heber

Thesis: Ph. D. in Natural Resource Management, Planning and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2016. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-275). / This dissertation examines two countries, Indonesia and Malaysia, and their pathways to implementing the international Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), specifically focused on how regional and national policies in Southeast Asia have fared...

Botero, Maria Antónia

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012. / Odd numbered pages are numbered only. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / This design project was an experimental case study to establish a viable, reduced-size typological alternative for single-family housing as a potential vehicle for the densification of the urban suburbs. Through demographic and census data, the need for this kind of densification was first establi...

Ma Wai Chun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-150). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iii / 論文摘要 --- p.vii / Table of contents --- p.x / List of table --- p.xii / List of figure --- p.xiii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- General introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Studies on coral population dynamics --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- The study site --- p.5 / Chapter 1.3 --- The e...

by Tam Tze Wai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-114). / Abstract also in Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.v / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.vi / LIST OF TABLES --- p.viii / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.ix / Chapter CHAPTER1 --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Modelling the Dynamics of a Coral Community --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- New Paradigm in Understanding Complex System --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Ecologica...