Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
A world leader in marine biological research with focus on coral reef science and shark conservation, The Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Oceanographic Center has been at the forefront of graduate and undergraduate marine science education and oceanographic research for over 49 years. Students, scientists, faculty and staff come to the Center from all corners of the globe, with the common goal of learning from the ocean's living classrooms - in one of the most diverse ecosystems known to man.
The Oceanographic Center serves as a national, regional, and community resource for information. There are several institutes, the National Coral Reef Institute for research and training on coral reef assessment, monitoring, and restoration; the Guy Harvey Research Institute for fish research and conservation, and the Save Our Seas Shark Center specializing in shark studies. The Center also implements the Broward County Sea Turtle Renesting Program. The Center's facilities include a research library for the many disciplines of marine science, conference room, classrooms, staging area, electron microscopy laboratory, darkroom, machine shop, physical oceanography laboratory, computer center, wetlab/classroom coral workshop, filtered seawater facility and research laboratories.
Submissions from 2013
Groundwater and Porewater as Major Sources of Alkalinity to a Fringing Coral Reef Lagoon (Muri Lagoon, Cook Islands), Tyler Cyronak, Isaac R. Santos, Dirk V. Erler, and Bradley D. Eyre
Permeable Coral Reef Sediment Dissolution Driven by Elevated pCO2 and Pore Water Advection, Tyler Cyronak, Isaac R. Santos, and Bradley D. Eyre
A Targeted and Adjuvanted Nanocarrier Lowers the Effective Dose of Liposomal Amphotericin B and Enhances Adaptive Immunity in Murine Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Pirouz M. Daftarian, Geoffrey W. Stone, Leticia Kovalski, Manoj Kumar, Aram Vosoughi, Maitee Urbieta, Patricia Blackwelder, Emre Dikici, Stephanie Duffort, Richard Boodoo, Alheli Rodriguez-Cortes, Vance Lemmon, Sapna Deo, Jordi Alberola, Victor L. Perez, Sylvia Daunert, and Arba L. Ager
High Numbers of Staphylococcus aureus at Three Bathing Beaches in South Florida, Nwadiuto Esiobu, Melissa Green, Andrea Echeverry, Tonya Davidian Bonilla, Corine Melanie Stinson, Aaron Hartz, Andrew Rogerson, and Donald S. McCorquodale Jr.
Synthesizing Larval Competence Dynamics and Reef-Scale Retention Reveals a High Potential for Self-recruitment in Corals, Joana Figueiredo, Andrew H. Baird, and Sean R. Connolly
Visual Acuity in Pelagic Fishes and Mollusks, Yakir L. Gagnon, Tracey Sutton, and Sonke Johnsen
Human Insulin Fibril-Assisted Synthesis of Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters in Alkaline Media Under Physiological Temperature, Andrew R. Garcia, Ivy Rahn, Sheba Johnson, Ravi Patel, Jingru Guo, Jhony Orbulescu, Miodrag Micic, Jeffrey D. Whyte, Patricia Blackwelder, and Roger M. Leblanc
On helical behavior of turbulence in the ship wake, Ephim Golbraikh, Alexander Eidelman, and Alex Soloviev
From Coral Framework to Rhodolith Bed: Sedimentary Footprint of the 1982/1983 ENSO in the Galápagos, J. Halfar and Bernhard Riegl
Assessing the Extent of Carbonate Deposition in Early Rift Settings, Paul Mitch Harris, James Ellis, and Samuel J. Purkis
Reconstruction of Family-Level Phylogenetic Relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) Using Nuclear Encoded Housekeeping Genes, Malcolm S. Hill, April L. Hill, Jose V. Lopez, Kevin J. Peterson, Shirley Pomponi, Maria C. Diaz, Robert W. Thacker, Maja Adamska, Nicole Boury-Esnault, Paco Cárdenas, Andia Chaves-Fonnegra, Elizabeth Danka, Bre-Onna De Laine, Dawn Formica, Eduardo Hajdu, Gisele Lobo-Hajdu, Sarah Klontz, Christine C. Morrow, Jignasa Patel, Bernard Picton, Davide Pisani, Deborah Pohlmann, Niamh E. Redmond, John Reed, Stacy Richey, Ana Riesgo, Ewelina Rubin, Zach Russell, Klaus Rützler, Erik A. Sperling, Michael di Stefano, James E. Tarver, and Allen G. Collins
Corals from the Persian/Arabian Gulf as Models for Thermotolerant Reef-Builders: Prevalence of Clade C3 Symbiodinium, Host Fluorescence and Ex Situ Temperature Tolerance, B. Hume, C. D'Angelo, John A. Burt, Andrew Baker, Bernhard Riegl, and Joerg Wiedenmann
Modeling the Potential Spread of the Recently Identified Non-Native Panther Grouper (Chromileptes altivelis) in the Atlantic Using a Cellular Automaton Approach, Matthew W. Johnston and Samuel J. Purkis
Fish Assemblages on a Mitigation Boulder Reef and Neighboring Hardbottom, Kirk Kilfoyle, Jessica A. Freeman, Lance K. B. Jordan, T. Patrick Quinn, and Richard E. Spieler
Tracking Transmission of Apicomplexan Symbionts in Diverse Caribbean Corals, Nathan L. Kirk, Raphael Ritson-Williams, Mary Alice Coffroth, Margaret W. Miller, Nicole D. Fogarty, and Scott R. Santos
Swordfish Vertical Distribution and Habitat Use in Relation to Diel and Lunar Cycles in the Western North Atlantic, Justin D. Lerner, David W. Kerstetter, Eric D. Prince, Liana Talaue-McManus, Eric S. Orbesen, Arthur Mariano, Derke Snodgrass, and Gary L. Thomas
Modulation of Light-Enhancement to Symbiotic Algae by Light-Scattering in Corals and Evolutionary Trends in Bleaching, Luisa A. Marcelino, Mark W. Westneat, Valentina P. Stoyneva, Jillian Henss, Jeremy Rogers, Andrew J. Radosevich, Vladimir Turzhitsky, Margaret Siple, Andrew Fang, Timothy D. Swain, Jennifer Fung, and Vadim Backman
Comparative Visual Function in Predatory Fishes from the Indian River Lagoon, D. Michelle McComb, Stephen M. Kajiura, Andrij Horodysky, and Tamara M. Frank
Hysteresis Between Coral Reef Calcification and the Seawater Aragonite Saturation State, Ashly McMahon, Isaac R. Santos, Tyler Cyronak, and Bradley D. Eyre
A Revision of the Genus Atelecrinus PH Carpenter (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), Charles G. Messing
The First In Situ Habitat Observations and Images of the Caribbean Roughshark, Oxynotus caribbaeus Cervigon, 1961 (Squaliformes: Oxynotidae), Charles G. Messing, Karl Stanley, John K. Reed, and R. Grant Gilmore
Platelet Satellitism and Dual Surface Immunoglobulin Light-Chain Expression in Circulating Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma Cells, Naomi Montague, Patricia Blackwelder, Husain Ala Al Sayegh, Roberto Ochoa, Ximena Vial, and Gerald E. Byrne
Active Avoidance Learning in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) - The Role of Sensory Modality and Inter-Stimulus Interval, Christopher Morin, Maria A. De Souza-Silva, Christian P. Muller, Patrick C. Hardigan, and Richard E. Spieler
Effect of Habitat Characteristics on the Distribution and Abundance of Damselfish Within a Red Sea Reef, Lauren E. Nadler, Deborah C. McNeill, Magdy A. Alwany, and David M. Bailey
Simultaneous Gonochoric Spawning of Dendrogyra cylindrus, Karen L. Neely, K. S. Lunz, and K. A. Macaulay
Functional Composition of Chaetodon Butterflyfishes at a Peripheral and Extreme Coral Reef Location, the Persian Gulf, Morgan S. Pratchett, Andrew S. Hoey, David A. Feary, Andrew G. Bauman, John A. Burt, and Bernhard Riegl
Does Presence of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Enhance Biomass and Biodiversity?, Imants G. Priede, Odd Aksel Bergstad, Peter I. Miller, M. Vecchione, Andrey Gebruk, Tone Falkenhaug, David S. M. Billett, Jessica Craig, Andrew C. Dale, Mark A. Shields, Gavin H. Tilstone, Tracey Sutton, Andrew J. Gooday, Mark E. Inall, Daniel O. B. Jones, Victor Martinez-Vicente, Gui Menezes, Tomasz Niedzielski, Thorsteinn Sigurdsson, Nina Rothe, Antonina Rogacheva, Claudia H. S. Alt, Timothy Brand, Richard Abell, Andrew S. Brierley, Nicola J. Cousins, Deborah Crockard, A. Rus Hoelzel, Age Hoines, Tom B. Letessier, Jane F. Read, Tracy Shimmield, Martin J. Cox, John K. Galbraith, John D. M. Gordon, Tammy Horton, Francis Neat, and Pascal Lorance
A Note on the Direct Injection of Turbulence by Breaking Waves, Nicolas Rascle, Bertrand Chapron, Fabrice Ardhuin, and Alexander Soloviev
Habitat Characterization, Distribution, and Areal Extent of Deep-sea Coral Ecosystems off Florida, Southeastern U.S.A., John K. Reed, Charles G. Messing, Brian K. Walker, Sandra Brooke, Thiago B.S. Correa, Myra Brouwer, Tina Udouj, and Stephanie Farrington
Characterization of the Heart Transcriptome of the White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Vincent P. Richards, Haruo Suzuki, Michael J. Stanhope, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Nomenclatural Transfers in the Pantropical Genus Myrsine (Myrsinaceae), Jon M. Ricketson and John J. Pipoly III
Coral Population Trajectories, Increased Disturbance and Management Intervention: A Sensitivity Analysis, Bernhard Riegl, M. L. Berumen, and Andrew Bruckner
A New List of Cuban Crinoids (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), Ruber Rodriguez-Barreras and Charles G. Messing
Fixed, Free, and Fixed: The Fickle Phylogeny of Extant Crinoidea (Echinodermata) and Their Permian-Triassic Origin, Greg W. Rouse, Lars S. Jermiin, Nerida G. Wilson, Igor Eeckhaut, Deborah Lanterbecq, Tatsuo Oji, Craig M. Young, Teena Browning, Paula Cisternas, Lauren E. Helgen, Michelle Stuckey, and Charles G. Messing
Bucket Structure in Carbonate Accumulations of the Maldive, Chagos and Laccadive Archipelagos, Wolfgang Schlager and Samuel J. Purkis
The Yellow Stingray, Urobatis jamaicensis (Chondrichthyes Urotrygonidae): A Synoptic Review, Richard E. Spieler, Daniel P. Fahy, Robin L. Sherman, James Sulikowski, and T. Patrick Quinn
Vertical Ecology of the Pelagic Ocean: Classical Patterns and New Perspectives, Tracey Sutton
Midwater Fishes Collected in the Vicinity of the Sub-Polar Front, Mid-North Atlantic Ocean, During ECOMAR Pelagic Sampling, Tracey Sutton, Tom Bech Letessier, and Birkir Bardarson
Distribution of the Biomass-Dominant Pelagic Fish, Bathylagus euryops (Argentiniformes: Microstomatidae), Along the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Christopher J. Sweetman, Tracey Sutton, M. Vecchione, and Robert J. Latour
Enrichment of Radon and Carbon Dioxide in the Open Atmosphere of an Australian Coal Seam Gas Field, Douglas R. Tait, Isaac R. Santos, Damien T. Maher, Tyler Cyronak, and Rachael J. Davis
A Southeast Atlantic Deep-Ocean Observatory: First Experiences and Results, Michael F. Vardaro, Philip M. Bagley, David M. Bailey, B. J. Bett, Daniel O. B. Jones, Rosanna Milligan, Imants G. Priede, Craig M. Risien, Gilbert T. Rowe, H. A. Ruhl, Bomba B. Sangolay, Kenneth L. Smith Jr., Anne Walls, and Jim Clarke
Microhabitat Selection by Marine Mesoconsumers in a Thermally Heterogeneous Habitat: Behavioral Thermoregulation or Avoiding Predation Risk?, Jeremy Vaudo and Michael Heithaus
Determining the Extent and Characterizing Coral Reef Habitats of the Northern Latitudes of the Florida Reef Tract (Martin County), Brian K. Walker and David S. Gilliam
Submissions from 2012
The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity, Ward Appeltans, Shane T. Ahyong, Gary Anderson, Martin V. Angel, Tom Artois, Nicolas Bailly, Roger Bamber, Anthony Barber, Ilse Bartsch, Annalisa Berta, Magdalena Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, Phil Bock, Geoff Boxshall, Christopher B. Boyko, Simone Nunes Brandão, Rod A. Bray, Niel L. Bruce, Stephen D. Cairns, Tin-Yam Chan, Lanna Cheng, Allen G. Collins, Thomas Cribb, Marco Curini-Galletti, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, Peter J.F. Davie, Michael N. Dawson, Oivier De Clerck, Wim Decock, Sammy De Grave, Nicole J. de Voogd, Daryl P. Domning, Christian C. Emig, Christer Erséus, William Eschmeyer, Kristian Fauchald, Daphne G. Fautin, Stephen W. Feist, Charles H.J.M. Fransen, Hidetaka Furuya, Oscar Garcia-Alvarez, Sarah Gerken, David Gibson, Arjan Gittenberger, Serge Gofas, Liza Gómez-Daglio, Dennis P. Gordon, Michael D. Guiry, Francisco Hernandez, Bert W. Hoeksema, Russell R. Hopcroft, Damià Jaume, Paul Kirk, Nico Koedam, Stefan Koenemann, Jürgen B. Kolb, Reinhardt M. Kristensen, Andreas Kroh, Gretchen Lambert, David B. Lazarus, Rafael Lemaitre, Matt Longshaw, Jim Lowry, Enrique Macpherson, Laurence P. Madin, Christopher Mah, Gill Mapstone, Patsy A. McLaughlin, Jan Mees, Kenneth Meland, Charles Messing, Claudia E. Mills, Tina N. Molodtsova, Rich Mooi, Birger Neuhaus, Peter K.L. Ng, Claus Nielsen, Jon Norenburg, Dennis M. Opresko, Masayuki Osawa, Gustav Paulay, William Perrin, John F. Pilger, Gary C.B. Poore, Phil Pugh, Geoffrey B. Read, James D. Reimer, Marc Rius, Rosana M. Rocha, José I. Saiz-Salinas, Victor Scarabino, Bernd Schierwater, Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa, Kareen E. Schnabel, Marilyn Schotte, Peter Schuchert, Enrico Schwabe, Hendrik Segers, Caryn Self-Sullivan, Noa Shenkar, Volker Siegel, Wolfgang Sterrer, Sabine Stöhr, Billie Swalla, Mark L. Tasker, Erik V. Thuesen, Tarmo Timm, M. Antonio Todaro, Xavier Turon, Seth Tyler, Peter Uetz, Jacob van der Land, Bart Vanhoorne, Leen P. van Ofwegen, Rob W.M. van Soest, Jan Vanaverbeke, Genefor Walker-Smith, T. Chad Walter, Alan Warren, Gary C. Williams, Simon P. Wilson, and Mark J. Costello
A Molecular and Stable Isotopic Approach to Investigate Algal and Detrital Energy Pathways in a Freshwater Marsh, Laura L. Belicka, Eric R. Sokol, J. Matthew Hoch, Rudolf Jaffe, and Joel C. Trexler
Development and Characterization of Fifteen Novel Microsatellite Loci for the Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus striatus) and Their Utility for Cross-Amplification on a Suite of Closely Related Species, Andrea M. Bernard, Kevin A. Feldheim, Vincent P. Richards, Richard S. Nemeth, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Development and Characterization of 11 Novel Microsatellite Loci for the Roundscale Spearfish Tetrapturus georgii and Their Cross-Species Amplification Among Other Istiophorid Species, Andrea M. Bernard, Kevin A. Feldheim, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Catch Rates with Variable Strength Circle Hooks in the Hawaii-Based Tuna Longline Fishery, Keith A. Bigelow, David W. Kerstetter, Matthew G. Dancho, and Jamie A. Marchetti
Global Trophic Position Comparison of Two Dominant Mesopelagic Fish Families (Myctophidae, Stomiidae) Using Amino Acid Nitrogen Isotopic Analyses, C. Anela Choy, Peter C. Davison, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Adrian Flynn, Elizabeth J. Gier, Joel C. Hoffman, Jennifer P. McClain-Counts, Todd W. Miller, Brian N. Popp, Steve W. Ross, and Tracey Sutton
Co-Cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Roseobacter denitrificans Reveal Shifts in Gene Expression Levels Compared to Solo Cultures, Crystal A. Conway, Nwadiuto Esiobu, and Jose V. Lopez
Variability of Cold-Water Coral Mounds in a High Sediment Input and Tidal Current Regime, Straits of Florida, Thiago B.S. Correa, Mark Grasmueck, Gregor P. Eberli, John K. Reed, Klaas Verwer, and Samuel J. Purkis
Glider Observations Support Plankton Population Characterization: Spray Gliders Perform Water-Column Measurements On Mesophotic Reef Ecosystems at the West Florida Shelf, Fraser Dalgleish, John K. Reed, and Tamara M. Frank
Environmental Impacts of Dredging and Other Sediment Disturbances on Corals: A Review, Paul. L. A. Erftemeijer, Bernhard Riegl, Bert W. Hoeksema, and Peter A. Todd
Ontogenetic Change in the Lipid and Fatty Acid Composition of Scleractinian Coral Larvae, Joana Figueiredo, Andrew H. Baird, M. F. Cohen, F. F. Flot, T. Kamiki, T. Meziane, M. Tsuchiya, and H. Yamasaki
Dispersal-Mediated Coexistence Under Recruitment Limitation and Displacement Competition, Joana Figueiredo and Sean R. Connolly
The Consumption of DHA During Embryogenesis as an Indicative of the Need to Supply DHA During Early Larval Development: A Review, Joana Figueiredo, Junda Lin, Justin Anto, and Luis Narciso
Caribbean Acroporid Coral Hybrids are Viable Across Life History Stages, Nicole D. Fogarty
Asymmetric Conspecific Sperm Precedence in Relation to Spawning Times in the Montastraea annularis Species Complex (Cnidaria: Scleractinia), Nicole D. Fogarty, M. Lowenberg, M. N. Ojima, Nancy Knowlton, and Don R. Levitan
Weak Prezygotic Isolating Mechanisms in Threatened Caribbean Acropora Corals, Nicole D. Fogarty, Steven V. Vollmer, and Don R. Levitan
Light and Vision in the Deep-Sea Benthos: II. Vision in Deep-Sea Crustaceans, Tamara M. Frank, Sönke Johnsen, and Thomas W. Cronin
Reef Coral Reproduction in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific: Costa Rica, Panamá, and the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). VII. Siderastreidae, Psammocora stellata and Psammocora profundacella, Peter W. Glynn, Susan B. Colley, J. L. Mate, Iliana B. Baums, Joshua S. Feingold, J. Cortes, Hector M. Guzman, J. C. Afflerbach, V. W. Brandtneris, and Jerald Ault
Incorporating Circle Hooks Into Atlantic Pelagic Fisheries: Case Studies from the Commercial Tuna/Swordfish Longline and Recreational Billfish Fisheries, John E. Graves, Andrij Horodysky, and David W. Kerstetter
Modern rhodolith-dominated carbonates at Punta Chivato, Mexico, Jochen Halfar, Markus Eisele, Bernhard Riegl, Steffen Hetzinger, and Lucio Godinez-Orta
Variation in Size at Sex-Change Among Natural Populations of the Protandrous Hermaphrodite, Crepidula fornicata (Gastropoda, Calyptraeidae), J. Matthew Hoch and Abigail E. Cahill
Experimental Tests of Sex Allocation Theory with Two Species of Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Acorn Barnacles, J. Matthew Hoch and Jeffrey S. Levinton
Light and Vision in the Deep-Sea Benthos: I. Bioluminescence at 500-1000 m Depth in the Bahamian Islands, Sönke Johnsen, Tamara M. Frank, Steven H.D. Haddock, Edith A. Widder, and Charles G. Messing
Invasionsoft: A Web-Enabled Tool for Invasive Species Colonization Predictions, Matthew W. Johnston and Samuel J. Purkis
Depth-Variable Settlement Patterns and Predation Influence on Newly Settled Reef Fishes (Haemulon spp., Haemulidae), Lance K. B. Jordan, Kenyon C. Lindeman, and Richard E. Spieler
Evaluation of variable strength hooks to reduce serious injury pilot whale interactions with the North Carolina-based pelagic longline fishery, Dave Kerstetter
Applying Stable Isotopes to Examine Food-Web Structure: an Overview of Analytical Tools, Craig A. Layman, Marcio S. Araujo, Ross Boucek, Caroline M. Hammerschlag-Peyer, Elizabeth Harrison, Zachary R. Jud, Philip Matich, Adam E. Rosenblatt, Jeremy Vaudo, Lauren A. Yeager, David M. Post, and Stuart Bearhop
Compensatory Mitigation in Marine Ecosystems: Which Indicators for Assessing the "No Net Loss" Goal of Ecosystem Services and Ecological Functions?, Harold Levrel, Sylvain Pioch, and Richard E. Spieler
Gametogenesis and Spawning of Solenastrea bournoni and Stephanocoenia intersepta in Southeast Florida, USA, Jenna R. Lueg, Alison L. Moulding, Vladimir N. Kosmynin, and David S. Gilliam
Importance of Mangrove Shorelines for Rainbow Parrotfish Scarus guacamaia: Habitat Suitability Modeling in a Subtropical Bay, Ethan G. P. Machemer, John F. Walter, Joseph E. Serafy, and David W. Kerstetter
Coral Recruitment to Two Vessel Grounding Sites off Southeast Florida, USA, Alison L. Moulding, Vladimir N. Kosmynin, and David S. Gilliam
A Streamlined DNA Tool for Global Identification of Heavily Exploited Coastal Shark Species (Genus Rhizoprionodon), D. Pinhal, Mahmood S. Shivji, Pedro G. Nachtigall, Demian D. Chapman, and Cesar Martins
Open and Closed Seascapes: Where Does Habitat Patchiness Create Populations with High Fractions of Self-Recruitment?, Malin L. Pinsky, Stephen R. Palumbi, Serge Andrefouet, and Samuel J. Purkis
Patterns of Sedimentation In the Contemporary Red Sea As An Analog for Ancient Carbonates In Rift Settings, Samuel J. Purkis, Paul Mitch Harris, and James Ellis
Visualizing Lateral Anisotropy in Modern Carbonates, Samuel J. Purkis and Brigitte Vlaswinkel
Vertical-To-Lateral Transitions Among Cretaceous Carbonate Facies—A Means To 3-D Framework Construction Via Markov Analysis, Samuel J. Purkis, Brigitte Vlaswinkel, and Nuno Gracias
Red Sea Coral Reef Trajectories Over 2 Decades Suggest Increasing Community Homogenization and Decline in Coral Size, Bernhard Riegl, Andrew W. Bruckner, Gwilym Rowlands, Samuel J. Purkis, and Philip Renaud
Human Impact on Atolls Leads to Coral Loss and Community Homogenisation: A Modeling Study, Bernhard Riegl, Charles R. C. Sheppard, and Samuel J. Purkis
Satellite Imaging Coral Reef Resilience at Regional Scale. A Case-Study From Saudi Arabia, Gwilym Rowlands, Samuel J. Purkis, Bernhard Riegl, Liisa Metsamaa, Andrew Bruckner, and Philip Renaud
Raised Reef on Larak Suggests Acropora Dominance on the Persian Gulf Coral Reefs Since the Pleistocene, Kaveh Samimi-Namin and Bernhard Riegl
In Situ Coral Nurseries Serve as Genetic Repositories for Coral Reef Restoration After an Extreme Cold-Water Event, S. Schopmeyer, Diego Lirman, Erich Bartels, James Byrne, David S. Gilliam, John Hunt, Meaghan E. Johnson, Elizabeth Anne Larson, Kerry Maxwell, Ken Nedimyer, and Cory Walter
Circle Hooks in Commercial, Recreational, and Artisanal Fisheries: Research Status and Needs for Improved Conservation and Management, Joseph E. Serafy, Steven J. Cooke, Guillermo A. Diaz, John E. Graves, Martin Hall, Mahmood S. Shivji, and Yonat Swimmer
Reefs and Islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: Why It Is the World's Largest No-Take Marine Protected Area, Charles R. C. Sheppard, Mebs Ateweberhan, B. W. Bowen, P. Carr, Chaolun Allen Chen, C. Clubbe, M. T. Craig, R. Ebinghaus, J. Eble, N. Fitzsimmons, M. R. Gaither, C-H. Gan, M. Gollock, Nestor Guzman, N. A. J. Graham, A. Harris, Rachel Jones, Shashank Keshavmurthy, H. Koldewey, Carl Lundin, J. A. Mortimer, David Obura, M. Pfeiffer, Andrew R. G. Price, Samuel J. Purkis, P. Raines, J. W. Readman, Bernhard Riegl, A. Rogers, Michael H. Schleyer, M. R. Seaward, Anne L. S. Sheppard - United Kingdom, Jerker Tamelander, John R. Turner, Shakil Visram, C. Vogler, S. Vogt, H. Wolschke, J. M-C. Yang, Sung-Yin Yang, and C. Yesson
Air-Sea Interface in Hurricane Conditions, Alexander Soloviev, A. Fujimura, and Silvia Matt
3D Sonar Measurements in Wakes of Ships of Opportunity, Alexander Soloviev, Christopher Maingot, Mike Agor, Lou Nash, and Keith Dixon
Context-Dependent Effects of Symbiosis: Zoanthidea Colonization Generally Improves Demospongiae Condition in Native Habitats, Timothy D. Swain
Evidence for the Southward Migration of Mud Banks in Florida Bay, Kristian Taylor and Samuel J. Purkis
First Descriptions of Endoparasite Fauna of Elasmobranch and Mesopelagic Teleost Bycatch Fishes from the Western North Atlantic Pelagic Longline Fishery, Mae Taylor, Harold E. Laubach, and David W. Kerstetter
A New Genus and Species of Didymocheliid Amphipod from Hexactinellid Sponges (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Didymocheliidae) from the Western Atlantic Ocean, James Darwin Thomas and Les Watling
Site Specialists, Diet Generalists? Isotopic Variation, Site Fidelity, and Foraging by Loggerhead Turtles in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Jordan A. Thomson, Michael Heithaus, Derek A. Burkholder, Jeremy Vaudo, Aaron Wirsing, and Lawrence M. Dill
Diel and Seasonal Variation in the Use of a Nearshore Sandflat by a Ray Community in a Near Pristine System, Jeremy Vaudo and Michael Heithaus
Spatial Analyses of Benthic Habitats to Define Coral Reef Ecosystem Regions and Potential Biogeographic Boundaries along a Latitudinal Gradient, Brian K. Walker
Small-Scale Mapping of Indeterminate Arborescent Acroporid Coral (Acropora cervicornis) Patches, Brian K. Walker, E. A. Larson, Alison L. Moulding, and David S. Gilliam
Pyrosequencing of Bacterial Symbionts within Axinella corrugata Sponges: Diversity and Seasonal Variability, James R. White, Jignasa Patel, Andrea Ottesen, Gabriela Arce, Patricia Blackwelder, and Jose V. Lopez
Submissions from 2011
Fishing Gear Modifications to Reduce Elasmobranch Mortality in Pelagic and Bottom Longline Fisheries Off Northeast Brazil, Andre S. Afonso, Fabio H.V. Hazin, F. Carvalho, J. C. Pacheco, Humberto Hazin, David W. Kerstetter, Debra Murie, and George H. Burgess
Population Size and Site Fidelity of North Atlantic Minke Whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata) Off the Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, Gemma B. Bartha, Shannon Gowans, Peter Simard, MIchael Tetley, and Edward O. Keith
Development of Embryonic Gill Vasculature in the Yellow Stingray, Urobatis jamaicensis, Bethany L. Basten, Robin L. Sherman, Alois Lametschwandtner, and Richard E. Spieler