Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

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.

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Submissions from 2005

Reef Fish Assemblage Structure Affected by Small-Scale Spacing and Size Variations of Artificial Patch Reefs, Lance K. B. Jordan, David S. Gilliam, and Richard E. Spieler

Reduced Horizontal Sea Surface Temperature Gradients Under Conditions of Clear Skies and Weak Winds, Kristina B. Katsaros, Alexander Soloviev, Robert H. Weisberg, and Mark E. Luther

Unexpectedly High Cover of Acropora cervicornis on Offshore Reefs in Roatan (Honduras), Jennifer R. Keck, R. S. Houston, Samuel J. Purkis, and Bernhard Riegl

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Coral Recruitment Patterns in the Florida Keys, Alison L. Moulding

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Assessing the Accuracy of Acoustic Seabed Classification for Mapping Coral Reef Environments in South Florida (Broward County, USA), Ryan P. Moyer, Bernhard Riegl, Kenneth Banks, and Richard E. Dodge

Correlation Between Photosensitivity and Downwelling Irradiance in Mesopelagic Crustaceans, Trevor J. Myslinski, Tamara M. Frank, and Edith A. Widder

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Habitat Use and Demographic Population Structure of Elasmobranchs at a Caribbean Atoll (Glover's Reef, Belize), Ellen K. Pikitch, Demian D. Chapman, Elizabeth A. Babcock, and Mahmood S. Shivji

Fluorescence Census Techniques for Coral Recruits, Gregory A. Piniak, Nicole D. Fogarty, Christine M. Addison, and W. Judson Kenworthy

Reassessing U.S. Coral Reefs, William F. Precht, Steven Miller, Richard B. Aronson, John F. Bruno, and Les S. Kaufman

A "Reef-Up" Approach to Classifying Coral Habitats from IKONOS Imagery, Samuel J. Purkis

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Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Arabian Gulf Coral Assemblages Quantified from Remote-Sensing and in situ Monitoring Data, Samuel J. Purkis and Bernhard Riegl

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Remote Sensing of Geomorphology and Facies Patterns on a Modern Carbonate Ramp (Arabian Gulf, Dubai, U.A.E.), Samuel J. Purkis, Bernhard Riegl, and Serge Andrefouet

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Effects of Nutrient Enrichment and Elevated CO2 Partial Pressure on Growth Rate of Atlantic Scleractinian Coral Acropora cervicornis, Dorothy-Ellen A. Renegar and Bernhard Riegl

Distribution and Seasonal Biomass of Drift Macroalgae in the Indian River Lagoon (Florida, USA) Estimated with Acoustic Seafloor Classification (QTCView, Echoplus), Bernhard Riegl, Ryan P. Moyer, Lori J. Morris, Robert W. Virnstein, and Samuel J. Purkis

Detection of Shallow Subtidal Corals from IKONOS Satellite and QTC View (50,200 kHz) Single-Beam Sonar Data (Arabian Gulf; Dubai, UAE), Bernhard Riegl and Samuel J. Purkis

Trophic Ecology of the Deep-Sea Fish Malacosteus niger (Pisces: Stomiidae): An Enigmatic Feeding Ecology to Facilitate a Unique Visual System?, Tracey Sutton

The Isotopic Composition of Respired Carbon Dioxide in Scleractinian Corals: Implications for Cycling of Organic Carbon in Corals, Peter Koenraad Swart, Alina Szmant, James W. Porter, Richard E. Dodge, Jennifer I. Tougas, and John R. Southam

Environmental Correlates of Cetacean Mass Stranding Sites in Florida, Rebekah J. Walker, Edward O. Keith, Alexander E. Yankovsky, and Daniel K. Odell

Farfield Tracing of a Point Source Discharge Plume in the Coastal Ocean Using Sulfur Hexafluoride, Rik Wanninkhof, K. M. Sullivan, W. Paul Dammann, John Proni, Frederick Bloetscher, Alexander Soloviev, and Thomas P. Carsey

Molecular Evidence for Multiple Lineages in the Gorgonian Family Plexauridae (Anthozoa: Octocorallia), H. H. Wirshing, Charles G. Messing, C. J. Douady, J. K. Reed, M. J. Stanhope, and Mahmood S. Shivji

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A Comparison of Diets and Water Agitation Methods for Larval Culture of the Edible Sea Urchin, Tripneustes ventricosus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea), Ray Wolcott and Charles G. Messing

Submissions from 2004

Remote Sensing: A Key Tool for Interdisciplinary Assessment of Coral Reef Processes, Serge Andrefouet and Bernhard Riegl

Characterization of the Marine Fish Assemblage Associated with the Nearshore Hardbottom of Broward County, Florida, USA, Robert M. Baron, Lance K. B. Jordan, and Richard E. Spieler

Predominance of Genetic Monogamy by Females in a Hammerhead Shark, Sphyrna tiburo: Implications for Shark Conservation, Demian D. Chapman, Paulo A. Prodohl, James Gelsleichter, Charles A. Manire, and Mahmood S. Shivji

Changes in Motoric, Exploratory, and Emotional Behaviours and Neuronal Acetylcholine Content and 5-HT Turnover in Histidine Decarboxylase-KO Mice, Ekrem Dere, Maria A. De Souza-Silva, Richard E. Spieler, J. S. Lin, H. Ohtsu, Helmut L. Haas, and Joseph P. Huston

Fishes of the Eastern Ross Sea, Antarctica, Joseph Donnelly, Joseph J. Torres, Tracey Sutton, and Christina Simoniello

The Application of Peptide Nucleic Acid Probes for Rapid Detection and Enumeration of Eubacteria, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Recreational Beaches of S. Florida, Nwadiuto Esiobu, Renuka Mohammed, Andrea Echeverry, Melissa Green, Tonya Davidian Bonilla, Aaron Hartz, Donald S. McCorquodale Jr., and Andrew Rogerson

Taxonomists and the CBD, R. Geeta, Andre Levy, J. Matthew Hoch, Melissa Mark, Quentin D. Wheeler, Peter H. Raven, and Edward O. Wilson

Vanishing Horizontal Sea Surface Temperature Gradients at Low Wind Speeds, Kristina B. Katsaros and Alexander Soloviev

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Evidence of Shark Predation and Scavenging on Fishes Equipped with Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags, David W. Kerstetter, J. Polovina, and John E. Graves

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The Perfect Microbial Symbiosis Hotel: Marine Sponges, Jose V. Lopez

Integrating In Situ Reef-Top Reflectance Spectra with Landsat TM Imagery to Aid Shallow-Tropical Benthic Habitat Mapping, Samuel J. Purkis and R. Pasterkamp

Nutrient and Growth Dynamics of Halimeda tuna on Conch Reef, Florida Keys: Possible Influence of Internal Tides on Nutrient Status and Physiology, Jennifer E. Smith, Celia M. Smith, Peter S. Vroom, Kevin L. Beach, and Steven Miller

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New Species of Eustomias (Teleostei: Stomiidae) from the Western North Atlantic, with a Review of the Subgenus Neostomias, Tracey Sutton and Karsten E. Hartel

The Skeleton Eroding Band Disease on Coral Reefs of Aqaba, Red Sea, Robert Winkler, Arnfried Antonius, and Dorothy-Ellen A. Renegar

Submissions from 2003

Multi-Site Evaluation of IKONOS Data for Classification of Tropical Coral Reef Environments, Serge Andrefouet, Philip Kramer, Damaris Torres-Pulliza, Karen E. Joyce, Eric J. Hochberg, Rodrigo Garza-Perez, Peter J. Mumby, Bernhard Riegl, Hiroya Yamano, William H. White, Mayalen Zubia, John C. Brock, Stuart R. Phinn, Abdulla Naseer, Bruce G. Hatcher, and Frank E. Muller-Karger

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A Monte Carlo Demographic Analysis of the Silky Shark (Carcharhinus falciformis): Implications of Gear Selectivity, Lawrence R. Beerkircher, Mahmood S. Shivji, and Enric Cortes

Circadian Variation of Brain Histamine in Goldfish, Tiffany A. Burns, Joseph P. Huston, and Richard E. Spieler

Feeding Ecology, Age, Growth and Sexual Cycle of the Portuguese Sole, Synaptura lusitanica, Henrique Cabral, Ana Isabel Catarino, Joana Figueiredo, Joana Garcia, and Miguel Henriques

Genetic and Morphological Variation of Synaptura lusitanica Capello, 1868, along the Portuguese Coast, Henrique Cabral, Joana F. Marques, Ana Luisa Rego, Ana Isabel Catarino, Joana Figueiredo, and Joana Garcia

Diel Movement Patterns of the Hawaiian Stingray, Dasyatis Lata: Implications for Ecological Interactions between Sympatric Elasmobranch Species, Daniel P. Cartamil, Jeremy Vaudo, Christopher G. Lowe, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Kim N. Holland

A Streamlined, Bi-Organelle, Multiplex PCR Approach to Species Identification: Application to Global Conservation and Trade Monitoring of the Great White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias, Demian D. Chapman, Debra Abercrombie, Christophe J. Douady, Ellen K. Pikitch, Michael Stanhope, and Mahmood S. Shivji

Mating Behavior of Southern Stingrays, Dasyatis americana (Dasyatidae), Demian D. Chapman, Mark John Corcoran, Guy Harvey, Sonita Malan, and Mahmood S. Shivji

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Histidine-Decarboxylase Knockout Mice Show Deficient Nonreinforced Episodic Object Memory, Improved Negatively Reinforced Water-Maze Performance, and Increased Neo- and Ventro-Striatal Dopamine Turnover, Ekrem Dere, Maria A. De Souza-Silva, Bianca Topic, Richard E. Spieler, Helmut L. Haas, and Joseph P. Huston

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A Rapid Assessment of Coral Reefs Near Hopetown, Abaco Islands, Bahamas (Stony Corals and Algae), Joshua Feingold, Susan L. Thornton, Kenneth W. Banks, Nancy J. Gasman, David S. Gilliam, Pamela Fletcher, and Christian L. Avila

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Case 3270: Isometrinae Clark, 1917 (Ecinodermata, Crinoidea): Proposed Emendation of Spelling to Isometrainae to Remove Homonymy with Isometrinae Kraepelin, 1891 (Arachnida, Scorpiones), Victor Fet and Charles G. Messing

Benthic Habitat Mapping in the Tortugas Region, Florida, E. Franklin, Jerald Ault, Steven G. Smith, Jiangang Luo, G. Meester, Guillermo A. Diaz, Mark Chiappone, Dione W. Swanson, Steven Miller, and James A. Bohnsack

Effects of Light Adaptation on the Temporal Resolution of Deep-sea Crustaceans, Tamara M. Frank

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Growth and Survivorship of Stony Coral Meandrina meandrites and Montastrea cavernosa Transplants to an Artificial Reef Environment: A Work in Progress, E. A. Glynn, T. Patrick Quinn, Daniel P. Fahy, Richard E. Dodge, David S. Gilliam, and Richard E. Spieler

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CoralXDS - Coral X-radiograph Densitometry System, Kevin P. Helmle, Kevin E. Kohler, and Richard E. Dodge

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Assessment of the Coral Reefs of the Turks and Caicos Islands (Part 2: Fish Communities), Kaho Hoshino, Marilyn Brandt, Carrie Manfrino, Bernhard Riegl, and Sascha C. C. Steiner

Foraging by the Mud Snail, Ilyanassa obsoleta (Say), Modulates Spatial Variation in Benthic Community Structure, Brendan P. Kelaher, Jeffrey S. Levinton, and J. Matthew Hoch

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Reviewed Work(s): Electronic Tagging and Tracking in Marine Fisheries., David W. Kerstetter

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Use of Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags to Demonstrate Survival of Blue Marlin (Makaira nigricans) Released from Pelagic Longline Gear, David W. Kerstetter, Brian E. Luckhurst, Eric Prince, and John E. Graves

An Annotated Checklist and Key to the Crinoidea of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, Lisa Kirkendale and Charles G. Messing

Episodic Nutrient Transport to Florida Coral Reefs, James J. Leichter, Hannah L. Stewart, and Steven Miller

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Status of Coral Reefs of Little Cayman, Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac, British West Indies, in 1999 and 2000 (Part 1: Stony Corals and Algae), Carrie Manfrino, Bernhard Riegl, Jerome L. Hall, and Robert Graifman

Three New Species of Comasteridae Echinodermata, Crinoidea from the Tropical Western Pacific, Charles G. Messing

Unique Morphology in the Living Bathyal Feather Star, Atelecrinus (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), Charles G. Messing

Pavements of Siderastrea radians on Cape Verde Reefs, Chris S. Moses, Kevin P. Helmle, Peter K. Swart, Richard E. Dodge, and S. E. Merino

Spatial Patterns and Ecology of Benthic Communities on a High-Latitude South Florida (Broward County, USA) Reef System, Ryan P. Moyer, Bernhard Riegl, Kenneth Banks, and Richard E. Dodge

Vertical Versus Horizontal Growth Strategies of Coral Frameworks (Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia), W. E. Piller and Bernhard Riegl

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Hypothesis-based Restoration Study For Mitigation of a Damaged SE Florida Coral Reef: A Work in Progress, T. Patrick Quinn, E. A. Glynn, Richard E. Dodge, Kenneth Banks, L. E. Fisher, and Richard E. Spieler

Climate Change and Coral Reefs: Different Effects in Two High-Latitude Areas (Arabian Gulf, South Africa), Bernhard Riegl

Halofolliculina Skeleton Eroding Band (SEB): A Coral Disease with Fossilization Potential?, Bernhard Riegl and Arnfried Antonius

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Assessment of the Coral Reefs of the Turks and Caicos Islands (Part 1: Stony Corals and Algae), Bernhard Riegl, Carrie Manfrino, Casey Hermoyian, Marilyn Brandt, and Kaho Hoshino

Possible Refugia for Reefs in Times of Environmental Stress, Bernhard Riegl and Werner Piller

Observation of Wave-Enhanced Turbulence in the Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean During TOGA COARE, Alexander Soloviev and Roger Lukas

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Energetic Baroclinic Super-Tidal Oscillations on the Southeast Florida shelf, Alexander Soloviev, Mark E. Luther, and Robert H. Weisberg

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Coastal Observatory Investigates Energetic Current Oscillations on Southeast Florida Shelf, Alexander Soloviev, Rebekah J. Walker, Robert H. Weisberg, and Mark E. Luther

Structural rRNA Characters Support Monophyly of Raptorial Limbs and Paraphyly of Limb Specialization in Water Fleas, Timothy D. Swain and Derek J. Taylor

High-Latitude Acropora cervicornis Thickets Off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, James Darwin Thomas, and S. Michael Hoke

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SFOMC: A successful navy and academic partnership providing sustained ocean observation capabilities in the Florida straits, William Venezia, William Baxley, Peter Tatro, Manhar Dhanak, Rick Driscoll, Pierre Philippe Beaujean, Steven Shock, Stewart Glegg, Edgar An, Mark Luther, Bob Weisberg, Harry DeFerrari, Neil Williams, Hien Nguyen, Nick Shay, John Van Leer, Richard Dodge, Dave Gilliam, Alexander Soloviev, Shirley Pomponi, Michael Crane, and Kevin Carter

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Phytoplankton Response to Intrusions of Slope Water on the West Florida Shelf: Models and Observations, John J. Walsh, Robert H. Weisberg, Dwight A. Dieterle, Ruoying He, Brian P. Darrow, Jason K. Jolliff, Kristen M. Lester, Gabriel A. Vargo, Gary J. Kirkpatrick, Kent A. Fanning, Tracey Sutton, Ann E. Jochens, Douglas C. Biggs, Bisman Nababan, Chuanmin Hu, and Frank E. Muller-Karger

Submissions from 2002

Special Issue of Coral Reefs, on Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs, Serge Andrefouet and Bernhard Riegl

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Characteristics of Shark Bycatch Observed on Pelagic Longlines Off the Southeastern United States, 1992-2000, Lawrence R. Beerkircher, Enric Cortes, and Mahmood S. Shivji

Skeletal Morphology and Material Properties of a Fragmenting Gorgonian Coral, M. L. Boller, Timothy D. Swain, and H. R. Lasker

Density, Spatial Distribution and Size Structure of Sea Urchins in Florida Keys Coral Reef and Hard-Bottom Habitats, Mark Chiappone, Dione W. Swanson, and Steven Miller

Large-Scale Surveys on the Florida Reef Tract Indicate Poor Recovery of the Long-Spined Sea Urchin Diadema antillarum, Mark Chiappone, Dione W. Swanson, Steven Miller, and S. G. Smith

Occurrence and Biological Impacts of Fishing Gear and Other Marine Debris in the Florida Keys, Mark Chiappone, A. White, Dione W. Swanson, and Steven Miller

Effects of a Decrease in Downwelling Irradiance on the Daytime Vertical Distribution Patterns of Zooplankton and Micronekton, Tamara M. Frank and Edith A. Widder

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Functional morphology of coral shape and passive hydrodynamic self-righting in recent Manicina areolata, Bernhard Hubmann, Werner E. Piller, and Bernhard Riegl

High Resolution Ground Verification, Cluster Analysis and Optical Model of Reef Substrate Coverage on Landsat TM Imagery (Red Sea, Egypt), Samuel J. Purkis, J. A. M. Kenter, E. K. Oikonomou, and I. S. Robinson

Holocene Coral Reef Rubble and Its Binding Agents, M. Rasser and Bernhard Riegl

Effects of the 1996 and 1998 Positive Sea-Surface Temperature Anomalies on Corals, Coral Diseases and Fish in the Arabian Gulf (Dubai, UAE), Bernhard Riegl

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Artificial Keys to the Genera of Living Stalked Crinoids (Echinodermata), Michel Roux, Charles G. Messing, and Nadia Améziane

Air-Sea Gas Exchange: Cool Skin and Gas Transfer Velocity in the North Atlantic Ocean During GasEx-98, P. Schlussel and Alexander Soloviev

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Very High-Frequency Radar Mapping of Surface Currents, Lynn K. Shay, Thomas M. Cook, Hartmut Peters, Arthur Mariano, Robert H. Weisberg, P. Edgar An, Alexander Soloviev, and Mark E. Luther

Sharp Frontal Interfaces in the Near-Surface Layer of the Tropical Ocean, Alexander Soloviev, Roger Lukas, and Hiroshi Matsuura

Book Review of Committee on the Evaluation, Design, and Monitoring of Marine Reserves and Protected Areas in the United States; Ocean Studies Board; Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources; National Research Council (2001) Marine Protected Areas: Tools for Sustaining Ocean Ecosystems, James Darwin Thomas

Sexual Reproduction of Acropora cervicornis in Nearshore Waters Off Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel and James Darwin Thomas

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In Situ Observations on Three Species of Large-Finned Deep-Sea Squids, M. Vecchione, C. F. E. Roper, Edith A. Widder, and Tamara M. Frank

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Fish Assemblages Associated with Artificial Reefs of Concrete Aggregates or Quarry Stone Offshore Miami Beach, Florida, USA, Brian K. Walker, Bruce Henderson, and Richard E. Spieler

Submissions from 2001

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A Century of Environmental Variability in Oyster Bay Using Ostracode Ecological and Isotopic Data as Paleoenvironmental Tools, Carlos A. Alvarez-Zarikian, Peter Koenraad Swart, Terri Hood, Patricia Blackwelder, Terry A. Nelsen, and Charles Featherstone

Comparatively High Densities of the Long-Spined Sea Urchin in the Dry Tortugas, Florida, Mark Chiappone, Steven Miller, Dione W. Swanson, Jerald Ault, and S. G. Smith

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Responses of Three Coral Communities to the 1997–98 El Niño–Southern Oscillation: Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, Joshua S. Feingold

Temporal Records of δ13C and δ15N in North Pacific Pinnipeds: Inferences Regarding Environmental Change and Diet, Amy Hirons, Donald M. Schell, and Bruce P. Finney

Growth Rates of Vibrissae of Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) and Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus), Amy Hirons, Donald M. Schell, and David J. St. Aubin

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Review of the Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Mexico, Edward O. Keith

Degradation of Emergent and Submerged Macrophytes in an Oxbow Lake of an Embanked Backwater System: Implications for the Terrestrialization Process, Alexander K. T. Kirschner, Bernhard Riegl, and Branko Velimirov