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 2017
Effects of EMF Emissions from Undersea Electric Cables on Coral Reef Fish, Audie Kirk Kilfoyle, Robert F. Jermain, Manhar R. Dhanak, Joseph P. Huston, and Richard E. Spieler
Short-Term Toxicity of 1-Methylnaphthalene to Americamysis bahia and 5 Deep-Sea Crustaceans, Anthony H. Knap, Nicholas R. Turner, Gopal Bera, Dorothy-Ellen A. Renegar, Tamara Frank, Jose Sericano, and Bernhard Riegl
Temporal Dynamics of Black Band Disease Affecting Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) following Two Consecutive Hyperthermal Events on the Florida Reef Tract, Cynthia L. Lewis, Karen L. Neely, Laurie L. Richardson, and Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty
Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification of Mercury and Methylmercury in Four Sympatric Coastal Sharks in a Protected Subtropical Lagoon, Adam G. Matulik, David Kerstetter, Neil Hammerschlag, Timohty Divoll, Chad R. Hammerschmidt, and David C. Evers
Influence of Oceanographic Conditions on Abundance and Distribution of Post-Larval and Juvenile Carangid Fishes in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, John A. Mohan, Tracey Sutton, April Cook, Kevin M. Boswell, and RJ David Wells
The Sponge Microbiome Project, Lucas Moitinho-Silva, Shaun Nielsen, Amnon Amir, Antonio Gonzalez, Gail Ackermann, Carlo Cerrano, Carmen Astudillo-Garcia, Cole Easson, Detmer Sipkema, Fang Liu, Georg Steinert, Giorgos Kotoulas, Grace McCormack, Guofang Feng, James J. Bell, Jan Vicente, Johannes R. Bjork, Jose M. Montoya, Julie B. Olson, Julie Reveillaud, Laura Steindler, Mari-Carmen Pineda, Maria V. Marra, Micha Ilan, Michael W. Taylor, Paraskevi Polymenakou, Patrick M. Erwin, Peter J. Schupp, Rachel L. Simister, Rob Knight, Robert W. Thacker, Rodrigo Costa, Russell T. Hill, Susanna Lopez-Legentil, Thanos Dailianis, Timothy Ravasi, Ute Hentschel, Zhiyong Li, Nicole S. Webster, and Torsten Thomas
Ports and Pests: Assessing the Threat of Aquatic Invasive Species Introduced by Maritime Shipping Activity in Cuba, Charleen O'Brien, Matthew W. Johnston, and David Kerstetter
Primary Utricle Structure of Six Halimeda Species and Potential Relevance for Ocean Acidification Tolerance, Katherine E. Peach, Marguerite S. Koch, Patricia Blackwelder, Debbie Guerrero-Given, and Naomi Kamasawa
Calcification and Photophysiology Responses to Elevated pCO2 in Six Halimeda Species from Contrasting Irradiance Environments on Little Cayman Island Reefs, Katherine E. Peach, Marguerite S. Koch, Patricia Blackwelder, and Carrie Manfrino
Carbon Dots: Promising Biomaterials for Bone-Specific Imaging and Drug Delivery, Zhili Peng, Esmail H. Miyanji, Yiqun Zhou, Joel Pardo, Sajini D. Hettiarachchi, Shanghao Li, Patricia Blackwelder, Isaac Skromne, and Roger M. Leblanc
Terrigenous Sediment-Dominated Reef Platform Infilling: An Unexpected Precursor to Reef Island Formation and a Test of the Reef Platform Size–Island Age Model in the Pacific, Chris T. Perry, Paul S. Kench, Scott G. Smithers, Bernhard Riegl, P. Gulliver, and J. J. Daniells
An Update of the Visual_HEA Software to Improve the Implementation of the Habitat Equivalency Analysis Method, Sylvain Pioch, Matthew W. Johnston, Anne-Charlotte Vaissiere, Fanny Berger, Celine Jacob, and Richard E. Dodge
Complex Interplay between Depositional and Petrophysical Environments in Holocene Tidal Carbonates (Al Ruwais, Qatar), Samuel J. Purkis, John Rivers, Christian J. Strohmenger, Christopher Warren, Ruqaiya Yousif, Luis Ramirez, and Bernhard Riegl
Distribution and Habitat Use of the Golden Crab Chaceon fenneri off Eastern Florida Based on In Situ Submersible and ROV Observations and Potential for Impacts to Deep Water Coral/Sponge Habitat, John Reed, Stephanie Farrington, Charles Messing, and Andre David
Pruning the Pearlsides: Reconciling Morphology and Molecules in Mesopelagic Fishes (Maurolicus: Sternoptychidae), D. J. Reese, I. Byrkjedal, and Tracey Sutton
Acute and Sub-Acute Toxicity of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon 1-Methylnaphthalene to the Shallow-Water Coral Porites divaricata: Application of a Novel Exposure Protocol, Dorothy-Ellen A. Renegar, Nick Turner, Bernhard Riegl, Richard E. Dodge, Anthony H. Knap, and Paul Schuler
Global Biogeochemical Provinces of the Mesopelagic Zone, Gabriel Reygondeau, Lionel Guidi, Gregory Beaugrand, Stephanie A. Henson, Philippe Koubbi, Brian R. MacKenzie, Tracey Sutton, Martine Fioroni, and Olivier Maury
Demographic mechanisms of reef coral species winnowing from communities under increased environmental stress, Bernhard Riegl, Georgenes Cavalcante, Andrew G. Bauman, David A. Feary, Sascha Steiner, and Sam Purkis
Stalked Crinoids Collected off California with Descriptions of Three New Genera and Two New Species of Hyocrinidae (Echinodermata), Michel Roux and Charles Messing
Regional Restoration Benchmarks for Acropora cervicornis, S. Schopmeyer, Diego Lirman, Erich Bartels, David S. Gilliam, Elizabeth Goergen, Sean P. Griffin, Meaghan E. Johnson, Caitlin Lustic, Kerry Maxwell, and Cory Walter
Non‐Linear Thresholds Characterize the Relationship Between Reef Fishes and Mangrove Habitat, Geoffrey S. Shideler, Rafael J. Araujo, Brian K. Walker, Jeremiah Blondeau, and Joseph E. Serafy
Southward Flow on the Western Flank of the Florida Current, Alexander Soloviev, Amy Hirons, Christopher Maingot, Cayla Whitney Dean, Richard E. Dodge, Alexander E. Yankovsky, Jon Wood, Robert H. Weisberg, Mark E. Luther, and Julian P. McCreary
Is the State of the Air-Sea Interface a Factor in Rapid Intensification and Rapid Decline of Tropical Cyclones?, Alexander Soloviev, Roger Lukas, Mark A. Donelan, Brian K. Haus, and Isaac Ginis
DNA Analysis of Traded Shark Fins and Mobulid Gill Plates Reveals a High Proportion of Species of Conservation Concern, Dirk Steinke, Andrea Bernard, Rebekah L. Horn, Paul Hilton, Robert H. Hanner, and Mahmood S. Shivji
The Genera and Species of Comatulidae (Comatulida: Crinoidea): Taxonomic Revisions and a Molecular and Morphological Guide, Mindi M. Summers, Charles Messing, and Greg W. Rouse
A Global Biogeographic Classification of the Mesopelagic Zone, Tracey Sutton, Malcolm R. Clark, Daniel C. Dunn, Patrick N. Halpin, Alex D. Rogers, John Guinotte, Steven J. Bograd, Martin V. Angel, Jose Angel A. Perez, Karen Wishner, Richard L. Haedrich, Dhugal Lindsay, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Alexander Vereshchaka, Uwe Piatkowski, Telmo Morato, Katarzyna Blachowiak-Samolyk, Bruce H. Robison, Kristina Gjerde, Annelies Pierrot-Bults, Patricio Bernal, Gabriel Reygondeau, and Mikko Heino
Language Learning Under Classroom Conditions During the Transition to Hybrid Instruction: A Case-Study of Student Performance During the Implementation of Instructional Technology, Lisbeth O. Swain and Timothy D. Swain
Revising Mariametridae: the genera Dichrometra, Lamprometra, and Liparometra (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), Kristian H. Taylor, Greg W. Rouse, and Charles Messing
Systematics of Himerometra (Echinodermata: Crinoidea: Himerometridae) based on morphology and molecular data, Kristian Taylor, Greg W. Rouse, and Charles Messing
Petroleum Hydrocarbon Toxicity to Corals: a Review, Nick Turner and Dorothy-Ellen A. Renegar
Horizontal and Vertical Movements of White Marlin, Kajikia albida, Tagged Off the Yucatan Peninsula, Jeremy Vaudo, Michael Byrne, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Guy Harvey, and A. Mendillo Jr.
Long-Term Satellite Tracking Reveals Region-Specific Movements of a Large Pelagic Predator, the Shortfin Mako Shark, in the Western North Atlantic Ocean, Jeremy Vaudo, Michael Byrne, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Guy Harvey, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Combined Gut Content and Stable Isotope Trophic Analysis of the Pelagic Stingray Pteroplaytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832) Diet from the Western North Atlantic Ocean, Tiffany A. Weidner, Amy Hirons, A. Leavitt, and David Kerstetter
Comparison of coral diversity between big and small atolls: a case study of Yongle atoll and Lingyang reef, Xisha Islands, central of South China Sea, Meixia Zhao, Kefu Yu, Qi Shi, Hongqiang Yan, Bernhard Riegl, Qiaomin Zhang, Hongqiang Yan, Tianran Chen, Guohui Liu, and Ziyun Lin
Gel-like Carbon Dots: Characterization and their Potential Applications, Yiqun Zhou, Alexandra Desserre, Shiv Sharma, Shanghao Li, M. Hensley Marksberry, Charles C. Chusuei, Patricia Blackwelder, and Roger M. Leblanc
Submissions from 2016
Promnestic Effects of Intranasally Applied Pregnenolone in Rats, Laila Abdel-Hafiz, Owen Y. Chao, Joseph P. Huston, Susanne Nikolaus, Richard E. Spieler, Maria A. de Souza Silva, and Claudia Mattern
Using Probabilities of Enterococci Exceedance and Logistic Regression to Evaluate Long Term Weekly Beach Monitoring Data, Diana Ixchel Aranda, Jose V. Lopez, Helena M. Solo-Gabriele, and Jay Fleisher
Global Population Genetic Dynamics of a Highly Migratory, Apex Predator Shark, Andrea Bernard, Kevin A. Feldheim, Michael Heithaus, Sabine Wintner, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Mahmood S. Shivji
The Ups and Downs of Coral Reef Fishes: The Genetic Characteristics of a Formerly Severely Overfished but Currently Recovering Nassau Grouper Fish Spawning Aggregation, Andrea M. Bernard, Kevin Feldheim, Richard S. Nemeth, Elizabeth Kadison, Jeremiah Blondeau, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Demographics of a Nearshore Mating Queen Conch (Lobatus gigas) Aggregation on the Southeast Florida Reef Tract, Charlotte A. Berry, Ronald L. Hill, and Brian K. Walker
Satellite and In Situ Salinity: Understanding Near-Surface Stratification and Sub-Footprint Variability, J. Boutin, Y. Chao, We Asher, T. Delcroix, R. Drucker, K. Drushka, N. Kolodziejczyk, T. Lee, Reul Nicolas, G. Reverdin, J. Schanze, Alexander Soloviev, L. Yu, J. Anderson, L. Brucker, E. Dinnat, As Garcia, W. I. Jones, C. Maes, T. Meissner, W. Tang, N. Vinogradova, and B. Ward
Low Florida Coral Calcification Rates in the Plio-Pleistocene, Thomas C. Brachert, Markus Reuter, Stefan Kruger, James S. Klaus, Kevin P. Helmle, and Janice M. Lough
Spectral Sensitivity, Spatial Resolution and Temporal Resolution and Their Implications for Conspecific Signalling in Cleaner Shrimp, Eleanor M. Caves, Tamara M. Frank, and Sonke Johnsen
A Framework for Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Coral Reef Social-Ecological Systems, Josh Eli Cinner, Morgan S. Pratchett, Nicholas Anthony James Graham, Vanessa Messmer, Mariana Menezes, Prata Bezerra Fuentes, Tracy Ainsworth, Natalie Ban, Line Kolind Bay, Jessica Blythe, Delphine Dissard, Simon Dunn, Louisa Evans, Michael Fabinyi, Pedro Fidelman, Joana Figueiredo, Ashley John Frisch, Christopher John Fulton, Christina Chemtai Hicks, Vimoksalehi Lukoschek, Jennie Mallela, Aurelie Moya, Lucie Penin, Jodie Lynn Rummer, Stefan Walker, and David Hall Williamson
Investigating the Spatial Distribution and Effects of Nearshore Topography on Acropora cervicornis Abundance in Southeast Florida, Nicole D'Antonio, David S. Gilliam, and Brian K. Walker
Biomixing Due to Diel Vertical Migrations of Zooplankton: Comparison of Computational Fluid Dynamics Model with Observations, Cayla Whitney Dean, Alexander Soloviev, Amy Hirons, Tamara M. Frank, and Jon Wood
Diel Variation in the Vertical Distribution of Deep-Water Scattering Layers in the Gulf of Mexico, Marta D'Elia, Joseph D. Warren, Ican Rodriguez-Pinto, Tracey Sutton, April Cook, and Kevin M. Boswell
Evolutionary Heritage Influences Amazon Tree Ecology, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Kyle G. Dexter, Oliver L. Phillips, Roel J. W. Brienen, Jerome Chave, David Galbraith, Gabriela Lopez Gonzalez, Abel Monteagudo M., R. Toby Pennington, Lourens Poorter, Miguel Alexiades, Esteban Alvarez Davila, Ana Andrade, Luiz E. O. C. Aragao, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Eric Arets, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Christopher Baraloto, Jorcely Barroso, Damien Bonal, Rene G. A. Boot, Jose Luis C. Camargo, James A. Comiskey, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Plinio Barbosa de Camargo, Anthony Di Fiore, Fernando Elias, Terry L. Erwin, Ted R. Feldpausch, Leandro Ferreira, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Manuel Gloor, Bruno Herault, Rafael Herrera, Niro Higuchi, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Timothy Killeen, William F. Laurance, Susan G. W. Laurance, Jon Lloyd, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Yadvinder Malhi, Leandro Maracahipes, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben-Hur Marimon Jr., Casimiro Mendoza, Paulo S. Morandi, David Neill, Percy Nunez Vargas, Edmar A. Oliveira, Eddie Lenza, Walter Palacios, Maria C. Penuela-Mora, John J. Pipoly III, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Adriana Prieto, Carlos A. Quesada, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Agustin Rudas, Kalle Ruokolainen, Rafael P. Salomao, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Hans ter Steege, Raquel Thomas, Peter van der Hout, Geertje van der Heijden, Peter J. van der Meer, Rodolfo V. Vasquez, Simone A. Vieira, Emilio Vilanova, Vincent A. Vos, Ophelia Wang, Kenneth R. Young, and Roderick J. Zagt
Genomic Variation Among Populations of Threatened Coral: Acropora cervicornis, C. Drury, K. E. Dale, J. M. Panlilio, S. V. Miller, D. Lirman, E. A. Larson, E. Bartels, D. L. Crawford, and M. F. Oleksiak
How Did the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impact Deep-Sea Ecosystems?, Charles R. Fisher, Paul A. Montagna, and Tracey Sutton
Sponge distribution and the presence of photosymbionts in Moorea, French Polynesia, Christopher J. Freeman and Cole Easson
Coupled Model Simulation of Wind Stress Effect on Far Wakes of Ships in SAR Images, Atsushi Fujimura, Alexander Soloviev, Shin Hyung Rhee, and Roland Romeiser
Depth as a Driver of Evolution in the Deep Sea: Insights from Grenadiers (Gadiformes: Macrouridae) of the Genus Coryphaenoides, Michelle R. Gaither, Biagio Violi, Howard W. I. Gray, Francis Neat, Jeffrey C. Drazen, R. Dean Grubbs, Adela Roa-Varon, Tracey Sutton, and A. Rus Hoelzel
Effects of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Derived from Consumer Products on the Marine Diatom Thalassiosira Pseudonana, Andrea Galletti, Seokju Seo, Sung Hee Joo, Chunming Su, and Patricia Blackwelder
Sponge Biodiversity of Beauchene and the Sea Lion Islands and South-East East Falkland, Falkland Islands, with a Description of Nine New Species, Claire Goodwin, Jennifer Jones, Karen L. Neely, and Paul Brickle
Improving the Spatial Allocation of Functional Group Biomasses in Spatially-Explicit Ecosystem Models: Insights from Three Gulf of Mexico Models, Arnaud Gruss, Elizabeth A. Babcock, Skyler Sagarese, Michael Drexler, David D. Chagaris, Cameron H. Ainsworth, Brad Penta, Sergio DeRada, and Tracey Sutton
Effects of Excavating-Sponge Removal on Coral Growth, Ari Halperin, Andia Chaves Fonnegra, and David S. Gilliam
Ecology and Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in the Penis and Cirri of Barnacles, J. Matthew Hoch, Daniel T. Schneck, and Christopher J. Neufeld
On the Nature of the Frontal Zone of the Choctawhatchee Bay Plume in the Gulf of Mexico, K. D. Huguenard, D. J. Bogucki, D. G. Ortiz-Suslow, N. J. M. Laxague, J. H. MacMahan, T. M. Ozgokmen, Brian K. Haus, A. J. H. M. Reniers, J. Hargrove, Alexander Soloviev, and H. Graber
Variable El Niño-Southern Oscillation influence on biofacies dynamics of eastern Pacific shallow-water carbonate systems, Alexander F. Humphreys, Jochen Halfar, Fernando Rivera, Derek Manzello, Claire E. Reymond, Hildegard Westphal, and Bernhard Riegl
The Non-Native Royal Damsel (Neopomacentrus cyanomos) in the Southern Gulf of Mexico: An Invasion Risk?, Matthew Johnston and John L. Akins
Forecasting the Success of Invasive Marine Species; Lessons Learned from Purposeful Reef Fish Releases in the Hawaiian Islands, Matthew W. Johnston, Samuel J. Purkis, and Richard E. Dodge
Combined Stomach Content and δ13C/δ15N Analyses of Oilfish, Escolar, Snake Mackerel and Lancetfish in the Western North Atlantic, Heidi R. Keller, Amy Hirons, and David W. Kerstetter
Surfactant-Associated Bacteria in the Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean, Naoko Kurata, Katie E. Vella, Bryan Hamilton, Mahmood S. Shivji, Alexander Soloviev, Silvia Matt, Aurelien Tartar, and William Perrie
Crossing the Blood–Brain–Barrier with Transferrin Conjugated Carbon Dots: A Zebrafish Model Study, Shanghao Li, Zhili Peng, Julia Dallman, James Baker, Abdelhameed M. Othman, Patricia Blackwelder, and Roger M. Leblanc
Extant Crinoidea (Echinodermata) of Singapore, Charles Messing and Teresa S. Tay
High Resolution Study of the Spatial Distributions of Abyssal Fishes by Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Rosanna Milligan, K. J. Morris, B. J. Bett, J. M. Durden, D. O. B. Jones, K. Robert, H. A. Ruhl, and D. M. Bailey
Fish Communities Associated with Cold-Water Corals Vary with Depth and Substratum Type, Rosanna Milligan, Gemma Spence, J. Murray Roberts, and David M. Bailey
Sex on the Reef: Observations of Coral Spawning in Dry Tortugas National Park, Karen L. Neely and Tracy A. Ziegler
Effects of Elevated pCO2 and Irradiance on Growth, Photosynthesis and Calcification in Halimeda discoidea, K. E. Peach, M. S. Koch, and Patricia Blackwelder
Comparative Use of a Caribbean Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem and Association with Fish Spawning Aggregations by Three Species of Shark, Alexandra E. Pickard, Jeremy Vaudo, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Richard S. Nemeth, Jeremiah Blondeau, Elizabeth Kadison, and Mahmood S. Shivji
A Half-Century of Coastline Change in Diego Garcia – the Largest Atoll Island in the Chagos, Samuel J. Purkis, Rob Gardiner, and Matthew Johnston
Heterozoan carbonates from the equatorial rocky reefs of the Galápagos Archipelago, Claire E. Reymond, Konny Sebastian Zihrul, Jochen Halfar, Bernhard Riegl, Alexander Humphreys, and Hildegard Westphal
Patterns of Population Structure and Dispersal in the Long-Lived "Redwood" of the Coral Reef, the Giant Barrel Sponge (Xestospongia muta), Vincent P. Richards, Andrea Bernard, Kevin Feldheim, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Local bleaching thresholds established by remote sensing techniques vary among reefs with deviating bleaching patterns during the 2012 event in the Arabian/Persian Gulf, Dawood Shuail, Jörg Wiedenmann, Cecilia D'Angelo, Andrew H. Baird, Morgan S. Pratchett, Bernhard Riegl, John A. Burt, Peter Petrov, and Carl Amos
Surface Dynamics of Crude and Weathered Oil in the Presence of Dispersants: Laboratory Experiment and Numerical Simulation, Alexander Soloviev, Brian K. Haus, Michael G. McGauley, Cayla Whitney Dean, David G. Ortiz-Suslow, Nathan J. M. Laxague, and Tamay M. Ozgokmen
Fecundity and Sexual Maturity of the Coral Siderastrea siderea at High Latitude Along the Florida Reef Tract, USA, Adam T. St. Gelais, Andia Chaves-Fonnegra, Allison Brownlee, Vladimir N. Kosmynin, Alison L. Moulding, and David S. Gilliam
Siderastrea siderea Spawning and Oocyte Resorption at High Latitude, Adam T. St.Gelais, Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Alison L. Moulding, Vladimir N. Kosmynin, and David S. Gilliam
Diversity, Structure and Convergent Evolution of the Global Sponge Microbiome, Torsten Thomas, Lucas Moitinho-Silva, Miguel Lurgi, Johannes R. Bjork, Cole Easson, Carmen Astudillo-Garcia, Julie B. Olson, Patrick M. Erwin, Susanna Lopez-Legentil, Heidi Luter, Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Rodrigo Costa, Peter J. Schupp, Laura Steindler, Dirk Erpenbeck, Jack Gilbert, Rob Knight, Gail Ackermann, Jose V. Lopez, Michael W. Taylor, Robert W. Thacker, Jose M. Montoya, Ute Hentschel, and Nicole S. Webster
Vertical Movements of Shortfin Mako Sharks Isurus oxyrinchus in the Western North Atlantic Ocean are Strongly Influenced by Temperature, Jeremy Vaudo, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Anthony D. Wood, Kevin Weng, Lucy A. Howey-Jordan, Guy Harvey, and Mahmood S. Shivji
A Novel Approach Reveals High Zooplankton Standing Stock Deep in the Sea, Alexander Vereshchaka, Galina Abyzova, Anastasia Lunina, Eteri Musaeva, and Tracey Sutton
Model Suggests Potential for Porites Coral Population Recovery After Removal of Anthropogenic Disturbance (Luhuitou, Hainan, South China Sea), Meixia Zhao, Bernhard Riegl, Kefu Yu, Qi Shi, Qiaomin Zhang, Guohui Liu, Hongqiang Yang, and Hongquiang Yan
The Coral Communities of Yongle Atoll: Status, Threats, and Conservation Significance for Coral Reefs in South China Sea, Meixia Zhao, Kefu Yu, Qi Shi, Hongqiang Yang, Bernhard Riegl, Qiaomin Zhang, Hongqiang Yan, Tianran Chen, Guohui Liu, and Ziyun Lin
Submissions from 2015
Using the West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) as a Mechanism for Invasive Aquatic Plant Management in Florida, Aarin Conrad Allen and Edward O. Keith
Isolation and Characterization of Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers from a Globally Distributed Marine Apex Predator, the Tiger Shark (Galeocerdo cuvier), Andrea Bernard, Kevin A. Feldheim, and Mahmood S. Shivji
Dynamics of Marine Bacterial Community Diversity of the Coastal Waters of the Reefs, Inlets, and Wastewater Outfalls of Southeast Florida, Alexandra Mandina Campbell, Jay Fleisher, Christopher D. Sinigalliano, James R. White, and Jose V. Lopez
Feeding Ecology of the Stomiiformes (Pisces) of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 1. The Sternoptychidae and Phosichthyidae, Vanda Carmo, Tracey Sutton, Gui Menezes, Tone Falkenhaug, and Odd Aksel Bergstad
An International Assessment of Mangrove Management: Incorporation in Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Haille N. Carter, Steffen W. Schmidt, and Amy Hirons
Population Structure and Dispersal of the Coral-Excavating Sponge Cliona delitrix, Andia Chaves Fonnegra, Kevin A. Feldheim, Jesse Secord, and Jose V. Lopez
Trophic Interactions of Common Elasmobranchs in Deep-Sea Communities of the Gulf of Mexico Revealed through Stable Isotope and Stomach Content Analysis, Diana A. Churchill, Michael Heithaus, Jeremy Vaudo, R. Dean Grubbs, Kirk Gastrich, and Jose I. Castro
Global Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeography and Population Structure of the Silky Shark, Carcharhinus falciformis, Christopher R. Clarke, Stephen A. Karl, Rebekah L. Horn, Andrea M. Bernard, James S. Lea, Fabio H.V. Hazin, Paulo A. Prodohl, and Mahmood S. Shivji
A Scientific Basis for Regulating Deep-Sea Fishing by Depth, Jo Clarke, Rosanna Milligan, David M. Bailey, and Francis Neat
A DNA Tool for the Identification of Heavily Exploited Atlantic Billfishes, Rodrigo R. Domingues, Gabriel Okuda, Andrea Bernard, Alberto F. Amorim, Juliana De Biasi, and Alexandre W. S. Hilsdorf
Hyperdominance in Amazonian Forest Carbon Cycling, Sophie Fauset, Michelle O. Johnson, Manuel Gloor, Timothy R. Baker, Abel Monteagudo M., Roel J. W. Brienen, Ted R. Feldpausch, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Yadvinder Malhi, Hans ter Steege, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Christopher Baraloto, Julien Engel, Pascal Petronelli, Ana Andrade, Jose Luis C. Camargo, Susan G. W. Laurance, William F. Laurance, Jerome Chave, Elodie Allie, Percy Nunez Vargas, John W. Terborgh, Kalle Ruokolainen, Marcos Silveira, Gerardo A. Aymard C., Luzmila Arroyo, Damien Bonal, Hirma Ramirez-Angulo, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, David Neill, Bruno Herault, Aurelie Dourdain, Armando Torres-Lezama, Beatriz S. Marimon, Rafael P. Salomao, James A. Comiskey, Maxime Rejou-Mechain, Marisol Toledo, Juan Carlos Licona, Alfred Alarcon, Adriana Prieto, Agustin Rudas, Peter J. van der Meer, Timothy J. Killeen, Ben-Hur Marimon Jr., Lourens Poorter, Rene G. A. Boot, Basil Stergios, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Flavia R. C. Costa, Carolina Levis, Juliana Schietti, Priscila Souza, Nikee Groot, Eric Arets, Victor Chama Moscoso, Wendeson Castro, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Marielos Pena-Claros, Clement Stahl, Jorcely Barroso, Joey Talbot, Ima Celia Guimaraes Vieira, Geertje van der Heijden, Raquel Thomas, Vincent A. Vos, Everton C. Almeida, Esteban Alvarez Davila, Luiz E. O. C. Aragao, Terry L. Erwin, Paulo S. Morandi, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Marco B. X. Valadao, Roderick J. Zagt, Peter van der Hout, Patricia Alvarez Loayza, John J. Pipoly III, Ophelia Wang, Miguel Alexiades, Carlos E. Ceron, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Anthony Di Fiore, Julie Peacock, Nadir C. Pallqui Camacho, Ricardo K. Umetsu, Plinio Barbosa de Camargo, Robyn J. Burnham, Rafael Herrera, Carlos A. Quesada, Juliana Stropp, Simone A. Vieira, Marc Steininger, Carlos Reynel Rodriguez, Zorayda Restrepo, Adriane Esquivel Muelbert, Simon L. Lewis, Georgia C. Pickavance, and Oliver L. Phillips
Habitat Utilization of Blackfin Tuna, Thunnus atlanticus, in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico, Jenny Fenton, Jeffrey M. Ellis, Brett Falterman, and David W. Kerstetter
Book Review - Visual Ecology (Thomas W. Cronin, Sönke Johnsen, N. Justin Marshall, and Eric J. Warrant, Editors), Tamara M. Frank
Trophic Linkages of Intracoastal Waterway Seagrass Beds in Browards County, Florida, Christina Gabriel, David W. Kerstetter, and Amy Hirons
Coral Reef Recovery in the Galapagos Islands: The Northernmost Islands (Darwin and Wenman), Peter W. Glynn, Bernhard Riegl (editor), Samuel J. Purkis, Jeremy Kerr, and Tyler B. Smith
Time-Dependent Bidirectional Effects of Chronic Caffeine on Functional Recovery of the Dorsal Light Reflex After Hemilabyrinthectomy in the Goldfish Carassius auratus, Noah B. Goodson, Bethany Brockhoff, Joseph P. Huston, and Richard E. Spieler
Surfactant Associated Bacteria in the Sea Surface Microlayer: Case Studies in the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, Bryan Hamilton, Cayla Whitney Dean, Naoko Kurata, Katie E. Vella, Alexander Soloviev, Aurelien Tartar, Mahmood S. Shivji, S. Matt, William Perrie, Susanne Lehner, and B. Zhang