Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
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Field Guide to Western Atlantic Coral Diseases This Field Guide to Western Atlantic Coral Diseases uses standardized nomenclature and diagnostic criteria for coral diseases developed by the Coral Disease and Health Consortium (CDHC). This involves a three-tiered approach to naming diseases and a …
Improving Restoration Approaches for Acropora palmata: Lessons from the Fortuna Reefer Grounding in Puerto Rico Detached Acropora palmata fragments (n=1857) generated by the M/V Fortuna Reefer grounding off Mona Island, Puerto Rico were secured to reef substrates or dead standing A. …
Implications of Coral Harvest and Transplantation on Reefs in Northwestern Dominica In June, 2002, the government of Dominica requested assistance in evaluating the coral culture and transplantation activities being undertaken by Oceanographic Institute of Dominica (OID), a coral farm culturing both western …
Development of an Island Habitat Classification Scheme for the Amirante Islands, Seychelles A collaborative expedition between Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Cambridge Coastal Research Unit and Seychelles Centre for Marine Research and Technology – Marine Parks Authority (SCMRT-MPA) was …
Crawling to Collapse: Ecologically Unsound Ornamental Invertebrate Fisheries Background: Fishery management has historically been an inexact and reactionary discipline, often taking action only after a critical stock suffers overfishing or collapse. The invertebrate ornamental fishery in the State of Florida, with …
Coral Health and Disease in the Pacific: Vision for Action “We are studying arguably the most complicated ecosystem on the face of the Earth, and it is under serious threat…..We have an incredibly important message, if this ecosystem dies, if …
Reduced Density of the Herbivorous Urchin Diadema antillarum Inside a Caribbean Marine Reserve Linked to Increased Predation Pressure By Fishes Disease has dramatically reduced populations of the herbivorous urchin Diadema antillarum Philippi on Caribbean reefs, contributing to an increased abundance of macroalgae and …
The idea of landscapes as shifting patch mosaics, structured by a range of biological and physical stochastic forces, is well suited to shallow tropical environments, where seagrass patches lie within a matrix of soft sediments or rocky substrates. The interaction of wave …
Progress in Understanding Coral Diseases in the Caribbean Coral disease research in the Caribbean initiated in 1972 with the discovery of black band disease (BDD) by Dr. Arnfred Antonius. Since this time, there has been an expansion in the number of researchers …
