- Bernhard Riegl, (editor), National Coral Reef Institute, Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center
- Richard E. Dodge, (editor), Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center
A defining theme of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium was that the news for coral reef ecosystems are far from encouraging. Climate change happens now much faster than in an ice-age transition, and coral reefs continue to suffer fever-high temperatures as well as sour ocean conditions. Corals may be falling behind, and there appears to be no special silver bullet remedy. Nevertheless, there are hopeful signs that we should not despair.
Reef ecosystems respond vigorously to protective measures and alleviation of stress. For concerned scientists, managers, conservationists, stakeholders, students, and citizens, there is a great role to play in continuing to report on the extreme threat that climate change represents to earth’s natural systems. Urgent action is needed to reduce CO2 emissions. In the interim, we can and must buy time for coral reefs through increased protection from sewage, sediment, pollutants, overfishing, development, and other stressors, all of which we know can damage coral health.
The time to act is now. The canary in the coral-coal mine is dead, but we still have time to save the miners. We need effective management rooted in solid interdisciplinary science and coupled with stakeholder buy in, working at local, regional, and international scales alongside global efforts to give reefs a chance.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/richard-dodge/103/
M01-02.pdf (315 KB) Session 1-02: Response of Acropora to Warm Climates: Lessons From the Geological Past
M01-03.pdf (393 KB) Session 1-03: Enigmatic Coral Rock Pillars - Another Look into Reef Dynamics
M01-04.pdf (252 KB) Session 1-04: Cenozoic Evolution of Larger Benthic Foraminifers: Paleoceanographic Evidence for Changing Habitats
M01-05.pdf (229 KB) Session 1-05: Environmental Factors Controlling Community Structure, Morphology and Linear Extension of Mid-Holocene Reef Corals from Cañada Honda, Southwestern, Dominican Republic
M01-06.pdf (241 KB) Session 1-06: Results of Long-Term Bioerosion Study: Belize Patch Reefs
M01-07.pdf (475 KB) Session 1-07: Reef Slope Failure in the Northeastern Corner of Male, Maldives
M01-08.pdf (501 KB) Session 1-08: Real-Time Coral Stress Observations Before, During, and After Beach Renourishment Dredging Offshore SE Florida
M01-09.pdf (217 KB) Session 1-09: The R/V Alpha Helix Expedition: A Retrospective Analysis of a Milestone in Coral Reef Research
M01-10.pdf (406 KB) Session 1-10: Holocene Reef Accretion Along the North Side of Bahia Enriquillo (Western Dominican Republic): Unique lnsights Into Patterns of Reef Development in Response to Sea-Level Rise
m02-01.pdf (1,197 KB) Session 2-01: Shallow Seismic Profiling Survey on Postglacial Fore-Reef Near the Present-Day Northern Limit of Coral Reef Formation in the Northwestern Pacific
m03-01.pdf (111 KB) Session 3-01: The Darwin Point: A Conceptual and Historical Review
m03-02.pdf (188 KB) Session 3-02: Effects of Ocean Acidification and Increased Temperature on Skeletal Growth of Two Scleractinian Corals, Pocillopora meandrina and Porites rus
m03-03.pdf (224 KB) Session 3-03: Remote Sensing of Changes in Carbonate Production on Coral Reefs: The Florida Keys
m03-04.pdf (642 KB) Session 3-04: Fine Banding in the Septa of Corals
m03-05.pdf (379 KB) Session 3-05: Mineral Phase of COCs and Fibers in Coral Skeletons
m04-01.pdf (335 KB) Session 4-01: Applications of the SEDCON and FORAM Indices on Patch Reefs in Biscayne National Park, FL, USA
m04-02.pdf (275 KB) Session 4-02: The Significance of Geochemical Proxies in Corals, Does Size (Age) Matter?
m04-03.pdf (401 KB) Session 4-03: Opposed Trend of Skeletal Carbon Isotopic Ratios Found in Two Different Coral Species Collected From the Same Site: Genus-Dependent Responses
m04-04.pdf (293 KB) Session 4-04: U/Ca As a Possible Proxy of Carbonate System in Coral Reef
m04-05.pdf (285 KB) Session 4-05: Using Nearshore Macrobenthos as Environmental Indicators Adjacent to a Major Navigational Inlet: Port Everglades Inlet, Florida
m04-06.pdf (219 KB) Session 4-06 Coral Rare Earth Element Tracers of Terrestrial Exposure in Nearshore Corals of the Great Barrier Reef
m05-01.pdf (195 KB) Session 5-01: Environmental Controls on the Establishment and Development of Algal Symbiosis in Corals
m05-02.pdf (180 KB) Session 5-02: Does the Coral Host Protect its Algal Symbionts From Heat and Light Stresses?
m05-03.pdf (247 KB) Session 5-03: Measuring Symbiodinium sp. Gene Expression Patterns with Quantitative Real-Time PCR
m05-04.pdf (893 KB) Session 5-04: High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Analysis of Photosynthetic Pigments in Corals: An Existence of a Variety of Epizoic, Endozoic and Endolithic Algae
m05-05.pdf (282 KB) Session 5-05: Unravelling Coral Photoacclimation: Symbiodinium Strategy and Host Modification
m05-06.pdf (182 KB) Session 5-06: Assessing Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced DNA Damage and Repair in Field-Collected Aiptasia pallida Using the Comet Assay
m05-07.pdf (194 KB) Session 5-07: Induced Bleaching of Stylophora pistillata by Darkness Stress and Its Subsequent Recovery
m05-08.pdf (613 KB) Session 5-08: Thermal Stress Increases Oxidative DNA Damage in Coral Cell Aggregates
m05-09.pdf (195 KB) Session 5-09: Feeding Corals in Captivity: Uptake of Four Artemia-Based Feeds by Galaxea fascicularis
m05-10.pdf (363 KB) Session 5-10: Differential Expression of Soluble and Membrane-Bound Proteins in Soft Corals (Cnidaria: Octocorallia)
M05-11.pdf (214 KB) Session 5-11: Practical Applications of Contaminant-Free Symbiodinium Cultures Grown on Solid Media
m05-12.pdf (113 KB) Session 5-12: Differences in the Distribution of Symbiodinium spp. Among Morphotypes and Genotypes of Porites panamensis from the Gulf of California, Mexico
M06-01.pdf (187 KB) Session 6-01: Reference Gene Selection for qRT-PCR Analysis of the Hawaiian Coral Pocillopora meandrina Subjected to Elevated Levels of Temperature and Nutrient
M07-01.pdf (152 KB) Session 7-01: Coral Health and Disease Assessment in the U.S. Pacific Territories and Affiliated States
M07-02.pdf (641 KB) Session 7-02: White Band Syndromes in Acropora cervicornis Off Broward County, Florida: Transmissibility and Rates of Skeletal Extension and Tissue Loss
M07-03.pdf (1,154 KB) Session 7-03: Ultrastructural and Histological Analysis of Dark Spot Syndrome in Siderastrea siderea and Agaricia agaricites
M07-04.pdf (1,432 KB) Session 7-04: The Unknowns in Coral Disease Identification: An Experiment to Assess Consensus of Opinion Amongst Experts
M07-05.pdf (191 KB) Session 7-05: Coral and Crustose Coralline Algae Disease on the Reefs of American Samoa
M07-06.pdf (265 KB) Session 7-06: Inoculation of Vibrio spp. Onto Montastraea faveolata Fragments to Determine Potential Pathogenicity
M07-07.pdf (356 KB) Session 7-07: A Survey of Vibrios Associated with Healthy and Yellow Band Diseased Montastrea faveolata
M07-08.pdf (640 KB) Session 7-08: Development of a Novel Method for Coral RNA Isolation and the Expression of a Programmed Cell Death Gene in White Plague-Diseased Diploria strigosa (Dana, 1846)
m07-09.pdf (203 KB) Session 7-09: Relative Role of Disease and Predators as Drivers of Decline in Coral Cover on the Great Barrier Reef
M07-10.pdf (302 KB) Session 7-10: Significance of Immune Responses in Diadema antillarum to Caribbean-Wide Mass Mortality
M07-11.pdf (201 KB) Session 7-11: The Future of Coral Reefs in the US Virgin Islands: Is Acropora palmata More Likely to Recover than Montastrea annularis Complex?
M07-12.pdf (819 KB) Session 7-12: Black Band Disease upon the Reefs of Los Cayos Cochinos, Honduras
M07-13.pdf (150 KB) Session 7-13: Coral Yellow Band Disease; Current Status in the Caribbean, and Links to New Indo-Pacific Outbreaks
m08-01.pdf (266 KB) Session 8-01: Role of the Coral Surface Microbiota in Disease: An in situ Test Using the Gorgonia-Aspergillus Pathosystem
m08-02.pdf (178 KB) Session 8-02: PCR-based Assay for Detection of Four Coral Pathogens
m08-03.pdf (172 KB) Session 8-03: Coral-Associated Ammonium Oxidizing Crenarchaeota and Their Role in the Coral Holobiont Nitrogen Cycle
m08-04.pdf (177 KB) Session 8-04: Coral Mucus Bacteria as a Source for Antibacterial Activity
m08-05.pdf (493 KB) Session 8-05: δ13C and δ15N Values for Branching Corals in the Berau Marine Conservation Area in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
m08-06.pdf (413 KB) Session 8-06: Reef Building Coral Goniastrea aspera Harbor a Novel Filamentous Cyanobacterium in Their Skeleton
m08-07.pdf (164 KB) Session 8-07: From Bacterial Bleaching to the Hologenome Theory of Evolution
M09-01.pdf (195 KB) Session 9-01: Dimethylsulfoniopropionate is Linked to Coral Spawning, Fish Abundance and Squid Aggregations Over a Coral Reef
M09-03.pdf (190 KB) Session 9-03: Are Tropical Herbivores More Tolerant of Chemically Rich Seaweeds Than Are Temperate Herbivores? A Test of Seaweed-Herbivore Coevolution
m10-01.pdf (183 KB) Session 10-01: Variation in Social Foraging by Fishes Across a Coral Reef Landscape
m10-02.pdf (2,280 KB) Session 10-02: Factors Influencing Coral Recruitment Patterns in the Sulu Sea Marine Corridors
m10-03.pdf (362 KB) Session 10-03: Differences in Coral-Reef Fish Assemblages Between Mangrove-Rich and Mangrove Poor Islands of Honduras
m10-04.pdf (168 KB) Session 10-04: Effects of Hurricane John (2006) on the Invertebrates Associated with Corals in Bahia de La Paz, Gulf of California
m10-05.pdf (193 KB) Session 10-05: Carry-Over Effects - The Importance of a Good Start
m10-06.pdf (1,315 KB) Session 10-06: Reef Communities in the Dry Tortugas (Florida, USA): Baseline Surveys for the New No-take Area
m10-07.pdf (516 KB) Session 10-07: Physiological Performance of Giant Clams (Tridacna spec.) in a Recirculation System
m10-08.pdf (650 KB) Session 10-08: Secondary Succession of Coral Reef Communities at Urasoko Bay, Ishigaki Island, the Ryukyus (Southern Japan)
m10-09.pdf (305 KB) Session 10-09: Scleractinian Coral Recruitment to Reefs Physically Damaged by Ship Groundings
m10-10.pdf (322 KB) Session 10-10: Underestimated Eroder among Reef Fishes – Experimental Comparison between Ctenochaetus striatus and Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Acanthuridae)
M10-11.pdf (202 KB) Session 10-11: Differential Effect of Early Post-Settlement Processes on the Abundance of Two Concurrently Settling Coral Reef Fishes
M10-12.pdf (359 KB) Session 10-12: Fish Mesograzers as Gatekeepers of the Species Composition of Coral Reefs
M10-13.pdf (498 KB) Session 10-13: Comparison of Sedimentation in Bays and Reefs below Developed versus Undeveloped Watersheds on St. John, US Virgin Islands
M11-01.pdf (180 KB) Session 11-01: Spatial Patterns of Reproductive Synchrony by Four Genera of Tropical Green Seaweed Across a Latitudinal Gradient in the Caribbean
M11-02.pdf (344 KB) Session 11-02: The Effects of Temperature and Light on the Gametogenesis and Spawning of Four Sea Urchin and One Sea Cucumber Species on Coral Reefs in Kenya
M11-03.pdf (194 KB) Session 11-03: Survival of Brooding and Broadcasting Reef Corals Following Large Scale Disturbances: Is There Any Hope for Broadcasting Species During Global Warming?
M11-04.pdf (156 KB) Session 11-04: Multi-Specific Coral Spawning in Spring and Autumn in Far North-Western Australia
M11-05.pdf (296 KB) Session 11-05: Sexual Reproduction in the Soft Coral Lobophytum sp. in Tung Ping Chau Marine Park, Hong Kong SAR, China
M11-06.pdf (252 KB) Session 11-06: Lunar Periodicity of Larval Release and Larval Development of Pocillopora damicornis in Thailand
m11-07.pdf (410 KB) Session 11-07: Light Sensing and the Coordination of Coral Broadcast Spawning Behavior
M12-01.pdf (162 KB) Session 12-01: The Effects of Habitat on Coral Resistance and Resilience to Bleaching
M12-02.pdf (251 KB) Session 12-02: Reef Resilience and Change 1998-2007, Alphonse Atoll, Seychelles
M12-03.pdf (236 KB) Session 12-03: Responses of Coral Hosts and Their Algal Symbionts to Thermal Heterogeneity
M12-04.pdf (258 KB) Session 12-04: Tolerance, Refuge and Recovery of Coral Communities to Thermal Bleaching: Evidence from Reefs of the Seychelles
M12-05.pdf (212 KB) Session 12-05: What is the Future for Extensive Areas of Reef Impacted by Fish Blasting and Coral Bleaching and Now Dominated by Soft Corals? A Case Study from Malaysia
M13-01.pdf (260 KB) Session 13-01: The Maintenance of Reef Islands
M14-01.pdf (187 KB) Session 14-01: Coral Recruits to Settlement Plates at Remote Locations in the U.S. Pacific
M14-02.pdf (166 KB) Session 14-02: Indirect Evidences on the Connectivity of Coral Reefs of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Caribbean
M14-03.pdf (569 KB) Session 14-03: Using Ichthyoplankton Distribution in Selecting Sites for an MPA Network in the Sulu Sea, Philippines
M14-04.pdf (156 KB) Session 14-04: Genetic Structure of the Scleractinian Coral, Pocillopora damicornis, From the Mexican Pacific
M14-05.pdf (220 KB) Session 14-05: Southeast African, High Latitude Coral Communities, a Canary for Western Indian Ocean Coral Reefs?
M14-06.pdf (1,420 KB) Session 14-06: Connectivity of Queen Conch, Strombus gigas, Populations From Mexico
M14-07.pdf (168 KB) Session 14-07: Genetic Variation in Two Morphotypes of Porites panamensis from the Gulf of California, Mexico
M14-08.pdf (227 KB) Session 14-08: Genetic Structure of the Massive Coral Porites panamensis (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the Mexican Pacific
M14-09.pdf (192 KB) Session 14-09: How Do Swimming Ability and Behaviour Affect the Dispersal of Coral Larvae
M14-11.pdf (589 KB) Session 14-11: Variation in Coral Recruitment on Fijian Reefs
M15-01.pdf (458 KB) Session 15-01: Experimental Characterization of the Water Exchanges with Ocean in a Macro-Tidal Intermittently Open Lagoon Bounded by Semi-Submerged Coral Reef
M15-02.pdf (1,500 KB) Session 15-02: Characterization of Biologically Significant Hydrodynamic Anomalies on the Florida Reef Tract
M15-03.pdf (664 KB) Session 15-03: Influence of Florida Current Frontal Eddies on Circulation and Fish Recruitment Around the Florida Keys Reef Tract
M15-04.pdf (339 KB) Session 15-04: Use of the Coral-sel Technique in the Study of Small Scale Water Flow Environments on Coral Growth
M15-05.pdf (396 KB) Session 15-05: ASTER Bathymetry in Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulation of Rongelap Atoll Hydrodynamics, Marshall Islands
M15-06.pdf (365 KB) Session 15-06: Reef Rip Current Generated by Tide and Wave during Summer Season: Field Observation Conducted in Yoshiwara Coast, Ishigakijima, Okinawa, Japan
M16-01.pdf (265 KB) Session 16-01: Using Cellular Diagnostics to Link Land-Based Sources of Pollution with Coral Reef Degradation in South Florida
M16-02.pdf (279 KB) Session 16-02: Area-Calibrated Automation of Coral Classification for Near And Subsurface Reef Videos
M16-03.pdf (189 KB) Session 16-03: Large Scale Coral Mortality in Barbados: A Delayed Response to the 2005 Bleaching Episode
M16-04.pdf (445 KB) Session 16-04: Mapping Reef Structure and Bathymetry in Belize Using Cobra-Tac
M16-05.pdf (265 KB) Session 16-05: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Continuity in Coral Reef Ecosystem Pattern Detection: The Morphology, Distribution and Chemical Environments of Coral Habitats Encompassing Coiba National Park, Panama
M16-06.pdf (77 KB) Session 16-06: Is Sponge Bioerosion Increasing?
M16-07.pdf (143 KB) Session 16-07: The Semantic Reef: A Hypothesis-Based, Eco-Informatics Platform to Support Automated Knowledge Discovery for Remotely Monitored Reef Systems
M16-08.pdf (142 KB) Session 16-08: GBROOS – An Ocean Observing System for the Great Barrier Reef
M16-09.pdf (139 KB) Session 16-09: Ecological Forecasting for Coral Reef Ecosystems
M16-10.pdf (969 KB) Session 16-10: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Resurvey Bonaire: A New Tool for Coral Reef Management
M16-11.pdf (105 KB) Session 16-11: The Instrumental Architecture of a Coral Reef Early Warning System (CREWS) Station
M16-12.pdf (283 KB) Session 16-12: CoralWatch - A Flexible Coral Bleaching Monitoring Tool for You and Your Group
M16-13.pdf (149 KB) Session 16-13: Testing the Generality of Acoustic Cue Use at Settlement in Larval Coral Reef Fish
M16-14.pdf (575 KB) Session 16-14: A Glimpse of the Florida Area Coastal Environment (FACE) Program
M16-15.pdf (184 KB) Session 16-15: Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS): A One Stop Shop for Coral Information
M16-16.pdf (329 KB) Session 16-16: Biological and Physical Characteristics of a Mesophotic Coral Reef: Black Jack Reef, Vieques, Puerto Rico
M16-17.pdf (251 KB) Session 16-17: Colored Dissolved Organic Material Increases Resiliency of Coral Reefs by Controlling Exposure to UVR
M16-18.pdf (2,664 KB) Session 16-18: Second-Generation Landscape Mosaics of Coral Reefs
M16-19.pdf (553 KB) Session 16-19: The Light and Motion Sensor Program: Low Cost Coral Reef Monitoring
M16-20.pdf (975 KB) Session 16-20: COREweb, a Web-Based Information Management Solution for Experimental Data from the Field of Coral Reef Ecology
M17-01.pdf (385 KB) Session 17-01: Monitoring Coral Reefs in Optically-Deep Waters
M17-02.pdf (235 KB) Session 17-02: GIS Derived Spatial Analysis as a Tool to Predict Nearshore Coral Reef Fish Species Presence in American Samoa
M17-03.pdf (278 KB) Session 17-03: An Investigation of Coral Reef Fish Assemblage Modelling with Geostatistical Methods
M17-04.pdf (399 KB) Session 17-04: Changes in Spectral Reflectance in Response to Salinity Variation in Siderastrea radians from Florida Bay, Florida USA
M17-05.pdf (358 KB) Session 17-05: Single-Beam Acoustic Remote Sensing for Coral Reef Mapping
M17-06.pdf (453 KB) Session 17-06: NASA Airborne AVIRIS and DCS Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs
M17-07.pdf (318 KB) Session 17-07: An Investigation of Seagrass Patterns at Alphonse Atoll, Seychelles: Linking Structure to Function in Marine Landscapes
M17-08.pdf (742 KB) Session 17-08: A Pan-Sharpening Method for Satellite Image-Based Coral Reef Monitoring with Higher Accuracy
M17-09.pdf (194 KB) Session 17-09: Remote Sensing for Studies of the Spatial Distribution of Coral Reef Fishes
M17-10.pdf (921 KB) Session 17-10: Pre-Processing 2005 AVIRIS Data for Coral Reef Analysis
M17-11.pdf (373 KB) Session 17-11: Habitat Mapping in the Farasan Islands (Saudi Arabia) Using CASI and QuickBird Imagery
M17-12.pdf (249 KB) Session 17-12: Status and Monitoring the Health of Coral Reef Using Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing - A Case Study of Pirotan Coral Reef Island, Marine National Park, Gulf of Kachchh, Gujarat, India
M17-13.pdf (252 KB) Session 17-13: Comparison of in situ Temperature Data from the Southern Seychelles with SST Data: Can Satellite Data Alone Be Used to Predict Coral Bleaching Events?
M17-14.pdf (473 KB) Session 17-14: A Model Framework for Predicting Reef Fish Distributions Across the Seascape Using GIS Topographic Metrics and Benthic Habitat Associations
M17-15.pdf (571 KB) Session 17-15: Seaflor Characterization Using Multibeam and Optical Data at French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
M17-16.pdf (341 KB) Session 17-16: Comparing Semi-Automated Methods for Classifying Multibeam SoNAR & Airborne LiDAR Imagery
M17-17.pdf (506 KB) Session 17-17: Assessing the Distribution of Patch Reef Morphologies in the Lower Florida Keys, US
M18-01.pdf (254 KB) Session 18-01: Macroalgal Distribution in a Mexican Caribbean Reef
M18-02.pdf (592 KB) Session 18-02: Mapping Bottom Features of the Site Selected for the Underwater Observatory in Sharm el Sheikh (South Sinai, Egypt)
M18-03.pdf (244 KB) Session 18-03: Distribution, Abundance and Volume of Xestospongia muta at Selected Sites in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
M18-04.pdf (248 KB) Session 18-04: Impacts of Coastal Development on Ecosystem Structure and Function of Yacatan Coral Reefs, Mexico
M18-05.pdf (295 KB) Session 18-05: Was the 1998 Coral Bleaching in the Southern Seychelles a Catastrophic Disturbance? - 1999-2006 Reef Fish Responses to Coral Substrate Changes
M18-06.pdf (202 KB) Session 18-06: Cozumel Island, Mexico: A Disturbance History
M18-07.pdf (235 KB) Session 18-07: Population Status of the Urchin Diadema antillarum in the Florida Keys 25 Years After the Caribbean Mass Mortality
M18-08.pdf (526 KB) Session 18-08: Coral Reef Monitoring for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Tobago
M18-09.pdf (272 KB) Session 18-09: Ecological Patterns and Status of the Reefs of Sudan
M18-10.pdf (197 KB) Session 18-10: The Jamaica Coral Reef Monitoring Network (JCRMN)
M18-11.pdf (601 KB) Session 18-11: Coral Bleaching Mortality and Resilience at Stetson Bank, a High Latitude Coral Community in the Gulf of Mexico
M18-12.pdf (157 KB) Session 18-12: Spatial and Temporal Recovery Patterns of Coral Reefs Within the Gulf of Oman (United Arab Emirates) Following the 2007 Cyclone Disturbance
M18-13.pdf (473 KB) Session 18-13: Bathymetric Distribution of the Benthic Marine Flora in Chemuyil, Mexico
M18-14.pdf (172 KB) Session 18-14: Continued Degradation of Tobago's Coral Reefs Linked to the Prevalence of Coral Disease Following the 2005 Mass Coral Bleaching Event
M18-15.pdf (162 KB) Session 18-15: Small-Scale Variations in the Effects of Coral Bleaching in Rodrigues
M18-16.pdf (245 KB) Session 18-16: Impacts of Non-Point Source Sewage Pollution on Elkhorn Coral, Acropora palmata (Lamarck), Assemblages of the Southwestern Puerto Rico Shelf
M18-17.pdf (176 KB) Session 18-17: Coral Reef Habitat Around New Providence Island, Bahamas
M18-18.pdf (209 KB) Session 18-18: Comparison of Benthic Communities on Six Coral Reefs in the Veracruz Reef System (Mexico)
M18-19.pdf (247 KB) Session 18-19: A Photographic Method for Analyzing Areal Chlorophyll and Bleaching Status of the Coral Stylophora pistillata
M18-20.pdf (344 KB) Session 18-20: Demographic Comparison of Threatened Elkhorn Coral, Acropora palmata, in the Caribbean: A Case Study in Successful Volunteer Partnerships in a Regional-Scale Monitoring Program
M18-21.pdf (396 KB) Session 18-21: The Effects of Hurricane-Deposited Mud on Coral Communities in Florida
M18-22.pdf (229 KB) Session 18-22: Population Status of Acropora Corals in the Florida Keys
M18-23.pdf (484 KB) Session 18-23: Observations of a Red Sea Fringing Coral Reef under Extreme Environmental Conditions
M18-24.pdf (208 KB) Session 18-24: Occupancy Models for Estimating the Size of Reef Fish Communities
M18-25.pdf (228 KB) Session 18-25: Long-Term Changes in Taxonomic Distinctness and Trophic Structure of Reef Fishes at Cabo Pulmo Reef, Gulf of California
M18-26.pdf (771 KB) Session 18-26: Post-Hurricane Assessment (Hurricane Rita, September 2005) and Recovery at the East Flower Garden Bank, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
M18-27.pdf (224 KB) Session 18-27: Stony Coral Species Diversity and Cover in the Florida Keys Using Design-Based Sampling
M18-28.pdf (180 KB) Session 18-28: Patterns in Southeast Florida Coral Reef Community Composition
M18-29.pdf (314 KB) Session 18-29: Organisms Associated with Live Scleractinian Corals as Indicators of Coral Reef Status in the Wakatobi Marine National Park (SE Sulawesi, Indonesia)
M18-30.pdf (200 KB) Session 18-30: Elkhorn Coral Distribution and Condition throughout the Puerto Rican Archipelago
M18-31.pdf (277 KB) Session 18-31: The Prevalence of Skeletal Growth Anomaly and Other Afflictions in Scleractinian Corals at Wai‘ōpae, Hawai‘i
M18-32.pdf (679 KB) Session 18-32: Distrubance and Recovery of Mangrove Forests and Macrobenthic Communities in Andaman Sea, Thailand Following the Indian Ocean Tsunami
M18-33.pdf (650 KB) Session 18-33: Rapid Recovery From Bleaching Events - Fiji Coral Reef Monitoring Network Assessment of Hard Coral Cover From 1999-2007
M18-34.pdf (237 KB) Session 18-34: Socioeconomic Monitoring (SocMon) as a Tool in the Management of Marine Protected Areas: Participatory Process and Initial Survey Results in Binduyan Fish Sanctuary, Palawan, Philippines
M18-35.pdf (601 KB) Session 18-35: Reefs at Risk in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia - Status and Outlook
M18-36.pdf (139 KB) Session 18-36: Response of Caribbean Reefs to Repeated Stress Events
M18-37.pdf (203 KB) Session 18-37: New Insights into the Exposure and Sensitivity of Coral Reefs to Ocean Warming
M18-38.pdf (241 KB) Session 18-38: Status of Coral Reefs in Post-Tsunami Period in Andaman & Nicobar Islands
M18-39.pdf (106 KB) Session 18-39: Invertebrates, Communities, and Reef Health in Airai, The Republic of Palau
M18-40.pdf (265 KB) Session 18-40: Examination of Algal Diversity and Benthic Community Structure at Palmyra Atoll, U.S. Line Islands
M18-41.pdf (77 KB) Session 18-41: Assessment of Resilience in Montastrea faveolata Inside and Outside of a Marine Park
M18-42.pdf (133 KB) Session 18-42: Decline of Crinoids on the Reefs of Curacao and Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
M18-43.pdf (303 KB) Session 18-43: Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Coral Bleaching Around Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
M18-44.pdf (357 KB) Session 18-44: Declining Trend on the Mesoamerican Reef System Marine Protected Areas
M19-01.pdf (197 KB) Session 19-01: Nitrogen Fixation in Coral Reef Environments
M19-02.pdf (234 KB) Session 19-02: Role of Organic Matter in Chemical Symbiosis at Coral Reefs: Release of Organic Nitrogen and Amino Acids Under Heat Stress
M19-03.pdf (188 KB) Session 19-03: Exposure to Nutrient-Enriched Sediments Mitigates the Negative Impacts of Sedimentation on Coral Growth in the Caribbean Corals Porites astreoides and Siderastrea siderea
M19-04.pdf (206 KB) Session 19-04: First Evidence of Coral Bleaching Stimulating Organic Matter Release by Reef Corals
M19-05.pdf (234 KB) Session 19-05: Hemichordata: Enteropneusta (Acorn Worm) Bioturbation: Maintaining and Facilitating the Balance of Coral Reef Biogeochemical Cycles
M19-06.pdf (212 KB) Session 19-06: New Approach to Study the Coral Symbiotic Complex: Application to Vitamin B12
M19-07.pdf (344 KB) Session 19-07: Recycling-Oriented Aquaculture System Utilizing Natural Ecological Functions of Mangrove Organisms
M19-08.pdf (339 KB) Session 19-08: Activities of Antioxidant Enzymes (SOD and CAT) in the Coral Galaxea fascicularis Against Increased Hydrogen Peroxide Concentrations in Seawater
M19-09.pdf (189 KB) Session 19-09: Nitrogen Dynamics in Symbiotic Relationships in Corals
M19-10.pdf (233 KB) Session 19-10: Long-Term Effects of Inorganic Nitrogen Enrichment on the Reef-Building Corals Stylophora pistillata and Acropora spp.
M19-11.pdf (169 KB) Session 19-11: Dual-Carbon Sources Fuel the OCS Deep-Reef Community, a Stable Isotope Investigation
M19-12.pdf (203 KB) Session 19-12: Bacterial Degradability of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Coral Mucus
M20-02.pdf (591 KB) Session 20-02: NOAA Coral Reef Watch Coral Bleaching Outlook System
M20-03.pdf (174 KB) Session 20-03: Recovery of Diadema antillarum and the Potential for Active Rebuilding Measures: Modelling Population Dynamics
M21-01.pdf (178 KB) Session 21-01: Measuring the Effects of Marine Managed Areas: A Global Management Effectiveness Study
M21-02.pdf (134 KB) Session 21-02: Towards a Close Integration of Social and Natural Sciences
M21-03.pdf (130 KB) Session 21-03: The Political Aspects of Resilience
M21-04.pdf (173 KB) Session 21-04: New Eco-Development Initiatives Involving Local People in the Conservation of Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Wandoor (India)
M21-05.pdf (116 KB) Session 21-05: Integrated Economic Valuation in Coral Reef Management: Demonstration, Appropriation and Utilization of Coral Reef Economic Values for Sustainability and Conservation
M21-06.pdf (183 KB) Session 21-06: Towards Local Fishers Participation in Coral Reef Monitoring:A Case in Tingloy, Batangas, Philippines
M22-01.pdf (207 KB) Session 22-01: Are the Coral Reef Finfish Fisheries of South Florida Sustainable?
M22-02.pdf (397 KB) Session 22-02: Reproductive Classification and Spawning Seasonality of Epinephelus striatus (Nassau Grouper), E. guttatus (Red Hind) an Mycteroperca venenosa (Yellowfin Grouper) from The Bahamas
M22-03.pdf (427 KB) Session 22-03: Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Juvenile and Adult Abundance and Biomass of Reef Fishes in the Sulu Sea, Philippines
M22-04.pdf (182 KB) Session 22-04: Size Spectra Analysis as a Tool to Examine Management Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas
M22-05.pdf (412 KB) Session 22-05: The Relevance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Modern Management of Coral Reef Fisheries in Melanesia
M22-06.pdf (234 KB) Session 22-06: Managing Fishing Gear to Encourage Ecosystem-Based Management of Coral Reefs Fisheries
M22-07.pdf (260 KB) Session 22-07: Indications of Recruitment Enhancement in the Sea Urchin Tripneustes gratilla Due to Stock Restoration Efforts
M22-08.pdf (780 KB) Session 22-08: The Coupling of St. John, US Virgin Islands Marine Protected Areas Based on Reef Fish Habitat Affinities and Movements Across Management Boundaries
M22-09.pdf (753 KB) Session 22-09: Banggai Cardinalfish: Towards a Sustainable Ornamental Fishery
M22-10.pdf (139 KB) Session 22-10: Differential Depth Effects Upon Biomass Patterns in an Herbivorous Coral Reef Fish Assemblage
M22-11.pdf (258 KB) Session 22-11: Photo-ID on Reef Fish - Avoiding Tagging-Induced Biases
M22-12.pdf (209 KB) Session 22-12: Management of the Aquarium Fishery in the Republic of Maldives
M22-13.pdf (907 KB) Session 22-13: Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations in the Bay of Bengal: Awareness and Occurrence
M22-14.pdf (211 KB) Session 22-14: Preliminary Assessment of the Socio-Economic Importance of Export Trade in Coral Reef Resources on Fijian Society
M22-15.pdf (258 KB) Session 22-15: Improving Management of Coral Reefs Fisheries in Data Limited Situations: Experiences from the ParFish Methodology
M22-16.pdf (298 KB) Session 22-16: Short Term Response of Coral Reef Fish Communities Under Customary Management in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
M23-01.pdf (176 KB) Session 23-01: Changes in Reef Fish Biomass in Karimunjawa National Park: A Test of the Effectiveness of Government Gazetted Marine Parks in Indonesia
M23-02.pdf (136 KB) Session 23-02: Community Sea Tenure and the Establishment of Marine Reserve Networks in the Pacific Islands
M23-03.pdf (345 KB) Session 23-03: An Ecological Correction to Marine Reserve Boundaries in the US Virgin Islands
M23-04.pdf (156 KB) Session 23-04: Biological Criteria for Protection of U.S. Coral Reefs
M23-05.pdf (182 KB) Session 23-05: Macrobenthic Diversity Reaction to Human Impacts on Maceio Coral Reefs, Alagoas, Brazil
M23-06.pdf (177 KB) Session 23-06: The U.S. Coral Reef Task Force: A Model for Fostering Coral Reef Management at National to Local Scales
M23-07.pdf (219 KB) Session 23-07: Finding the Right Fit for Ecosystem-Based Management in the Philippines
M23-08.pdf (199 KB) Session 23-08: Post Hurricane Dynamics and Status of Coral Reefs St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
M23-09.pdf (198 KB) Session 23-09: Water Quality Standards for Coral Reef Protection
M23-10.pdf (151 KB) Session 23-10: Management and Monitoring for Coral Reef Conservation in the Port of Singapore
M23-11.pdf (315 KB) Session 23-11: Systematic Marine Conservation Planning: Towards a Marine Representative Areas Network in Nanggruh Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia
M23-12.pdf (156 KB) Session 23-12: Fishery Management for Artisanal Reef Fisheries in Developing Countries: A Holistic Economic Approach
M23-13.pdf (188 KB) Session 23-13: Contaminants in Fishes from Johnston Atoll
M23-14.pdf (212 KB) Session 23-14: Ecological Effects of the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Removal Programme on Chumbe Island Coral Park, Zanzibar, Tanzania
M23-15.pdf (106 KB) Session 23-15: Empowering Fisher Women Through ICT in Reef Conservation and Management - A Case Study from Tuticorin Coast of the Gulf of Mannar, Southeastern India
M23-16.pdf (1,040 KB) Session 23-16: Habitat Similarity Between an Artificial Reef and the Surrounding Natural Hardbottom in Broward County, FL, USA
M23-17.pdf (260 KB) Session 23-17: St. Croix East End Marine Park: The U.S. Virgin Islands' First Territorial Marine Park
M23-18.pdf (256 KB) Session 23-18: Socioeconomic and Governance Monitoring of Marine Managed Areas: A Work in Progress
M23-19.pdf (134 KB) Session 23-19: The Value of Coral Quality to SCUBA Divers in Barbados
M23-20.pdf (182 KB) Session 23-20: Managing Indonesian Coral Reefs: Lessons from Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program
M23-21.pdf (331 KB) Session 23-21: Post-Hurricane Assessment of Reefs and Banks in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico
M23-22.pdf (453 KB) Session 23-22: Patterns of Spatial Variability in Distribution of Benthic Invertebrates and Algae at Sharm el Sheikh (South Sinai, Egypt)
M23-24.pdf (257 KB) Session 23-24: Coral Reef Conservation Campaign in Brazil
M23-25.pdf (125 KB) Session 23-25: Voluntary Standards as a Tool for Increasing the Sustainability of the Marine Recreation Industry and Improving MPA Effectiveness in Hawaii and Mesoamerica
M23-26.pdf (96 KB) Session 23-26: Hurricanes and Corals in Southern Belize: From Science to Management and Policy Development
M23-27.pdf (100 KB) Session 23-27: Challenges for Effective and Sustainable Co-Managed Marine Protected Areas: A Case Study From the Comoros Islands
M23-28.pdf (40 KB) Session 23-28: Development of a Strategy to Guide the Use of Remotely Sensed Information in the Management of Coral Reef Environments
M23-29.pdf (98 KB) Session 23-29: Monitoring and Evaluation: Lessons from Tubbataha Reef National Park and Coron Island Ancestral Domain, Philippines
M23-30.pdf (98 KB) Session 23-30: Green Fins-Thailand: Coral Reef Conservation in the Face of a Tourism Epidemic
M24-01.pdf (186 KB) Session 24-01: Restoration of Threatened Acropora cervicornis Corals: Intraspecific Variation as a Factor in Mortality, Growth, and Self-Attachment
M24-02.pdf (209 KB) Session 24-02: Improving Restoration Approaches for Acropora palmata: Lessons from the Fortuna Reefer Grounding in Puerto Rico
M24-03.pdf (201 KB) Session 24-03: The Effectiveness of Macroalgal Reduction and Diadema antillarum Addition in Limiting Macroalgal Growth and Facilitating Coral Recovery
M24-04.pdf (614 KB) Session 24-04: Benthic Colonization and Ecological Successional Patterns on a Planned Nearshore Artificial Reef System in Broward County, SE Florida
M24-05.pdf (295 KB) Session 24-05: Effects of Herbiovre Grazing on Juvenile Coral Growth in the Gulf of Mexico
M24-06.pdf (249 KB) Session 24-06: Settlement Behavior of Acropora palmata planulae: Effects of Biofilm Age and Crustose Coralline Algal Cover
M24-07.pdf (584 KB) Session 24-07: Multivariate Responses of the Coral Reef Fish Community to Artificial Structures and Coral Transplants
M24-08.pdf (840 KB) Session 24-08: Recovery of Injured Giant Barrel Sponges, Xestospongia muta, Offshore Southeast Florida
M24-09.pdf (296 KB) Session 24-09: A Study of the Effect of Sediment Accumulation on the Settlement of Coral Larvae Using Conditioned Tiles
M24-10.pdf (521 KB) Session 24-10: Coral Recruitment and Community Development: The Broward County Artificial Reef Compared to Adjacent Hardbottom Areas, Five Years Post-Deployment
M24-11.pdf (221 KB) Session 24-11: Development of a Coral Nursery Program for the Threatened Coral Acropora cervicornis in Florida
M24-12.pdf (317 KB) Session 24-12: Coral Relocation for Impact Mitigation in Northern Qatar
M24-14.pdf (304 KB) Session 24-14: The "Eco-Block" as a Coral-Friendly Contrivance in Port Construction
M24-15.pdf (281 KB) Session 24-15: Survival and Growth of Acropora spp. in Mid-Water Nursery and After Transplantation at Phi Phi Islands, Andaman Sea, Thailand
M24-16.pdf (258 KB) Session 24-16: Coral Transplants as Rubble Stabilizers: A Technique to Rehabilitate Damaged Reefs
M24-17.pdf (310 KB) Session 24-17: Large Coral Transplantation in Bal Haf (Yemen): An Opportunity to Save Corals During the Construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas Plant Using Innovative Techniques
M24-18.pdf (440 KB) Session 24-18: Transplantation of Porites lutea to Rehabilitate Degraded Coral Reef at Maiton Island, Phuket, Thailand
M25-01.pdf (200 KB) Session 25-01: Analysis of Reef Fish Abundance in the Gulf of California, and Projection of Changes by Global Warming
M25-02.pdf (155 KB) Session 25-02: Does Body Colouration Influence Predation Risk of Coral-Dwelling Reef Fish in Bleached Landscapes?
M25-03.pdf (268 KB) Session 25-03: Coral Reefs of the Gulf of Mannar, Southeastern India - Observations on the Effect of Elevated SST During 2005-2008
M25-04.pdf (182 KB) Session 25-04: Annual Summer Bleaching of a Multi-Species Coral Community in Backreef Pools of American Samoa: A Window on the Future?
M25-05.pdf (231 KB) Session 25-05: The Effect of High and Extreme Temperature Increase on the Coral Porites lutea and Five Different Algae in Northern Vietnam
M25-06.pdf (390 KB) Session 25-06: Reef Development and Resilience to Acute (El Nino Warming) and Chronic (High-CO2) Disturbances in the Eastern Tropical Pacific: A Real-World Climate Change Model
M25-07.pdf (256 KB) Session 25-07: Bleaching as a Life History Trait in Coral-Zooxanthellae Holobionts - Relevance to Acclimatization and Adaptation
M25-08.pdf (218 KB) Session 25-08: Protracted Declines in Coral Cover and Fish Abundance Following Climate-Induced Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef
M25-09.pdf (583 KB) Session 25-09: Coral Ultrastructural Response to Elevated pCO2 and Nutrients During Tissue Repair and Regeneration
M25-10.pdf (237 KB) Session 25-10: Comparative Investigation of Organic Matter Release by Corals and Benthic Reef Algae - Implications for Pelagic and Benthic Microbial Metabolism
M25-11.pdf (1,334 KB) Session 25-11: Implications for Our Coral Reefs in a Changing Climate over the Next Few Decades -- Hints From the Past 22 years
M25-12.pdf (265 KB) Session 25-12: Adaptation/Exaptation in the host coral Favites complanata (Ehrenberg, 1834; Scleractinia, Faviidae) to increased Seawater Temperatures
M25-13.pdf (39 KB) Session 25-13: GIS Modeling and Mitigation of Coral Reef Damage
M26-01.pdf (271 KB) Session 26-01: Biodiversity of Reefs: Inferring From Sparse Data
M26-02.pdf (184 KB) Session 26-02: Diversity and Abundance of Reef Macro Invertebrates (Mollusca; Echinodermata) in the Southern Gulf of California, Mexico
M26-03.pdf (940 KB) Session 26-03: What Are the Costs of Bad Taxonomic Practices: And What is Madracis mirabilis?
M26-04.pdf (174 KB) Session 26-04: Biodiversity of Cryptofauna Associated with Reefs of the Los Roques ARchipelago National Park, Venezuela
M26-05.pdf (265 KB) Session 26-05: Comparison of Bacterial Diversity within the Coral Reef Sponge, Axinella corrugata, and the Encrusting Coral Erythropodium caribaeorum
M26-06.pdf (237 KB) Session 26-06: Diversity of Gorgonians and Influence of Cutting on Their Growth in the Upper Gulf of Thailand
M26-07.pdf (359 KB) Session 26-07: The Biogeography of Damselfish Skull Evolution: A Major Radiation Throughout the Indo-West Pacific Produces No Unique Skull Shapes
M26-08.pdf (715 KB) Session 26-08: Effects of Coral Mortality on the Community Composition of Cryptic Metazoans Associated with Pocillopora damicornis
M26-09.pdf (256 KB) Session 26-09: Preliminary Results On Marine Algae Of Madagascar Reef, Yucatan, México: a Functional Group Approach
M26-10.pdf (219 KB) Session 26-10: Speciation Extinction Dynamics and the Topography of Diversity on Indo-West Pacific Coral Reefs
M26-11.pdf (273 KB) Session 26-11: Intragenomic ITS2 Variation in Caribbean Seafans
M26-12.pdf (376 KB) Session 26-12: Soft Coral Biodiversity and Distribution in East Africa: Gradients, Function and Significance
M26-13.pdf (200 KB) Session 26-13: Recent Sightings of Longsnout Seahorse, Hippocampus reidi in the Marine Environment of St. Kitts, Lesser Antilles
M26-14.pdf (301 KB) Session 26-14: Cymothoid Isopods on Coral Reef Fishes in the Near Shore Marine Environment of St. Kitts, Lesser Antilles
M26-15.pdf (274 KB) Session 26-15: Habitats and Biodiversity of Ningaloo Reef Lagoon, Western Australia
M26-16.pdf (206 KB) Session 26-16: Coral Systematics Inferred from the Gene Galaxin: Exploring Phylogenetic Relationships Using a Putative Determinant of Skeletal Morphology
M26-17.pdf (152 KB) Session 26-17: Need For a More Integrative Approach to Scleractinian Taxonomy
M26-18.pdf (302 KB) Session 26-18: Species Richness and Morphological Diversity of the Genus Porites in the Pacific Ocean
M26-19.pdf (212 KB) Session 26-19: Coral Assemblages of Cabo Verde: Preliminary Assessment and Description