Sedimentation as an important environmental influence on Dominican Republic reefs

Bulletin of Marine Science

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 805-818

  Torres, Ruben ^a   Chiappone, Mark ^a   Geraldes, Francisco ^a   Rodriguez, Yira ^a   Vega, Monica ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; HARD-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; MAPPING; REEF; SEDIMENTATION;

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC;

ACROPORA CERVICORNIS; ACROPORA PALMATA; ANTHOZOA; DOMINGOA HAEMATOCHILA; MONTASTRAEA CAVERNOSA; SIDERASTREA SIDEREA;

EID: 0035685053     PISSN: 00074977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (39)

1. Holocene bioherms of the Lesser Antilles - Geologic control of development
2. Lethal and sublethal effects of dredging on reef corals
3. Patterns of oil-sediment rejection in corals
4. Patterns in the structural typology of benthic communities on two coral reefs of the central Great Barrier Reef
5. Assessing the effects of "stress" on reef corals
6. Rapid assessment of reefs in the Florida Keys: Results from a synoptic survey
7. Status of reefs in the central Bahamas based on a large-scale survey
8. Reef sediment transport and deposition off the east coast of Carriacou, West Indies
9. El arrecife del Parque Nacional Cahuita, Costa Rica
10. A reef under siltation stress: Cahuita, Costa Rica
11. Coral growth related to resuspension of bottom sediments
12. Coral populations and growth patterns: Responses to sedimentation and turbidity associated with dredging
13. Reef stress at Cahuita Point, Costa Rica: Anthropogenically enhanced sediment influx or natural geomorphic change?
14. Sedimentation as a control of reef development: St. Croix, U.S.V.I.
15. Sediment rejection by recent scleractinian corals: A key to paleo-environmental reconstruction
16. Gorgonian community structure and reef zonation patterns on Yucatan coral reefs
17. The zonation of West Indian gorgonians
18. Effects of water turbidity and sedimentation on the community structure of Puerto Rican corals
19. Mona Passage drift bottle study
20. Surface currents in the Caribbean Sea as deduced from langrangian observations
21. Reef response to sea level rise: Keep-up, catch-up or give-up
22. Abundance and distribution of shallow-water gorgonians in the area of Miami, Florida
23. Aspects of sedimentation in the coral reef environment
24. Effects of sewage pollution on coral-reef communities
25. Sublethal and lethal effects of sediments applied to common Caribbean reef corals in the field
26. Responses of coral reefs and reef organisms to sedimentation
27. Gorgonian communities in two contrasting environments in oceanic atolls of the southwestern Caribbean
28. Ecology and morphology of recent coral reefs
29. Effects of eutrophication on reef-building corals. I. Growth rate of the reef-building coral Montastrea annularis
30. Regional overview of land-based sources of pollution in the wider Caribbean region
31. Algal zonation in the fringing coral reef of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, in relation to zonation of corals and gorgonians
32. Coral death from sewage and phosphate pollution at Aqaba, Red Sea
33. A comparison of coral reef survey methods
34. Variable effects of Hurricane David on the shallow water gorgonians of Puerto Rico
35. Effects of wave energy, topographic relief and sediment transport on the distribution of shallow-water gorgonians of Puerto Rico