Vol. 62 No. S3 (2014): Volume 62 – Supplement 3 – September 2014: Proceedings of the 36th Scientific Meeting of the Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMLC)

Sergio Aguilar

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CREDITOS Y TABLA DE CONTENIDOS

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ECOLOGY

Achsah A. Mitchell, Mona K. Webber, Dayne Buddo, Dale Webber

249–257

Development of a protocol for sampling and analysis of ballast water in Jamaica

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Hugh Small, Kristoffer Lue, Dale Webber, Mona Webber

259–272

The planktonic communities of the Jamaican south-east coast; a comparison of harbor, shelf and oceanic areas

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Robert Anderson, Clare Morrall, Jonathan Jossar, Steve Nimrod, Emily Bolda, Katie Musser, Craig Berg, Robert Balza

273–286

Marine Protected Area monitoring in the nearshore waters of Grenada, Eastern Caribbean: benthic cover and fish populations

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Orville P. Grey, Dale F. St. G Webber, Shimelis G. Setegn, Aseffa M. Melesse

293–305

Application of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT Model) on a small tropical island (Great River Watershed, Jamaica) as a tool in Integrated Watershed and Coastal Zone Management

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Denise A. Chin, Dale F.S. Webber, Mona K. Webber

39–47

Status of the coral reefs in Foul and Folly Bays, Morant Wetlands, south-eastern Jamaica, with emphasis on corals and macroalgae

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Marcia Creary Ford, Loureene Jones Smith, Sean O. Green

65–73

The results of long term coral reef monitoring at three locations in Jamaica: Monkey Island, “Gorgo City” and Southeast Cay

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Patrice A. Francis, Stacey A. Maxam, Mona K. Webber

231–239

Rapid reassessment of the eutrophication status of Kingston Harbour, Jamaica using the zooplankton community

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Helen A. Liu, Sheree A. Broomfield, Anya F. Duncan, Leon O. Grant, Patrice A. Francis, Dale F. Webber, Mona K. Webber

241–248

Assessing the phytoplankton and water quality of Kingston Harbour and Hellshire coast, Jamaica, after the implementation of a waste water treatment facility

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AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES

Abigael C. Brownell, Laurie L. Richardson

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Sulfate reducing bacteria as secondary and necessary pathogens in black band disease of corals

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Andew W. Bruckner, Brian Beck, Phil Renaud

11–24

The status of coral reefs and associated fishes and invertebrates of commercial importance in Pedro Bank, Jamaica

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Ian M. Sandeman

25–38

Unexpected results from direct measurement, with a torsion microbalance in a closed system, of calcification rates of the coral Agaricia agaricites (Scleractinia:Agariicidae) and concomitant changes in seawater pH

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Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, Carmen M. González-Ramos, Pedro Alejandro Camis

49–64

Large-scale coral recruitment patterns on Mona Island, Puerto Rico: evidence of a transitional community trajectory after massive coral bleaching and mortality

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Elizabeth A. Larson, David S. Gilliam, Mauricio López Padiema, Brian K. Walker

75–84

Possible recovery of Acropora palmata (Scleractinia:Acroporidae) within the Veracruz Reef System, Gulf of Mexico: a survey of 24 reefs to assess the benthic communities

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K. Martínez, D. Bone, A. Cróquer, A. López-Ordaz

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Population assessment of Acropora palmata (Scleractinia: Acroporidae): relationship between habitat and reef associated species

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Andrew M. Ross

95–106

Genet and reef position effects in out-planting of nursery-grown Acropora cervicornis (Scleractinia:Acroporidae) in Montego Bay, Jamaica

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Camilo Trench, Hugh Small, Lydia Morrison, Dale Webber, Mona Webber

107–114

Coral and algal community primary succession on new vertical substrate at Rackham’s Cay, Port Royal, Jamaica

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A. Yranzo, E. Villamizar, M. Romero, H. Boadas

115–136

Structure of the coral and octocoral communities of Isla de Aves, Venezuela, Northeast Caribbean

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M. James C. Crabbe

137–140

Evidence of initial coral community recovery at Discovery Bay on Jamaica’s North Coast

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Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado, Alfredo Montañez Acuña, Abimare Otaño-Cruz, Samuel E. Suleiman-Ramos

183–200

Bomb-cratered coral reefs in Puerto Rico, the untold story about a novel habitat: from reef destruction to community-based ecological rehabilitation

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Luis Alfonso Ascencio A., Martha Enriquez D., Imelda Martínez M., Dalila Aldana

201–206

Variation of gonadal cycle of the american oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Ostreoida: Ostreidae) as a function of height in Tamiahua Lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico

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Dalila Aldana Aranda, Jose Francisco Chávez Villegas, Manuel Sánchez Crespo

207–213

Is the Queen conch Strombus gigas (Mesogastropoda: Strombidae) a species with Allee effect?

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Mariana Noguez Nuñez, Dalila Aldana Aranda

215–222

Basic eco-ethology of the queen conch, Strombus gigas (Mesogastropoda: Strombidae) in Xel-Há, Yucatán, Mexican Caribbean

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Jose Francisco Chávez Villegas, Martha Enriquez Díaz, Dalila Aldana Aranda

223–230

Abundance and larval diversity of gastropods in the Mexican Caribbean in relation with temperature, salinity and dissolve oxygen

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AQUATIC VERTEBRATES

Zahra Ennis, Karl Aiken

141–149

Spearfishing as a potential threat to fishery sustainability in Jamaica: a survey of 23 fishing beaches

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Esteban A. Agudo, Eduardo Klein Salas

151–158

Lionfish abundance, size structure and spatial distribution along the Venezuelan coast (Pterois volitans, Pteroinae: Scorpaenidae) Esteban A. Agudo1 & Eduardo Klein Salas2

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Pete Ainsworth, Dale F. St. G Webber

159–167

Breeding success of the masked booby (Sula dactylatra dactylatra, Pelecaniformes:Sulidae) at Middle Cay, Pedro Bank, Jamaica

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Jahson B. Alemu I.

169–181

Fish assemblages on fringing reefs in the southern Caribbean: biodiversity, biomass and feeding types

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M. James C. Crabbe

287–291

Capacity building and policy development in Belize marine protected areas, an example for Caribbean integrated coastal management

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