The Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean

Proceedings of the 33rd Scientific Meeting of the / Memorias de la 33a Reunión Científica de la

Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMLC)
Asociación de Laboratorios Marinos del Caribe (ALMC)

CONTENTS / CONTENIDO


Organizers.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. VII
Sponsors.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. VIII
Welcome.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. IX
Reviewers.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. X
Program.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. XI
Poster Sessions.……………………………………………………………………………………………………. XIX

I.M. Sandeman
Light driven lipid peroxidation of coral membranes and a suggested role in calcification.……………………….		 1-9

C. Menza, M. Kendall & S. Hile
The deeper we go the less we know.……………………………………………………………………………….		 11-24

T.J. Goreau, T. Fisher, F. Perez, K. Lockhart, M. Hibbert & A. Lewin
Turks and Caicos Islands 2006 coral reef assessment: large-scale environmental and ecological interactions and their management implications.…………………………………………………………………………………….		 25-49

D.G. Zawada, P.R. Thompson & J. Butcher
A new towed platform for the unobtrusive surveying of benthic habitats and organisms.……………………….		 51-63

R.S. LeGore, M.P. Hardin, J.R. García-Sais & J.R. Brice
Marine ornamental trade in Puerto Rico: rapid population assessment of primary target species.……………….		 65-88

R.A. Watlington, J.M. Morell & J.E. Corredor
Improved Understanding of Oceanic Processes through an Integrated Caribbean
Coastal Ocean Observing System.……………………………………………………………………………….		 89-96

R.L. Hayes & T.J. Goreau
An analysis of satellite-derived sea surface temperature from Caribbean and Atlantic coral reef
sites, 1984-2003.………………………………………………………………………………………………….		 97-118

L.L. Richardson & D.N. Ragoonath
Organic carbon enhances dark survival of the cyanobacterium Geitlerinema sp. isolated from
black band disease of corals.……………………………………………………………………………………….		 119-126

P.V. Susan Tepetlan & D. Aldana
Aranda Macrofauna bentónica asociada a bancos ostrícolas en las lagunas costeras Carmen, Machona y Mecoacán, Tabasco, México.…………………………………………………………………………………….		 127-137

S.C.C. Steiner & J.M. Kerr
Stony corals in Dominica during the 2005 bleaching episode and one year later.……………………………….		 139-148

N.J. Quinn & B.L. Kojis
The recent collapse of a rapid phase-shift reversal on a Jamaican north coast coral reef after the
2005 bleaching event.…………………………………………………………………………………………….		 149-159

C.M. Huijbers, M.G.G. Grol & I. Nagelkerken
Shallow patch reefs as alternative habitats for early juveniles of some mangrove/seagrass-associated fish species in Bermuda.……………………………………………………………………………………………………….		 161-169

P. Miloslavich
The Census of Marine Life in the Caribbean: A Biodiversity Program.………………………………………….		 171-181

L.F. Artigas, E. Otero, R. Paranhos, M.L. Gómez, C. Piccini, M. Costagliola, R. Silva, P. Suárez, V.A. Gallardo, D.U. Hernández-Becerril, A. Chistoserdov, R. Vieira, M. Perez-Cenci, J.F. Ternon, B. Beker, M. Thyssen, H. Dionisi, I. do Rosario Marinho-Jaussaud, A. Gonzalez, C. Hurtado, J.P. Parra, C. Alonso, C. Hozbor, S. Peressutti, R. Negri, C. Espinoza, A. Cardoso, O. Martins, F. Covacevich, C. Berón & G.L. Salerno
Towards a Latin American and Caribbean international census of marine microbes (LACar – ICoMM): overview and discussion on some current research directions.………………………………………………….		 183-214

J.A. Alfonso, J. Azocar, J.J. LaBrecque, B. Garcia, D. Palacios & Z. Benzo
Trace metals in bivalves and seagrass collected from Venezuelan coastal sites.………………………………….		 215-222

J.M. Calnan, T.B. Smith, R.S. Nemeth, E. Kadison & J. Blondeau
Coral disease prevalence and host susceptibility on mid-depth and deep reefs in the United States
Virgin Islands.…………………………………………………………………………………………………….		 223-234

C. del Mónaco, E. Villamizar & S. Narciso
Tasa de depredación de Coralliophila abbreviata (Neogastropoda: Coralliophilidae) sobre algunas especies coralinas del Parque Nacional Morrocoy, Venezuela.…………………………………………………………….		 235-246

J.G. Rodríguez
Pequeños peces crípticos de arrecifes coralinos y áreas adyacentes en el Parque Nacional Morrocoy y Refugio de Fauna de Cuare, Venezuela.…………………………………………………………………………………….		 247-254

E. Villamizar, H. Camisotti, B. Rodríguez, J. Pérez & M. Romero
Impacts of the 2005 Caribbean bleaching event at Archipiélago de Los Roques National Park, Venezuela.…….		 255-270

D.P. Moore, E.H. Williams, Jr., A.A. Mignucci-Giannoni, L. Bunkley-Williams & W.G. Dyer
Successful surgical treatment of spear wounds in a Hawksbill Turtle,
Eretmochelys imbricata (Testudines: Cheloniidae).…………………………………………………………….		 271-276

D.P. Moore, E.H. Williams, Jr., A.A. Mignucci-Giannoni, L. Bunkley-Williams, F.E. Tippett & R.A. Montoya
Acute myocarditis in a West Indian Manatee, Trichechus manatus (Sirenia: Trichechidae), from Puerto Rico.….		 277-283

A.K. Bashirullah, E.H. Williams, Jr. & L. Bunkley-Williams
An anomalous White Mullet, Mugil curema (Perciformes: Mugilidae), with three ovarian lobes found in the Gulf of Cariaco, Venezuela.……………………………………………………………………………………….		 285-288

E.H. Williams, Jr., L. Bunkley-Williams, C.S. Rogers & R.M. Fenner
Color correction of a publication error in the Tan Hamlet and the second occurrence of a Potentially Inheritable Character the Butter Hamlet (Perciformes: Serranidae).………………………………………………………….		 289-292

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