Browsing by Author "Chadwick, Nanette"

The periodicity and timing of otolith growth rings in red snapper was examined through a mark-and-recapture study and with known-age, hatchery-reared fish. In 2005 through 2008, red snapper (n = 265) were caught hook-and-line, ...

The successful management of species requires information on their patterns of distribution, abundance, and population dynamics. Demographic studies are important for gauging how environmental conditions impact populations; ...

Ecotourism often is promoted as an ecologically-friendly use of natural resources, however if not managed carefully, can cause negative impacts to ecosystems. In the Florida Keys, minimal government involvement in regulating ...

Phenotypically plastic life history strategies have important implications for how species colonize local habitats and disperse to distant environments, yet few data exist for tropical sea anemones. Here, I use field and ...

Increasing contact between humans and nature can disturb essential processes within ecosystems. Chronic anthropogenic disturbances on coral reefs may shift benthic community composition leading to loss of reef growth and ...

Irradiance is an abiotic factor that strongly affects the metabolism of endosymbiotic Symbiodinium within photosynthetic cnidarians such as rose tip sea anemones Condylactis gigantea. Fluctuations in the intensity of ...

Cleaning symbioses may strongly impact the diversity of coral reef fishes, but little is known about the dynamics of mutualistic networks involving cleaner shrimps that form obligate associations with sea anemones. I used ...

Although anemonefishes and their giant sea anemone hosts became known to the western world in the late nineteenth century, and the first studies exploring these associations were published almost one hundred years ago, to ...