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Final Report Biological Monitoring Of The Hollywood-Hallandale Beach Renourishment, Richard Dodge, Walter Goldberg, Charles Messing, Steven C. Hess
Final Report Biological Monitoring Of The Hollywood-Hallandale Beach Renourishment, Richard Dodge, Walter Goldberg, Charles Messing, Steven C. Hess
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports
A four-year study was undertaken to survey Broward County, Florida (southeast Florida) coral communities and infaunal marine biota in relation to possible effects from the Hollywood- Hallandale Beach renourishment project. Beach restoration involves dredging sand from offshore deposits and placing it on eroded beaches, activities which may cause sedimentation and turbidity. Coral reefs were assessed using transect and quadrat surveys at a total of 15 stations, unevenly distributed between dredging impact (n=9) and control (n=6) areas to characterize and quantify populations of sponges, gorgonians, scleractinian corals, as well as other less well represented groups. In addition, the infauna of sand …
Port Everglades Macroinvertebrate Monitoring: Monitoring Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages At The Southport Turning Basin And Adjacent Areas Of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area: January 1995, Charles G. Messing, Richard E. Dodge
Port Everglades Macroinvertebrate Monitoring: Monitoring Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages At The Southport Turning Basin And Adjacent Areas Of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area: January 1995, Charles G. Messing, Richard E. Dodge
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports
This report documents the January 1995 monitoring of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Port Everglades Southport turning basin vicinity and adjacent areas of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area. This is the eighth monitoring effort of the series carried out by Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center. Collections were made between 13 and 25 January 1995.
A Preliminary Study Of Fish Recruitment To "Reefball"Artificial Reefs In Shallow And Deep Water, Richard E. Spieler
A Preliminary Study Of Fish Recruitment To "Reefball"Artificial Reefs In Shallow And Deep Water, Richard E. Spieler
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports
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Structure Of Africa's Southernmost Coral Communities, Bernhard Riegl, Michael H. Schleyer, P. J. Cook, G. M. Branch
Structure Of Africa's Southernmost Coral Communities, Bernhard Riegl, Michael H. Schleyer, P. J. Cook, G. M. Branch
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
The structure of Africa's southernmost coral communities, which grow on submerged fossil dune and beachrock systems and do not form true coral reefs, was quantitatively investigated by means of line transects and phototransects. None of the typical geomorphological reef-zones such as lagoons, reef crests or reef slopes were developed. A uniform community structure, differentiated only into two major community-types with three subcommunities, was found, Shallow reefs were dominated by alcyonaceans and differed from scleractinian dominated deep reefs. A high proportion of alcyonaceans was found in shallow communities (40–60%). Subcommunities, which were found on most reefs, were an alcyonacean dominated "reef-top" …
Port Everglades Macroinvertebrate Monitoring: Monitoring Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages At The Southport Turning Basin And Adjacent Areas Of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area: August 1994 [Interim Report], Charles G. Messing, Richard E. Dodge
Port Everglades Macroinvertebrate Monitoring: Monitoring Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages At The Southport Turning Basin And Adjacent Areas Of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area: August 1994 [Interim Report], Charles G. Messing, Richard E. Dodge
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports
This report documents the August 1994 monitoring of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Port Everglades Southport turning basin vicinity and adjacent areas of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area. This is the seventh monitoring effort of the series carried out by Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center. Grab samples were taken chiefly during the first two weeks of August. Hand collections and most crab survey stations were delayed until the first half of September (with three crab stations taken on 5 October). This is an interim report. Nemertine and annelid worms and a few groups of crustaceans have not yet been …
Evaluation Of A Novel Material For Recycling Tires Into Artificial Reefs - Final Report, Richard E. Spieler
Evaluation Of A Novel Material For Recycling Tires Into Artificial Reefs - Final Report, Richard E. Spieler
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports
The purpose of this study was to evaluate, from a biological perspective, a tire-concrete aggregate which uses tire shreds mixed into concrete, as a suitable reef building material. Evaluation consisted of comparing the biological assemblages associated with tire-aggregate reefs to standard gravel-concrete reefs of the same design. Four artificial reefs of concrete, tetrahedron modules were placed off Fort Lauderdale, Florida in seven meters of water, two reefs of each type of aggregate. Each reef contains 25 small (1m/side) and 25 large (1.3m/side) tetrahedrons stacked in a random configuration. The reefs were monitored at monthly, or less, intervals for 28 months. …
Tissue Damage In Scleractinian And Alcyonacean Corals Due To Experimental Exposure To Sedimentation, Bernhard Riegl, Jonathan P. Bloomer
Tissue Damage In Scleractinian And Alcyonacean Corals Due To Experimental Exposure To Sedimentation, Bernhard Riegl, Jonathan P. Bloomer
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures
Four South African scleractinian corals (Favia favus, Favites pentagona, Platygyra daedalea and Gyrosmilia interrupta) and four alcyonacean corals (Lobophytum depressum, Lobophytum venustum, Sinularia dura and Sinularia leptoclados) were experimentally exposed to high sedimentation conditions in the laboratory during a period of six weeks. Experimental sedimentation corresponded to the highest measured sedimentation levels on South African coral reefs, being 200 mg cm-2h-l. Corals were monitored for tissue necroses and bleaching during the course of the experiment and histological sections were prepared after the termination of the experiment. During the experiment, tissue necroses appeared earlier and more frequently in alcyonacea than in …
Is Coral Community Structure Linked To Damage Susceptibility? A Case Study From South Africa, Bernhard Riegl, Peter A. Cook
Is Coral Community Structure Linked To Damage Susceptibility? A Case Study From South Africa, Bernhard Riegl, Peter A. Cook
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures
Africa's southernmost coral communities are situated in northern Natal, South Africa (27°50' S), within the Maputaland and St. Lucia Marine Reserves. Growing concern about the possible impact of recreational acti vities on the health of the coral ecosystem prompted the present study on the structure and health of the reefs. Coral community studies by means of line transects identified three basic coral community types, which correlated with the geomorphology of the sandstone outcrops on which corals grew. 1) Fossil dunes were dominated by alcyonacea in depths between 8 and 24 m. 2) Flat outcrops between 18 and 24 m depth …
Taphonomy Of Isocrinid Stalks: Influence Of Decay And Autotomy, Tomasz K. Baumiller, Ghislaine Llewellyn, Charles G. Messing, William I. Ausich
Taphonomy Of Isocrinid Stalks: Influence Of Decay And Autotomy, Tomasz K. Baumiller, Ghislaine Llewellyn, Charles G. Messing, William I. Ausich
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Stalks of isocrinid crinoids are differentiated into cirri-bearing columnals (nodals) and columnals lacking cirri (internodals). This skeletal differentiation allowed us to test whether stalk fragmentation is random or whether it occurs preferentially at a specific articulation. Our analyses indicate that the patterns of fragmentation in multicolumnal segments of extant isocrinids collected by submersible, by dredging, and in sediment samples, as well as those found as fossils, are nonrandom. The preferred plane of fragmentation corresponds to the synostosis, the articulation between a nodal and the internodal distal to it. In isocrinids this articulation has a characteristic morphology and is the site …