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In the News: Red Mangroves in Peril in Abaco’s Marls?

Here is a short write-up featured in Coastal Angler magazine about the Red Mangrove die-off in the Marls.

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Mangroves are beautiful, and so is this video

A brief video featuring the beauty of and spreading the word about the importance of mangrove forests. All was shot in Bimini, and it’s quite good.

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Friends Field Course Fun!

Despite the visit from our friend Tropical Storm Arthur, the students enrolled in a conservation based summer course at Friends were excited to get out and snorkel Snake Cay during a short rain break....

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Findings from Checkered Puffer Fish Stomachs

The Checkered Puffer Fish experiment Ryann and I have been working on is going fairly well so far.  We have collected 15 puffer fish stomachs from Sandy Point, leaving us with one more site, Camp...

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Who is Eating the Mangrove Periwinkles?

Previously I have posted about Checkered Puffers (see here and here). We believe they may consume Mangrove Periwinkles so we tethered snails to mangrove prop roots in Sandy Point yesterday. After only...

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A Quick Update on The Marls Mangrove Die-Off

Below are several photos depicting what we’ve found on our recent sampling trips to The Marls. The first two show an insect that we’ve seen several times now. We are still working on identifying it but...

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Checkered Puffer Eats a Mangrove Periwinkle

Check out this footage of a Checkered Puffer consuming a Mangrove Periwinkle snail that was tethered to a prop root!

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Interest in Mangrove Periwinkles Grows

Seeing Checkered Puffer Fish eat Mangrove Periwinkle snails is pretty impressive, but they are not the only fish interested in these snails. Here is a clip of a Schoolmaster showing an interest in the...

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Thoughts on the Treasure Sands Dredging

I have been asked by a number of people to comment on the Treasure Sands dredging project near Treasure Cay. The following thoughts are based on my observations and experience in similar systems....

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Sea Turtle Grazing Project

FIU graduate student Elizabeth Whitman asked me to post this.  I am really interested as there are SO many green turtles these days.  I predict we will much taller seagrass in the turtle exclosures...

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Jellyfish, Mosquitofish, and Snapper

Three new papers from former lab members.  A quick summary of each to follow…. Upside-down jellyfish paper – Betsy Stoner, now a post-doc at the University of Miami, conducted an expansive experiment...

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Have you seen Red Mangrove leaves with lesions like this?

We have posted before about the die-off of mangroves in the Marls on Abaco (see here and here), and now we are wondering if there are mangrove die-off areas across The Bahamas. We are asking for your...

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Fish Genitalia Back in the News

The gonopodium again rears its head (that was a rather bad pun indeed).  Press release here and the paper pdf here. And here is another recent paper discussing how wetland fragmentation also affects...

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New Mangrove Patches in The Marls Found with Leaf Lesions

After a quick field survey in The Marls, we found several new Red Mangrove patches (yellow stars on the map) that had the same leaf lesions previously found at a die-off site (red star on the map).We...

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Hermaphrodites in the mangroves

I’ve been mucking around in mangrove swamps here on Abaco for the last five years. But just the other day I encountered a new critter, the Mangrove rivulus (Rivulus marmoratus), and what an interesting...

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Fungi from The Marls

Here are some preliminary photos of  fungal isolations from mangrove leaves from The Marls. We are working on identifying and generating pure cultures of these samples, but there is certainly fungi...

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Prop Scar Research

An update from FIU graduate student Jenn Sweatman.  Thanks Jenn! In my post last September, I discussed a project I was conducting in the seagrass beds around Abaco.  The primary focus of the project...

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NCSU Features Fish Pee Research

Press release here.

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Local Perspective on Marine Resource Regulation

A new paper from a human dimensions study on Andros.  Here is the Abstract: Fisheries resources in the Caribbean suffer intense pressure from overharvesting. Some of the most valuable fisheries in The...

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Sponge-Seagrass Paper Featured

Stephanie Archer and Betsy Stoner’s recent sponge-seagrass paper featured over at Ocean Bites.  A nice feature story.

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