Abstract: The Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus, hereafter manatee), inhabiting Puerto Rico’s coastal waters, is a subspecies of the endangered West Indian manatee (Federal Register, July 22, 1985. Vol. 50(140):29900-29909). Habitat...
This is a report on the results of the National Wetland Inventory survey of Maine. It includes explaination of methodology and graphs of wetland information by county.
Reef fish called Chromis viridis (blue-green chromis) and Chromis margaritifer (bicolor chromis) swim among the staghorn coral (Acropora acuminata) at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific.
An underwater shot of a reef at Tern Island in Kanemiloha'i/French Frigate Shoals on the Hawaiian Island National Wildlife Refuge. The extensive coral reefs found in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument - truly the rainforests of the...
Divers happened upon 15 white-tipped reef sharks sleeping next to the northwest seawall, where there are usually only one to three white-tips indicating that it may have been mating season for the sharks. The sharks were photographed in...
Marine ecology; Climate change; Climate effects; Podcast; Public Lecture;
Randy Olson was a professor of marine biology at the University of New Hampshire. Despite his Harvard Ph.D., four years of post-doctoral research in Australia and Florida, and years of diving around the world from the Great Barrier Reef to...
Abstract: Maritime forests dominated by broadleaved evergreen trees and shrubs occur in a discontinuous narrow band along the barrier islands and on the adjacent mainland from North Carolina to Florida. The flora and fauna of maritime forests...
