Electronic Supplemental Material: Comprehensive List of MCE Studies by Location

Electronic Supplemental Material: Comprehensive list of MCE studies by location

Locations / MCE Studies
Atlantic
Bermuda / Fricke and Meischner 1985; Searles and Schneider 1987; Peckol and Ramus 1992; Venn et al. 2009
North Carolina shelf / Schneider and Searles 1973; Searles and Schneider 1980; Peckol and Ramus 1988; Macintyre 2003
Florida shelf / Cheney and Dyer 1974; Reed 1980,1981,2006; Hanisak and Blair 1988;Phillips et al. 1990; Hanisak 2001; Jarrett et al. 2005; Collier et al. 2008; Leichter et al. 2008
Bahamas / Busby et al. 1966; Porter 1973; Colin 1976; Lukens 1981; Jensen et al. 1985; Reed 1985; Littler et al. 1985, 1986, 1991; Blair and Norris 1988; Norris and Olsen 1991; Freile et al. 1995; Avery and Liddell 1997; Liddell et al. 1997; Reed and Pomponi 1997; Avery 1998; Liddell and Avery 2000; Aponte and Ballantine 2001; Pomponi et al. 2001
Texas-Louisiana shelf / Bright et al. 1984; Rezak et al. 1985, 1990; Dennis and Bright 1988; Rabalais 1990; Fredericq et al. 2000; Schmahl and Hickerson 2006; Vize 2006; Hickerson et al. 2008
Cuba / Zlatarski and Estalella 1982
Belize / Ginsburg and James 1973; Colin 1974; James and Ginsburg 1979
Cayman Islands / Lukens 1981
Jamaica / Goreau and Wells 1967; Land and Goreau 1970; Goreau and Goreau 1973; Hartman 1973; Kinzie 1973; Colin 1974; Lang 1974; Goreau and Land 1974; Lang et al. 1975;Dustan 1979, 1982; Liddell and Ohlhorst 1988; Ohlhorst and Liddell 1988; Itzkowitz et al. 1991; Leichter and Genovese 2006
Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands / Kühlmann 1983; Colin and Clavijo 1988; Rodriguez-Jerez 2004; Singh et al. 2004; Nemeth 2005; Armstrong et al. 2006; Menza et al. 2007; García-Sais et al. 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008
Netherland Antilles (Curacao) / Van den Hoek et al. 1978; De Ruyter Van Steveninck and Breeman 1987; Bak and Nieuwland 1995; Vermeij and Bak 2002, 2003; Vermeij et al. 2003; Bak et al. 2005; Frade et al. 2008a, 2008b; Nugues and Bak 2008
Barbados / Macintyre et al. 1991
Brazil / Collette and Rützler 1977; Rocha 2003; Feitoza et al. 2005
Canary Islands / Haroun et al. 1993; Sanson et al. 2002
Malta / Larkum et al. 1967; Drew 1969
Indo-Pacific
Northern Red Sea / Fricke and Hottinger 1983; Fricke and Schuhmacher 1983; Kühlmann 1983; Fricke and Knauer 1986; Schlichter et al. 1986, 1994, 1997; Fricke et al. 1987; Schlichter and Fricke 1991; Kaiser et al. 1993; Mass et al. 2007; Brokovich 2008; Brokovich et al. 2008; Alamaru et al. 2009; Einbinder et al. 2009
India / Kerkar 2003
Maldives / Gardiner 1903
Chagos Islands / Dinesen 1977; Sheppard 1980, 1981
Reunion Island / Bouchon 1981
JapanRyuku Islands / Yamazato 1972; Kajimura 1987
Caroline Islands (Palau) / Pyle 2000; Wolanski et al. 2004; Pyle et al. 2008
Marshall Islands (Enewetak) / Wells 1954; Gilmartin 1960; Colin 1986; Colin et al. 1986; Hillis-Colinvaux 1986a, 1986b; Thresher and Colin 1986
Johnston Atoll / Agegian and Abbott 1985; Keating 1985; Maragos and Jokiel 1986
Hawaiian Islands / Vaughan 1907; Grigg 1965, 2001, 2006; Doty et al. 1974; Agegian and Abbott 1985; Parrish and Boland 2004; Kahng and Grigg 2005; Kahng and Maragos 2006; Kahng and Kelley 2007; Chan et al. 2009
Papua New Guinea / Earle and Pyle 1997; Coppejans and Millar 2000; Pyle 2000
Great Barrier Reef / Chalker et al. 1983; Drew and Abel 1988; Wolanski et al. 1988; Drew 2001; Cappo et al. 2007
Cook Islands / Pyle and Randall 1992; Pyle 2000
Society Islands / Kühlmann 1983
Fiji / Smith-Vanis 2005; Pyle et al. 2008
Vanatu / Pyle et al. 2008
Galapagos Islands / Graham et al. 2007

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