Electronic Supplemental Material: Comprehensive list of MCE studies by location
Locations
MCE Studies
Atlantic
Bermuda
North Carolina shelf
Florida shelf
Bahamas
Texas-Louisiana
shelf
Belize
Cayman Islands
Jamaica
Puerto Rico and U.S.
Virgin Islands
Netherland Antilles
(Curacao)
Barbados
Brazil
Canary Islands
Malta
Indo-Pacific
Northern Red Sea
India
Maldives
Chagos Islands
Reunion Island
Japan & Ryuku
Islands
Caroline Islands
(Palau)
Marshall Islands
(Enewetak)
Johnston Atoll
Hawaiian Islands
Fricke and Meischner 1985; Searles and Schneider 1987; Peckol and Ramus 1992;
Venn et al. 2009
Schneider and Searles 1973; Searles and Schneider 1980; Peckol and Ramus 1988;
Macintyre 2003
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
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
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
Ginsburg and James 1973; Colin 1974; James and Ginsburg 1979
Lukens 1981
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
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
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
Macintyre et al. 1991
Collette and Rützler 1977; Rocha 2003; Feitoza et al. 2005
Haroun et al. 1993; Sanson et al. 2002
Larkum et al. 1967; Drew 1969
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
Kerkar 2003
Gardiner 1903
Dinesen 1977; Sheppard 1980, 1981
Bouchon 1981
Yamazato 1972; Kajimura 1987
Pyle 2000; Wolanski et al. 2004; Pyle et al. 2008
Wells 1954; Gilmartin 1960; Colin 1986; Colin et al. 1986; Hillis-Colinvaux 1986a,
1986b; Thresher and Colin 1986
Agegian and Abbott 1985; Keating 1985; Maragos and Jokiel 1986
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
Great Barrier Reef
Cook Islands
Society Islands
Fiji
Vanatu
Galapagos Islands
Earle and Pyle 1997; Coppejans and Millar 2000; Pyle 2000
Chalker et al. 1983; Drew and Abel 1988; Wolanski et al. 1988; Drew 2001; Cappo et
al. 2007
Pyle and Randall 1992; Pyle 2000
Kühlmann 1983
Smith-Vanis 2005; Pyle et al. 2008
Pyle et al. 2008
Graham et al. 2007
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