Reefs for the Future - Nova Southeastern University

July 8 (Tue) 3:30–12:30 Room - Palm B
3:30 Sean CONNOLLY*, Maria DORNELAS, Terry HUGHES, David BELLWOOD
Commonness, Rarity, and Biodiversity on Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs
3:45 Maria DORNELAS*, Sean CONNOLLY
Coral Species Abundance Distribution: Patterns of Commonness and Rarity
4:00 Daniel PETTAY*, Todd LAJEUNESSE, Dustin KEMP
The Stability of Clonal Lineages Over Space and Time
4:15 Wolfgang KIESSLING*
Diversity Dynamics of Reefs and Level-Bottom Communities Compared: Paleontological Evidence for Reefs
as Sources of Biodiversity Over the Last 240 Myr
4:30 J. Henrich BRUGGEMANN*, Gustav PAULAY, François MICHONNEAU, Nicolas HUBERT, Mireille M.M. GUILLAUME
Diversity and Diversification in the Southwest Indian Ocean (Program ANR BIOTAS)
4:45 Marjorie REAKA*
Patterns of Diversity, Endemism, Origination and Extinction on Coral Reefs: Stomatopod Crustaceans
5:00 Gustav PAULAY*
Are Echinoderms from Mars? Insights Into Diversification and Biogeography from the “Most Bizarre”
Animal Phylum
5:15 François MICHONNEAU*, Kris NETCHY, John STARMER, Alexander KERR, Gustav PAULAY
New Insights Into the Biodiversity and Evolution of Aspidochirotid Holothurians
5:30 Maria Celia MALAY*
Diversity and Speciation of Coral-Dwelling Barnacles in the Genus Trevathana (Balanomorpha:
Pyrgomatidae): A Case of Host-Race Speciation?
5:45 Orit BARNEAH*, Eitan BEN-DOV, Yehuda BENAYAHU, Itzchak BRICKNER, Ariel KUSHMARO
Molecular Diversity and Specificity of Waminoa Sp. Worms Associated with Corals in the Gulf of Eilat (Red
Sea)
10:00 Juergen HERLER*, Markus DIRNWOEBER, Lucie SCHIEMER, Simone NIEDERMUELLER
Host Specificity, Spatial Niche Diversity and Adaptations of Coral-Associated Gobies in the Northern Red
Sea
10:15 Timothy SWAIN*
Ribosomal RNA Reveals Phylogenetic Conservatism in the Evolution of Host Associations in Caribbean
Symbiotic Zoanthids
10:30 James REIMER*, Frederic SINNIGER, Kiyotaka TAKISHITA
Evolution of the Zoanthid Genus Zoanthus (Hexacorallia: Anthozoa) and Associated Symbiodinium in the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
10:45 Leila LONGO*, Erika SCHLENZ, Maria Cristina ARIAS
Phylogenetical Analysis of Zoanthus (Zoanthidea) Morphotypes from Brazilian Coast
11:00 J. VERON*, L. DEVANTIER, E. TURAK, S. KININMONTH
Coral Geographic: A Progress Report
11:15 Alonso MOHEDANO - NAVARRETE*, Hector REYES-BONILLA, Ramon Andres LOPÉZ-PÉREZ
Species Richness and Morphological Diversity of the Genus Porites in the Pacific Ocean
11:30 Danwei HUANG*, Rudolf MEIER, Peter A. TODD, Hironobu FUKAMI, Loke Ming CHOU
Phylogeny of Faviidae Corals Based on Molecular and Morphological Data
11:45 Ann BUDD*, Jaroslaw STOLARSKI
Reconciling Morphologic and Molecular Data: Corallite Wall and Microstructures of Radial Elements in the
Scleractinian Coral Family Faviidae
12:00 Narinratana KONGJANDTRE*, Mauricio RODRIGUEZ-LANETTY RODRIGUEZ-LANETTY, Tyrone RIDGWAY,
Ove HOEGH-GULDBERG
Resolving the Taxonomy of Favia Corals from Thai Waters Using Morphological and Molecular Data
12:15 Herman WIRSHING*, Andrew BAKER
From Molecular “markers” to Molecular “drivers”: Coral Systematics Using Biomineralization Genes as
Determinants of Skeletal Morphology
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