[Coral-List] correction on mushroom corals in Jamaica

[John McManus]

This highlights the fact that we must stop maintaining Indo-Pacific corals,
fish and other organisms anywhere near the Caribbean and Atlantic (and
vice-versa). Even when 'safety' measures are in place, how good will they be
in a major hurricane?

Otherwise, the lionfish invasion will be only the beginning.


John

John W. McManus, PhD
Director, National Center for Coral Reef Research (NCORE)
Professor, Marine Biology and Fisheries
Coral Reef Ecology and Management Lab (CREM Lab)
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS)
University of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, 33149
jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu      http://ncore.rsmas.miami.edu/
 Phone: 305-421-4814   

  "If I cannot build it, I do not understand it."
              --Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate



-----Original Message-----
From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
[mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Douglas Fenner
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:50 PM
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: [Coral-List] correction on mushroom corals in Jamaica

I would like to correct something I wrote about mushroom corals introduced
to 
Jamaica.  The mushroom corals were not deliberately introduced to the reef.

They were in a tank in the lab, and someone moved the outflow from the tank
so 
it went into the ocean, and larvae must have flowed out onto the reef and 
settled.      Doug

 Douglas Fenner, Ph.D.
Coral Reef Monitoring Ecologist
Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources
American Samoa



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"New government figures for the global climate show that 2010 was the
wettest 
year in the historical record, and it tied 2005 as the hottest year since 
record-keeping began in 1880.  It was the 34th year running that global 
temperatures have been above the 20th-century average; the last
below-average 
year was 1976. The new figures show that 9 of the 10 warmest years on record

have occurred since the beginning of 2001." 



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/science/earth/13climate.html?src=me&ref=wo
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