There is increasing recognition that habitats should be managed as part of fisheries
management. It is generally assumed that amount of suitable habitat is linked to production …

The simultaneous effects of grazing and nutrient enrichment on macroalgal communities
were experimentally investigated using plastic mesh enclosure/exclosure cages along a …

The queen conch (Aliger gigas) is an important fishery resource species in the Caribbean
region, increasingly threatened by overharvest. The species' life history is characterized by …

Our work in the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Haiti, and Jamaica has revealed significant
patterning in apparently unretouched molluscan shell objects. In the present paper we …

The queen conch, Aliger gigas, is an endemic and iconic marine gastropod of the Wider
Caribbean region that has been harvested for thousands of years. Conch are slow-moving …

The planktotrophic larvae of the gastropod Strombus gigas Linnaeus are metamorphically
competent for 6 days, at which time they must make contact with a benthic cue or lose the …

The relatlve roles of habltat quallty and predation were examined to test the hypothes~ s that
surv~ vorshlp In a manne gastropod, Strombus glgas, IS enhanced by livlng In aggregat …

The roles of nutrition, predation, and habitat choice were tested as mechanisms for sha**
natural distribution of newly settled queen conch in seagrass Thalassia testudinum …

Juvenile queen conch (Strombus gigas L.) occur in discrete aggregations within seemingly
uniform seagrass beds throughout the Exuma Cays, Bahamas, suggesting that the …

A 10 mo field experiment in seagrass meadows of the Exuma Cays, Bahamas, indicated that
grazing by queen conch Strombus gigas L. had an important effect on the abundance of …