Shallow-water scleractinian corals of Ascension Island, Central South Atlantic

Inter- and Intra-beach Thermal Variation for Green Turtle Nests on Ascension Island, South Atlantic

Scleractinian Corals of Kuwait

A survey was made of the coral reefs of Kuwait to compile a species list of scleractinian corals. Twenty-eight hermatypic and six ahermatypic coral species are listed in systematic order, and a brief description is provided for each. A new species of Acropora is described. The Kuwait fauna is a small subset of the over 500 Indo-Pacific species. Several species show a higher degree of intraspeci...

Microplastic ingestion by scleractinian corals

Microplastics (i.e. plastic fragments <5 mm in diameter) are a widespread form of contamination in marine ecosystems around the globe (Moore 2008). Coastal ecosystems, such as inshore coral reefs, are likely to be particularly heavily impacted by microplastics because these contaminants often enter the marine environment through fragmentation of larger plastic items from terrestrial sources (Th...

Description of Alpheus cedrici sp. n., a strikingly coloured snapping shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) from Ascension Island, central Atlantic Ocean

Alpheus cedricisp. n. is described based on two specimens collected under rocks while scuba diving off the coast of Ascension Island, central Atlantic Ocean. The new species belongs to the Alpheus macrocheles (Hailstone, 1835) species complex and appears to be most closely related to the eastern-central Atlantic Alpheus macrocheles, the western Atlantic Alpheus amblyonyx Chace, 1972, and the ea...

A New Subfossil Night Heron and a New Genus for the Extinct Rail from Ascension Island, Central Tropical Atlantic Ocean

Ascension (Figs. 1, 2) is a recent volcanic island some 10 km in diameter lying at 07°57'S 14°22'W in the central tropical Atlantic Ocean 350 nautical miles south of the Equator. When discovered in 1501 it had a poor flora and terrestrial fauna, but many breeding seabirds presumably feeding along the equatorial current system (Bourne & Simmons 2001). The birds' destruction may have begun when B...