Damage to corals
Bleaching by type, extent, species affected, locations on reef
Home ranges and site specificity
Blue headed wrasse, Urchins, Chitons, Cling crabs
Reproductive behavior -- Sgt. Majors
Mating, spawning, guarding and tending eggs
Time energy budgets -- (e.g. Four-eyed butterfly fish)
Feeding and movement patterns, measurement of oxygen consumption
Damselfish territoriality
Naturalistic observation or manipulation (model bottle)
Types of territories in varying sites on reef
Reactions to herbivores vs. carnivores
Feeding Energetics
Enclosures with algae covered coral, algivores--damselfish and urchins, oxygen consumption measurements
Production/Respiration ratios
A model of reef "behavior" in the upside-down jellyfish -- daytime production and night-time respiration
Opportunistic feeding behavior
Urchins (carnivores) and Algae (herbivores) placed in various reef locations
Anemone feeding -- using giant Caribbean anemone and various foods
Food preferences, rates of ingestion, rates of digestion
Symbionts in anemones/shrimp
Types, behavior, dislocation and re-orientation experiments
Sponge feeding
Types of sponges eaten, who is eating them, collect spicules from sponges (eaten and non-eating types) for later analysis
Cleaner stations
Locations, types of organisms (shrimp and/or fish) doing cleaning, types of fish being cleaned, solicitation behaviors, cleaning behavior
Schooling behavior
Species composition (homospecific and heterospecific), behavior of schools, locations of schools, reaction to predators
Coral competition
Random quadrat method, nearest neighbor analysis of adjacencies, observation of actual damage
Coral morphology
Relation to depth, light levels, types of corals capable of morphological plasticity, measurement of surface area, abundance at various depths
Sediment on the reef
Measurement of sedimentation types and levels at various locations, observation of sediment processors (sea cucumbers, parrot fish), reactions of various corals to sedimentation (naturalistic observation and manipulation)
