US Coral Reefs in the Line and Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean: History, Geology, Oceanography, and Biology

Maragos, James E.; Miller, Jacquelin N.; Gove, Jamison M.; Martini, Edward De; Friedlander, Alan M.; Godwin, Scott; Musburger, Craig; Timmers, Molly A.; Tsuda, Roy T.; Vroom, Peter S.; Flint, Elizabeth; Lundblad, Emily; Weiss, Jonathan; Ayotte, Paula; Sala, Enric; Sandin, Stuart A.; McTee, Sarah; Wass, Todd; Siciliano, Daria; Brainard, Russell E.; Obura, David; Ferguson, Scott K.; Mundy, Bruce C.

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“…Both were listed by Bryan (1953), but the latter is not included here among Hawaiian atolls (Table A.18). French Frigate Shoals (328) is an atoll reef and was not listed by Bryan. In the central Pacific, Johnston (329) is an atypical atoll structure with an emergent reef on the leeward side, possibly due to tilting (Maragos et al, 2008a). It was formed during World War II by dredging (Lobel and Lobel, 2008).…”

Section: Indian Ocean 56 Atollsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Atolls of the World: Revisiting the Original Checklist

Goldberg¹

2016

Atoll Research Bulletin

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Section: Indian Ocean 56 Atollsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It was formed during World War II by dredging (Lobel and Lobel, 2008). Kingman (330) is an atoll reef 5-7 m below surface on the east and 10-15 m to the west (Maragos et al, 2008a;Gardner et al, 2014).…”

Section: Indian Ocean 56 Atollsmentioning

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Atolls of the World: Revisiting the Original Checklist

Goldberg¹

2016

Atoll Research Bulletin

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“…The three eastern lagoons are shallow reef flats. Reefs in the lagoons were destroyed directly by human modification of the atoll (Keating, 1992; in Maragos et al, 2008.). With the exceptions of the biologically rich eastern two pools, corals, crustose coralline algae, and other lagoonal species are rare or absent from the highly altered lagoons of Palmyra Atoll .…”

Section: North-south Differences (Howland Baker and Jarvis Vs Palmmentioning

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“…Blennies such as O. r. obliquus are associated with fouling communities and can be transported to boat harbors such as those of Oahu and Palmyra by ship traffic (Mundy, 2005;Randall, 2007; criterion 3). The western lagoon at Palmyra Atoll, the only location in the Line or Phoenix Islands where O. r. obliquus has been found, was dredged into a military harbor in World War II, and was a favorite stopping point for yachts sailing across the Pacific (Grigg et al, 1988;Keating, 1992;Maragos, 1997;Maragos et al, 2008;criterion 5). The species has a disjunct distribution, with no collections eastward of the Marianas, Yap, Palau, Vanuatu, Fiji, or Samoa except those from harbors of Palmyra and O`ahu (criteria 6 and 7).…”

Section: Introduced Speciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Inshore Fishes of Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef

Mundy¹,

Wass²,

DeMartini³

et al. 2010

Atoll Research Bulletin

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A list is given of shore fishes known from Howland and Baker Islands, outliers of the Phoenix Islands group, and Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef in the Line Islands group. The list was compiled from literature sources, museum collection databases, and surveys conducted in 2000-2008 by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center's Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED). A total of 506 shore-fish species and 27 epipelagic species were recorded from the five islands. Of the shore-fish species, 41 (8.1%) were first noted in our CRED surveys. Numbers for the individual islands are: Howland Island-328 species of which 166 (50.8%) are first records from CRED sampling; Baker Island-268 species with 188 (70.1%) as new CRED records; Jarvis Island-274 species with 176 (64.2%) as new CRED records; Palmyra Atoll-395 species with 113 (28.6%) as new CRED records; and Kingman Reef-270 species with 212 (78.5%) as new CRED records. Fifteen additional species whose identifications are in need of verification were reported in our surveys or previous efforts. An additional 16 are considered suspect identifications of species that probably do not occur at the Line or Phoenix Islands. Differences in the species composition of the five islands are discussed in the context of habitat diversity, historic sampling effort, and regional oceanography. The evolution of shore-fish species found at these central Pacific islands is reviewed in the context of phylogeographic information, geology of Pacific islands, and regional oceanography. It is argued that oceanography and dispersal have played a larger role than geologic adjacencies in the evolution of central Pacific oceanic island fishes. Knowledge of the fish fauna of the central equatorial Pacific remains incomplete, in part, because of limited sampling of small, nocturnal, or otherwise cryptic species. These five islands are

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Thermodynamics and hydrodynamics in an atoll reef system and their influence on coral cover

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We present results of the thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of an atoll system and their effect on coral cover based on field measurements from 2012 to 2014 on Palmyra Atoll in the central Pacific. We found that spatial variations in coral cover were correlated with temperature variations on time scales of days to weeks. Shallow terrace and backreef sites with high coral cover (> 50%) had a highly variable temperature distributions, but their average weekly temperature distributions were lower and similar to offshore waters. The mechanism for maintaining this low weekly temperature was mean advection, which varied on a weekly timescale in response to wave forcing. Tides were also important in driving flow on the atoll, but their contribution to the net transport of heat was not significant. Wind and regional forcing were generally not important in driving flow inside the atoll. Buoyancy‐driven flows were important within the lagoons, and in driving cross‐shore exchange on forereef environments. The physical factors favoring high coral cover percentage varied according to the different prevailing hydrodynamic regimes: low temperatures in backreef habitats, short travel times in lagoon habitats (days since entering the reef system), and lower wave stress on forereef habitats. In light of future warming from climate change, local areas of reefs which maintain lower temperatures through wave‐driven mean flows will have the best likelihood of promoting coral survival.

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US Coral Reefs in the Line and Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean: History, Geology, Oceanography, and Biology

Cited by 32 publications

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Atolls of the World: Revisiting the Original Checklist

Atolls of the World: Revisiting the Original Checklist

Inshore Fishes of Howland Island, Baker Island, Jarvis Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef

Thermodynamics and hydrodynamics in an atoll reef system and their influence on coral cover

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