BAHAMAS FINAL EXAM WITH
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED
100% CORRECT 2025 UPDATE.
West and Salm, 2003 - ANS Climate change greatest threat to coral mortality.
Green and Bruckner, 2000 - ANS Disease in corals linked to human impact.
Moberg, 1999 - ANS Only a few of goods and services offered by reefs have been utilised.
Buddemeier and Fautin, 1993 - ANS Acute bleaching can be adaptive, allows host to be
repopulated with different partner.
Selig and Bruno, 2010 - ANS Benefits of MPAs increase with number of years established.
Mumby et al, 2006 - ANS Since mass death of sea urchins, parrot fish is now dominant grazer on
Caribbean reefs.
Albins and Hixon, 2008 - ANS Lion fish caused 75% reduction in recruitment of native fishes
over 5 weeks.
Raymonds et al, 2014 - ANS Spatial competition for shelter between lion fish and Nassau
grouper.
Marsh-Hunkin, 2013 - ANS Coral reef gobies could discriminate between native and invasive
predators, and changed anti predator response accordingly.
Cote et al, 2014 - ANS Shifts in behaviour of hunted lion fish have implications for culling as a
control mechanism.
Tamburello and Cote, 2014 - ANS Lion fish spread greater than previous estimations.
Green et al, 2012 - ANS Increase in lion fish coincided with 65% decline in their prey species in
just 2 years.
Mumby et al, 2003 - ANS Mangroves are the world's most threatened tropical ecosystems, with
global loss exceeding 35%.
Donato et al, 2011 - ANS Mangrove deforestation generates 10% of emissions from
deforestation globally, despite accounting for 0.7% of tropical forest area.
Koch and Madden, 2001 - ANS Seagrasses nearest mangrove fringe had the greatest nutrient
availability among sites.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED
100% CORRECT 2025 UPDATE.
West and Salm, 2003 - ANS Climate change greatest threat to coral mortality.
Green and Bruckner, 2000 - ANS Disease in corals linked to human impact.
Moberg, 1999 - ANS Only a few of goods and services offered by reefs have been utilised.
Buddemeier and Fautin, 1993 - ANS Acute bleaching can be adaptive, allows host to be
repopulated with different partner.
Selig and Bruno, 2010 - ANS Benefits of MPAs increase with number of years established.
Mumby et al, 2006 - ANS Since mass death of sea urchins, parrot fish is now dominant grazer on
Caribbean reefs.
Albins and Hixon, 2008 - ANS Lion fish caused 75% reduction in recruitment of native fishes
over 5 weeks.
Raymonds et al, 2014 - ANS Spatial competition for shelter between lion fish and Nassau
grouper.
Marsh-Hunkin, 2013 - ANS Coral reef gobies could discriminate between native and invasive
predators, and changed anti predator response accordingly.
Cote et al, 2014 - ANS Shifts in behaviour of hunted lion fish have implications for culling as a
control mechanism.
Tamburello and Cote, 2014 - ANS Lion fish spread greater than previous estimations.
Green et al, 2012 - ANS Increase in lion fish coincided with 65% decline in their prey species in
just 2 years.
Mumby et al, 2003 - ANS Mangroves are the world's most threatened tropical ecosystems, with
global loss exceeding 35%.
Donato et al, 2011 - ANS Mangrove deforestation generates 10% of emissions from
deforestation globally, despite accounting for 0.7% of tropical forest area.
Koch and Madden, 2001 - ANS Seagrasses nearest mangrove fringe had the greatest nutrient
availability among sites.
