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MARINE INVERTEBRATE REPORTS

2005

• Paull, K. Diadema abundance and diversity (Dissertation in preparation).

• Hale, R. Adundance, associations and distribution of Spirobranchius and Sabellastrea (Dissertation in preparation).

• Hervas-Avila, S. Sea Urchins: a dichotomy of a sustainable food source and an ecological threat (Dissertation in preparation).

• Floyd, A. Shell utilisation by hermit crabs and associated epibionts (Dissertation in preparation).

2004

• Bell, J. & Smith, D. (2004) Ecology of sponges (Porifera) in the Wakatobi region, south-east Sulawesi, Indonesia: richness and abundance. Journal of Molecular Biology.  84. 4646/1-11.

• Weis, J. & Weis, P. (2004) Behavior of four species of fiddler crabs, genus Uca, in South-east Sulawesi. Hydrobiologia 523- 47 - 58

• Bell, J. J. and Smith, D. (2004). Ecology of sponges (Porifera) in the Wakatobi region, south-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia: richness and abundance J. Mar. Biol. Ass. UK 84, 4646/1 - 11.

• Crosthwaite-Eyre, E. 2004. Distribution, abundance and habitat selection by Coconut crab University of Oxford
• Grilli, M. 2004. Visual ecology of fiddler and sentinel crabs University of Portsmouth
• Hunt, G. 2004. Ecological relationship between mud skippers and fiddler crabs University of Lancaster

2003

• De Grave, S. & Moosa, M.K. (In Press) A new species of the enigmatic shrimp genus Pseudocheles (Decapoda: Bresiliidae) from Sulawesi (Indonesia) with the designation of a new family Pseudochilidae.  Crustacean Research
  

2002

• Smith, D. J. Ardisastra, A.  and Budianto, A. (in prep). The abundance, size distribution and natural recruitment potential of giant clam species of the Wakatobi Marine National Park (SE Sulawesi, Indonesia). Coral reefs [expected submission date March 2003].  

• Day, R. (2002) The distribution, abundance and feeding behaviour of Bohadschia graeffei, a non-exploited Holothuroidean

• Comparison of the abundance, size composition and distribution of Giant Clams in exploited and non-exploited areas

• The distribution and abundance of Protoreaster nodulosus

2001

• Biodiversity, abundance and factors affecting distribution of Opisthobranchs

• Relationship between the distribution of Opisthobranchs with hard and soft corals

• Habitat usage and genetic variability in Synaptula species

• Relationship between coral and Opisthobranch distribution

• Godfrey, S. (2001). Factors affecting nudibranch diversity in the Wakatobi marine national park

2000

• Billings, V.C. Sullivan, M. & Vine, H. (2000) Sighting of Thysanoteuthis rhombus egg mass in Indonesian waters and observations on embryonic development.  J. Mar. Biol. Ass., UK (2000), 80, 1139-1140.

• Sea Cucumbers

• Density and distribution of Protoreaster nodulosus

• Density, distribution and feeding behaviour of an intertidal Chiritoda sp.

• The Caridean shrimp fauna of the Wakatobi

• Species inventory of Opisthobranchs

• A comparison of feeding behaviour and radula morphology in Nudibranchs

• Opisthobranch Fauna

1999

• Summary of Opisthobranch records from the Wakatobi

• Sullivan M. Summary of marine species recorded 1995 - 1999 in the Tukangbesi (report available on Hoga and from the Op Wall UK offices)

• Moore, A. (1997) A Review of the Taxonomy of the Holothurian species recorded from South and South-East Sulawesi  (report available on Hoga and from the UK Op Wall offices).