Expeditions

Reef Monitoring and Research Expedition

Field of study

SST logger collection and maintainance, fish surveys, video transects, photo transects, coral cover, reef fish biomass, cryptic species, birds, juvenile corals,pelagic fish, Shark counts, fish behaviour, genetic analysis of CoTS, shoreline erosion

Vessel(s)

BPV Pacific Marlin

Funder(s)

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Start

2/2012

End

4/3/2012

Description

SST logger collection and maintainance, fish surveys, video transects, photo transects, coral cover, reef fish biomass, cryptic species, birds, juvenile corals,pelagic fish, shark counts, fish behaviour, genetic analysis of CoTS, shoreline erosion.

Expedition leader

Charles Sheppard

Expedition leader email

Charles.Sheppard@warwick.ac.uk

Members

• Pete Carr
• Nicholas Graham
• Heather Koldewey
• Anne Sheppard
• Charles Sheppard
• David Tickler
• P Cotte
• Catherine Head
• T LeTissier
• Jessica Meeuwig
• Peter Raines

Publications

• The Status of Coral Reef Fish Assemblages in the Chagos Archipelago, with Implications for Protected Area Management and Climate Change - 2013
• High prevalence of obligate coral-dwelling decapods on dead corals in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean - 2015

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