A Case Study of the Effects of Management Interventions on the Phosphorus Dynamics at a Coastal, Eutrophic, Caribbean lagoon (Laguna Cartagena, Puerto Rico) by Yashira Marie Sánchez Colón, Fred Charles Schaffner

“…When exposed sediments were re-flooded, phosphorus concentrations to the water column increased, releasing elevated P concentrations downstream to an estuarine wetlands area and the Caribbean Sea. Herein we offer management recommendations to optimize wildlife habitat without elevating phosphorus concentrations.…”
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Coral reef degradation at an atoll of the Western Colombian Caribbean by Natalia Rivas, Carlos E. Gómez, Santiago Millán, Katherine Mejía-Quintero, Luis Chasqui

“…Quitasueño is a remote atoll within the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, in the Southwestern Caribbean Sea. To evaluate the current status of the coral reefs in Quitasueño we sampled 120 stations through Rapid Ecological Assessment and evaluated four stations through Planar Point Intercept to compare the current percent cover of benthic groups with previous studies in the area. …”
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The troglomorphic adaptations of Namanereidinae (Annelida, Nereididae) revisited, including a redescription of Namanereis cavernicola (Solís-Weiss & Espinasa, 1991), and a... by Víctor Manuel Conde-Vela

“…The new species, herein described as Namanereis christopheri sp. n., was collected in a cave 435 m above sea level in Saint Vincent, Caribbean Sea. The species resembles N. cavernicola but it differs because it has shorter tentacular cirri, margin of prostomium entire, rounded neuropodial lobes and broader dorsal cirri throughout body. …”
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Sea slugs (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from Rio Grande do Norte, Northeastern Brazil by Marlon Delgado, Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais Freire, Carlos Augusto Oliveira de Meirelles, Rosângela Gondim D’Oliveira, Vinicius Padula, Juliana Bahia, Simone Nunes Brandão

“…The present survey expands the knowledge of the diversity of sea slugs from Brazil and supports the hypothesis of similarity between the heterobranch sea slug fauna from the northeastern Brazil and the Caribbean Sea.…”
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Using Spatial Planning Tools to Identify Potential Areas for the Harnessing of Ocean Currents in the Mexican Caribbean by Isabel Bello-Ontiveros, Gabriela Mendoza-González, Lizbeth Márquez-Pérez, Rodolfo Silva

“…A spatial analysis was carried out to evaluate the compatibility of human activities and biophysical characteristics in the Mexican Caribbean Sea, in order to identify the most viable areas for energy generation from ocean currents and the areas where the population would most benefit from such energy projects. …”
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Assessment of Saildrone Extreme Wind Measurements in Hurricane Sam Using MW Satellite Sensors by Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Gregory R. Foltz, Andrew Manaster, Thomas Meissner

“…In 2021, a novel NOAA-Saildrone project deployed five uncrewed surface vehicle Saildrones (SDs) to monitor regions of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea frequented by tropical cyclones. One of the SDs, SD-1045, crossed Hurricane Sam (Category 4) on September 30, providing the first-ever surface-ocean videos of conditions in the core of a major hurricane and reporting near-surface winds as high as 40 m/s. …”
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Obligation to Enhance OBIS Data for Sea- and Shorebirds of the Americas by Savannah Hartman, Pamela Hallock, Frank Muller-Karger

“…The global-scale open-access data platform, Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS), was searched to compile data on bird distributions of the Americas, including the Caribbean Sea. More than 680,000 occurrence records of 210 species, collected between 1965 and 2018, were located and evaluated by marine ecoregion. …”
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Genetic difference between African and Japanese scombropid populations based on cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene sequences by Hikaru Oyama, Shiro Itoi, Hiroyuki Ueda, Yukako Mochizuki, Minori Tanaka, Takeshi Ito, Hirotoshi Shishido, Yasuji Masuda, Noriyuki Takai, Haruo Sugita

“…The fish family Scombropidae consists of a single genus, Scombrops, and is distributed in the waters of the northwestern Pacific Ocean, southwestern Indian Ocean and western Atlantic Ocean, including the Caribbean Sea. Among these, the population of South Africa has been renamed from Scombrops dubius to Scombrops boops, which is known to be distributed in waters around Japanese Archipelago. …”
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Numerical Modelling of Free Surface Agitation in a Coastal Lagoon by Roadway Path Influence by Israel E. Herrera, Franklin M. Torres, Jatziri Y. Moreno, José M. Gutierrez, Noé Saldaña

“…The study area is located in the north of Colombia, and is made up of a continental coastal zone (Mallorquín Lagoon) and a marine zone (Caribbean Sea), in which a highway is projected that provides communication between two locations. …”
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Chlorophyll Estimation from Multivariate Regression Analysis and Deep Learning Using Remote Sensing Data by Sriniketan Sridhar, Carlos del Castillo, Vidya Manian

“…The Orinoco river is in Venezuela and flows into the Caribbean sea. The chlorophyll concentration in the ocean delta changes due to the dust deposition from the Orinoco river which affects the primary productivity. …”
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Invasion genomics of lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea by Giacomo Bernardi, Ernesto Azzurro, Michel Bariche, Carlos Jimenez, Stefanos Kalogirou, Periklis Kleitou

“…In light of the devastating effects of lionfish in the Caribbean Sea, understanding the dynamics of Mediterranean lionfish invasion is crucial. …”
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Developing the Next Generation of Autonomous Underwater Gliders by Ventola, Peter T.

“…The modified glider's efficacy is evaluated through various laboratory experiments and field data obtained in Buzzards Bay and the Caribbean Sea. Design concepts for a future, more advanced glider are also discussed.…”
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Hotspots of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity by Yasuhara, M, Huang, H-HM, Reuter, M, Tian, SY, Cybulski, JD, O’Dea, A, Mamo, BL, Cotton, LJ, Di Martino, E, Feng, R, Tabor, CR, Reygondeau, G, Zhao, Q, Warne, MT, Aye, KKT, Zhang, J, Chao, A, Wei, C-L, Condamine, FL, Kocsis, AT, Kiessling, W, Costello, MJ, Tittensor, DP, Chaudhary, C, Rillo, MC, Doi, H, Dong, Y-W, Cronin, TM, Saupe, EE, Lotze, HK, Johnson, KG, Renema, W, Pandolfi, JM, Harzhauser, M, Jackson, JBC, Hong, Y

“…Here, we review the global dynamics of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity hotspots, including the four major hotspots of the Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA), western Tethys (present Mediterranean), Arabian Sea and Caribbean Sea. Our review supports the ‘Hopping Hotspots’ model, which proposes that the locations of peak biodiversity are related to Tethyan faunal elements and track broadscale shallow-marine habitats and high coastal complexity created by the collision of tectonic plates. …”

Biogeography, Systematics, and Ecomorphology of Pacific Island Anoles by John G. Phillips, Sarah E. Burton, Margarita M. Womack, Evan Pulver, Kirsten E. Nicholson

“…Most work on this group has focused on species in the Caribbean Sea, and recently in mainland South and Central America. …”
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Shrimps of the genus Thor Kingsley, 1878 (Caridea, Thoridae): description of a new species using integrative data, remarks on Thor manningi Chace, 1972, and a world identification... by Mariana Terossi, Alexandre Oliveira Almeida, Fernando Luis Mantelatto, Ana Paula Leite Kochenborger

“…Thor manningi Chace, 1972 was originally described from Antigua and since then has been recorded from other Atlantic localities, including the Caribbean Sea, Bermuda, USA, Brazil, and Ascension Island. …”
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Migratory behavior and connectivity revealed in a secretive Neotropical migratory songbird, the Swainson’s Warbler by Alicia R. Brunner, Bryant C. Dossman, Vitek Jirinec, Katie L. Percy, Christopher M. Tonra, Erik I. Johnson, Peter P. Marra

“…Geolocator data documented that a portion of migratory flights in both populations were sustained well into the day, suggesting that birds migrated over large bodies of water (i.e., Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea) during both spring and fall migration. …”
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Hydrokinetic Energy and Transient Accelerations of Marine Currents in Colombian Nearshore Waters by Juan Gabriel Rueda-Bayona, Juan José Cabello Eras, Ana Lucía Caicedo-Laurido, Andrés Guzmán, José Luis García Vélez

“…In this sense, this study analyzed current profiles in nearshore waters (8.9 m depths) measured over six months in the Colombian Caribbean Sea and found internal waves due to the manifestation of transient acceleration propagating in two of the three layers of the water column. …”
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Trabectedin – the DNA minor groove binder by G. A. Belitsky, K. I. Kirsanov, E. A. Lesovaya, M. G. Yakubovskaya

“…Trabectedin (ET-743, Yondelis) is an alkaloid that was originally isolated from the Caribbean Sea squirt, Ecteinascidia turbinata and is now produced synthetically. …”
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Distribution of Miathyria marcella larvae (Odonata: Libellulidae) and water quality of wetlands in Northern Colombia by María Moreno Pallares, María A. Bonilla Gómez, Gabriel Guillot Monroy, Ana C. Torregroza-Espinosa

“…Abundance was greater in wetlands influenced by the Magdalena River, with 19.4 ± 1.7 and 9.3 ± 1.4 individuals; followed by wetlands hydrologically influenced by seasonal runoff, with 8.1 ± 0.4 and 6.4 ± 0.4 individuals; and lowest in wetlands with influence of the Caribbean Sea, with 3.9 ± 0.3 and 0.3 ± 0.1 individuals. …”
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Inter ocean basin moisture fluxes and the onset of the summer rainy season over southern Mexico by Víctor Magaña, Sonia Diaz

“…We propose that the sequence of events that leads to the onset of the rainy season in southern Mexico is: (i) an episode of strong moisture flux from the Caribbean Sea into the eastern Pacific ITCZ, (ii) a region of intense convective activity in the ITCZ that triggers a quasi-stationary low-level cyclonic circulation which in turn, induces moisture flux into southern Mexico, and (iii) the development of convective activity in southern Mexico that determines the onset of the rainy season. …”
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