Recent Strengthening of the ENSO Influence on the Early Winter East Atlantic Pattern by Jiayi Hou, Zheng Fang, Xin Geng

“…This influence is associated with ENSO-induced dipolar convection anomalies in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea (GMCA), which leads to an EAP via exciting Rossby waves propagating northward into the North Atlantic. …”
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Polyketide Synthases in the Microbiome of the Marine Sponge Plakortis halichondrioides: A Metagenomic Update by Gerardo Della Sala, Thomas Hochmuth, Roberta Teta, Valeria Costantino, Alfonso Mangoni

“…A comprehensive overview of polyketide biosynthetic genes of the sponge Plakortis halichondrioides and its symbionts was obtained in the present study by massively parallel 454 pyrosequencing of complex and heterogeneous PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) products amplified from the metagenomic DNA of a specimen of P. halichondrioides collected in the Caribbean Sea. This was accompanied by a survey of the bacterial diversity within the sponge. …”
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Pelagic <i>Sargassum</i> as a Potential Vector for Microplastics into Coastal Ecosystems by Dalila Aldana Arana, Tania P. Gil Cortés, Víctor Castillo Escalante, Rosa E. Rodríguez-Martínez

“…As <i>Sargassum</i> mats traverse the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, they entrap and transport plastic to coastal areas, intensifying pollution in diverse ecosystems. …”
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Implications of GNSS-Inferred Tropopause Altitude Associated with Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes by Tao Xian, Gaopeng Lu, Hongbo Zhang, Yongping Wang, Shaolin Xiong, Qibin Yi, Jing Yang, Fanchao Lyu

“…The regional TGF-related tropopause altitude in Africa and the Caribbean Sea is 0.1–0.4 km lower than the climatology, whereas that in Asia is 0.1–0.2 km higher. …”
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Variability of Precipitation Recycling and Moisture Sources over the Colombian Pacific Region: A Precipitationshed Approach by Angelica M. Enciso, Olga Lucia Baquero, Daniel Escobar-Carbonari, Jeimar Tapasco, Wilmar L. Cerón

“…From December to April, the main contributions come from continental sources in eastern Colombia and Venezuela, the tropical North Atlantic, and the Caribbean Sea, a period of high activity of the Orinoco Low-Level jet. …”
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Mesoscale Shoreline Evolution on a Carbonate Sand Island: Anegada, British Virgin Islands by Anna Lisa Cescon, J. Andrew G. Cooper, Derek W. T. Jackson, Antoine Collin, Shannon Gore

“…Anegada, the easternmost island of the Virgin Islands group (Caribbean Sea), is a low Pleistocene carbonate platform surrounded by Horseshoe Reef, the world’s third-largest fringing reef. …”
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Assessing the Risk of <i>Legionella</i> Infection through Showering with Untreated Rain Cistern Water in a Tropical Environment by Hunter Quon, Maura Allaire, Sunny C. Jiang

“…In September 2017, two category-5 hurricanes Irma and Maria swept through the Caribbean Sea in what is now known as the region’s most active hurricane season on record, leaving disastrous effects on infrastructure and people’s lives. …”
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Cross-Hemispheric Genetic Diversity and Spatial Genetic Structure of <i>Callinectes sapidus</i> Reovirus 1 (CsRV1) by Mingli Zhao, Louis V. Plough, Donald C. Behringer, Jamie Bojko, Andrew S. Kough, Nathaniel W. Alper, Lan Xu, Eric J. Schott

“…To expand our understanding of the genetic diversity of Callinectes sapidus reovirus 1 (CsRV1) across a broad spatial and host life history range of its blue crab host (<i>Callinectes sapidus</i>), we obtained 22 complete and 96 partial genomic sequences for CsRV1 strains from the US Atlantic coast, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic coast of South America. …”
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Geographic range size and species morphology determines the organization of sponge host-guest interaction networks across tropical coral reefs by Antar Mijail Pérez-Botello, Wesley Dáttilo, Nuno Simões

“…This study is a meta-analysis based on previous sponge host-guest literature obtained in 65 scientific publications, yielding a total of 745 host-guest interactions between sponges and their associated fauna across the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. We analyzed the sponge species contribution to network organization in the Northwest Tropical Atlantic coral reefs by using the combination of seven complementary species-level descriptors and related this importance with three main traits, sponge-accumulated geographic area, functional sponge morphology, and sponges’ taxonomy bias. …”
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First satellite tracks of the Endangered black-capped petrel by PGR Jodice, RA Ronconi, E Rupp, GE Wallace, Y Satgé

“…During chick rearing, petrels primarily used marine habitats in the southern Caribbean Sea (ca. 18.0° to 11.5°N, 70.0° to 75.5°W) between the breeding site and the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia. …”
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High Synteny and Sequence Identity between Genomes of <i>Nitrosococcus oceani</i> Strains Isolated from Different Oceanic Gyres Reveals Genome Economization and Autochthonous Clona... by Lin Wang, Chee Kent Lim, Martin G. Klotz

“…We generated and compared high quality draft genome sequences of <i>N. oceani</i> strains isolated from the Northeast (AFC27) and Southeast (AFC132) Pacific Ocean and the coastal waters near Barbados at the interface between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean (C-27) with the recently published Draft Genome Sequence of <i>N. oceani</i> Strain NS58 (West Pacific Ocean) and the complete genome sequence of <i>N. oceani</i> C-107, the type strain (ATCC 19707) isolated from the open North Atlantic, with the goal to identify indicators for the evolutionary origin of the species. …”
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Validation of the CHIRPS dataset in a coastal region with extensive plains and complex topography by Heli A. Arregocés, Roberto Rojano, Jhonny Pérez

“…In this study, CHIRPS datasets were validated for a coastal region with extensive plains and complex topography in northern Colombia near the Caribbean Sea. This region presents a complex topography, posing significant challenges for retrieval of rainfall data using remote sensing. …”
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Testing marine regional-scale hypotheses along the Yucatan continental shelf using soft-bottom macrofauna by Ivan Hernandez-Avila, Frank A. Ocaña, Daniel Pech

“…Different hypotheses related to the regional-scale configuration of the Yucatan Continental Shelf (YCS) between the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and the Caribbean Sea have been proposed. Hypotheses regarding its regional boundaries include: (i) an ecoregional boundary at Catoche Cape, dividing the Western Caribbean and the Southern GoM ecoregions; and (ii) a boundary within the Southern GoM ecoregion at 89°W, separating the West and Mid-Yucatan areas. …”
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Karyotypic changes and diversification time in Epinephelidae groupers (Perciformes). Implications on reproductive isolation by KARLLA DANIELLE J. AMORIM, GIDEÃO W.W.F. COSTA, CLÓVIS C. MOTTA-NETO, RODRIGO X. SOARES, AMANDA T. BORGES, DANIEL D. BENETTI, MARCELO B. CIOFFI, LUIZ A.C. BERTOLLO, ALONGKLOD TANOMTONG, WAGNER F. MOLINA

“…Thus, chromosomal analyses were performed on E. striatus (Caribbean Sea), E. coioides and E. tauvina (Indo-Pacific Region), using standard procedures and mapping of six repetitive DNA classes by the in situ hybridization. …”
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Registros novos e adicionais de teleósteos marinhos na costa brasileira by Rodrigo Antunes Caires, José Lima de Figueiredo, Roberto Ávila Bernardes

“…The serranids Pseudogramma gregoryi (recorded from Florida to Venezuela), and Plectranthias garrupellus (recorded from North Carolina to Caribbean Sea) were found, respectively, in coast of Ceará and in southeastern and southern Brazilian coast. …”
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Navigating Shared Vulnerabilities: Climate Adaptation on the Split Island of Saint Martin by Flamme, Emilie

“…The island of Saint Martin on the windward side of the Caribbean Sea is a volcanic island whose low-lying areas are at high risk for flooding and storm surges as a result of exposure to increasing severe hurricanes that is compounded by sea level rise. …”
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Widespread metabolic potential for nitrite and nitrate assimilation among Prochlorococcus ecotypes by Kathuria, Satish, Martiny, Adam C., Berube, Paul M.

“…Also, we find that their relative occurrence is higher in the Caribbean Sea and Indian Ocean compared with the Sargasso Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean, which may be related to the nitrogen availability in each region. …”
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Hydrography of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in the North Atlantic by Nelson, N, Siegel, D, Carlson, C, Swan, C, Smethie Jr, WM, Khatiwala, S

“…The distribution and optical absorption characteristics of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) were systematically investigated along three meridional transects in the North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea conducted as part of the 2003 US CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography survey. …”

The American monsoon system: variability and teleconnections by García-Franco, JL

“…These results suggest that the MSD can be most consistently explained through the effect of seasonally varying moisture transport driven by the low-level flow in the Caribbean Sea. The influence of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) teleconnections is explored in several climate model simulations, and the results suggest that the QBO could affect ocean-atmosphere phenomena. …”

Soluble iron conservation and colloidal iron dynamics in a hydrothermal plume by Lough, AJM, Homoky, WB, Connelly, DP, Comer-Warner, SA, Nakamura, K, Abyaneh, MK, Kaulich, B, Mills, RA

“…To learn more, we have examined the dispersion of total dissolvable Fe (TDFe), dissolved Fe (dFe) and soluble Fe (sFe) in the buoyant and non-buoyant hydrothermal plume above the Beebe vent field, Caribbean Sea. We have also characterised plume particles using electron microscopy and synchrotron based spectromicroscopy.…”