U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research on the Experimental Ecologyof Spiny Lobsters in the Mexican Caribbean
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This award supports the participation of David Miller of SUNY at                Cortland and Romuald Lipcius of the Virginia Institute of Marine                Science in a program of cooperative research with Roberto de la Torre           and others of the Centro de Investigaciones Quintana Roo in Mexico and          with Patricia Briones of the Puerto Morelos Marine Research Institute           of the National University of Mexico.  Using novel approaches based on          their previous experience with lobsters plus standard techniques of             experimental field ecology, they will carry out a comprehensive                 investigation of the ecology and population dynamics of Panulirus                                                                       __________              argus, the spiny lobster.  By means of field surveys, the collaborating         _____                                                                           scientists are determining habitation, growth, settlement, mortality,           and recruitment patterns of postlarval, juvenile and adult lobsters as          a function of environmental and biotic conditions.  They are then using         these results to design manipulative field experiments that assess the          relative importance of these factors.                                                                                                                           Spiny lobsters are key benthic predators in subtidal marine habitats of         tropical and subtropical waters.  In spite of extensive research                programs throughout the world, little information exists on the                 ecological relationships between the various life history phases of             this crustacean.  Due to the inability of researchers to find young             juveniles in sufficient numbers to carry out quantitative surveys and           manipulative field studies, less is known about the ecology of young            juveniles than of any other age group.  This lack of information has            precluded reliable estimates of natural settlement, growth, mortality,          and recruitment rates.  However, in the Mexican Caribbean there exist           locations with large numbers of postlarval, juvenile and adult spiny            lobsters.  The proposed U.S.-Mexico collaboration will take advantage           of this unusual research opportunity and will produce the most detailed         ecological information of any population of young juvenile spiny                lobsters in the world, which will also represent one of the most                extensive data sets gathered on any species in a nearshore marine               habitat.  When combined with the work on adults and larvae by Mexican           researchers, this study will provide a model of lobster research                applicable to fisheries throughout the Caribbean.
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