DR MARK VERMEIJ

Dr Mark Vermeij

Coral Reef Ecologist
CARMABI Foundation
Piscaderabaai z/n, Willemstad, Curaçao, Neth. Antilles
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• Vermeij, M.J.A., Bakker, J., van der Hal, N., Bak, R.P.M. (2011) Juvenile coral abundance has decreased by more than 50% in only three decades on a small Caribbean island. Diversity 3(3), 296-307. [PDF]
• Vermeij, M.J.A., M.L. Dailer and C.M. Smith (2011) Crustose coralline algae can suppress macroalgal growth and recruitment on Hawaiian coral reefs. Coral Reefs. Marine Eology Progress Series 422: 1-7. (Featured Article). [PDF]
• Vermeij, M.J.A., I. van Moorselaar, S. Engelhard, C. Hörnlein, S. M. Vonk and P. M. Visser (2010) The effects of nutrient enrichment and herbivore abundance on the ability of turf algae to overgrow coral in the Caribbean. PLoS ONE. [PDF]
• Vermeij, M. J.A. (2010) First observation of a nocturnal nudibranch feeding on Caribbean corals.  Coral Reefs 29: 1047. [PDF]
• Filatov, M.V., J.A. Kaandorp, M. Postmal, R. van Liere, K. J. Kruszyński , M. J.A. Vermeij, G. J. Streekstra and R.P.M.Bak (2010) A comparison between coral colonies of the genus Madracis and simulated forms. Proc Roy Soc B. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0957. [PDF]
• Vermeij, M.J.A., K.L. Marhaver, C.M. Huijbers, I. Nagelkerken and S.D. Simpson (2010) Coral larvae move towards reef sounds. PLoS ONE 5(5): e10660. [PDF]
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Barott, K.L., Johnson, A.E. and K.L. Marhaver (2010) Release of eggs from tentacles in a Caribbean coral. Coral Reefs 29: 411. [PDF]
• Vermeij, M.J.A., A.O. Debrot, N. van der Hal, J. Bakker and R.P.M.  Bak (2010) Increased recruitment rates indicate recovering populations of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum on Curaçao. Bulletin of Marine Science  86: 719-725
• Toller, W., Debrot, A.O., Vermeij, M.J.A. and P.C. Hoetjes. (2010) Reef fishes of Saba Bank, Netherlands Antilles: Assemblage structure across a gradient of habitat types. PLoS ONE 5(5): e9207
• Vermeij, M.J.A., M.L. Dailer, S.M. Walsh, M.K. Donovan and C.M. Smith (2010) The effects of trophic interactions and spatial competition on algal community composition on Hawaiian coral reefs. Marine Ecology 31: 291-299
• Ritson-Williams, R., Arnold, S., Fogarty, N., Steneck, R., Vermeij, M.J.A. and V. Paul (2009) New perspectives on ecological mechanisms affecting coral recruitment on reefs. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, No. 38:437-457.
• Vermeij, M.J.A (2009) Floating corallites: a new ecophenotype in scleractinian corals. Coral Reefs 28: 987.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Smith, T., Dailer, M.L. and C.M. Smith (2009) Release from native herbivores facilitates the persistence of invasive marine algae: a biogeographical comparison of the relative contribution of nutrients and herbivory to invasion success. Biological Invasions 11: 1463-1474.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Smith, J.E., Smith, C.M., Vega Thurber R. and S.A. Sandin (2009) Survival and settlement success of coral planulae: independent and synergistic effects of macroalgae and microbes. Oecologia 159: 325-336.
• Sandin, S.A., Vermeij, M.J.A. and A.H. Hurlbert (2008) Biogeography of Caribbean reef fish. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 770–777.
• Sandin, S.A., Sampayo, E.M. and M.J.A. Vermeij (2008) Coral reef fish and benthic community structure of Bonaire and Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 44: 137-144.
• Vermeij, M.J.A. and S.A. Sandin (2008) Density dependent recruitment and mortality in a tropical benthic invertebrate. Ecology 89(7): 1994–2004.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Frade, P., Jacinto, R., Debrot, A.O. and R.P.M. Bak (2007) Reproductive mode drives habitat-related differences in population structure of eight Caribbean coral species. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 351: 91-102.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Sandin S.A. and J.F. Samhouri (2007) Local habitat composition determines the relative frequency and interbreeding potential for two Caribbean coral morphospecies. Evolutionary Ecology 21: 27-47.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Fogarty, N. D. and M.W. Miller. (2006) Variable planktonic conditions affect larval behavior, survival, and settlement patterns in the Caribbean coral Montastraea faveolata. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 310: 119-128.
• Vermeij,  M.J.A. (2006). Early life-history dynamics of Caribbean coral species on artificial substratum: the importance of competition, growth and variation in life-history strategy. Coral Reefs 25: 59-71.
• Vermeij, M.J.A. and S.A. Sandin (2006) Coral species complexes through space and time: an illustration of their dynamics using Madracis in the Caribbean. Proc. 10th Int. Coral Reef Symp, Okinawa, Japan.
• Kaandorp, J.A., Bak, R.P.M. and M.J.A. Vermeij (2006) Modeling of nutrient gradients in three-dimensional images - and simulated morphologies of a branching coral. Proc. 10th Int. Coral Reef Symp, Okinawa, Japan.
• Vermeij, M.J.A. (2005) Substrate characteristics and adult density determine recruitment patterns in a Caribbean brooding coral. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 295: 123-133.
• Vermeij, M.J.A. (2005) A novel growth strategy allows Tubastrea coccinea to escape small-scale adverse conditions and start over again. Coral Reefs 24: 442-442.
• Kaandorp, J.A., Sloot, P.M.A., Merks, R.M.H., Bak, R.P.M. and M.J.A. Vermeij (2005). Morphogenesis of the branching coral  Madracis mirabilis.  Proc. Roy. Acad. B.  272: 127-133.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Broker, K., Sampayo, E. and R.P.M. Bak. (2004) Gametogenesis in the Caribbean genus Madracis. Coral reefs 23: 206-214.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Diekmann, O.E. and R.P.M. Bak (2003) A new species of Scleractinian coral (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), Madracis carmabi n.sp. from the Southern Caribbean. Bull. Mar. Sc. 73(3): 679-684.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Broker, K., Sampayo, E. and R.P.M. Bak. (2003). Planulae release in the Caribbean genus Madracis. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 247: 75-84.
• Vermeij, M.J.A.  and R.P.M. Bak. (2003) Inferring demographic processes from population size structure in corals.  Proc. 9th Int. Coral Reef Symp.I: 589-593.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Engelen, A.E. and R.P.M. Bak (2003) Deep formations (50 –80 m) of the solitary coral Phacelocyanthus flos on southern Caribbean reefs. Coral Reefs 22: 107-108.
• Vermeij, M.J.A. and R.P.M. Bak (2003). Species specific population structures of five closely related Madracis morphospecies along a depth gradient (5-60m) at a Caribbean coral reef. Bull. Mar. Sc. 73(3): 725-744.
• Kaandorp, J.A., Koopman, E.A. Sloot, P.M.A., Bak, R.P.M., Vermeij, M.J.A. and L.E.H. Lampmann. (2003) Simulation and analysis of flow patterns around the scleractinian coral Madracis mirabilis (Duchassaing and Michelotti). Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London B. 358: 1551-1557.
• Vermeij, M.J.A. and R.P.M. Bak (2002) How are coral populations structured by light? Marine light regimes and the distribution of Madracis. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 233: 105-116.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Delvoye, L. and R.P.M. Bak. (2002). Fluorescence in the Caribbean coral genus Madracis. Photosynthetica 40(3): 423-429.
• Vermeij, M.J.A. and R.P.M. Bak (2002) Corals on the move: rambling of Madracis pharensis polyps early after settlement. Coral Reefs 21: 262-263.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., Kaandorp, J.A., Bak, R.P.M. and L.E.H. Lampmann. (2001). Three-dimensional morphological analysis of growth forms of Madracis mirabilis. In: Kaandorp, J.A. and J. Kuebler (eds) The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals. Springer Verlag, New York, U.S.A.