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., Barott, K.L., Johnson, A.E. and K.L. Marhaver (in press) Release of eggs from tentacles in a Caribbean coral. Coral Reefs.
• Vermeij, M.J.A., A.O. Debrot, N. van der Hal, J. Bakker and R.P.M.  Bak (in press) Increased recruitment rates indicate recovering populations of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum on Curaçao. Bulletin of Marine Science.
• Toller, W., Debrot, A.O., Vermeij, M.J.A. and P.C. Hoetjes. (in press) Reef fishes of Saba Bank, Netherlands Antilles: Assemblage structure across a gradient of habitat types. PLoS ONE.
• 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.