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Shifting ecological baselines and the demise of Acropora cervicornis in the western North Atlantic and Caribbean Province: a Pleistocene perspective by Greenstein, B J, Curran, HA, Pandolfi, J M

“…In recent years, marine scientists have become increasingly alarmed over the decline of live coral cover throughout the Caribbean and tropical western Atlantic…”
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Preservation of Community Structure in Death Assemblages of Deep-Water Caribbean Reef Corals by Pandolfi, John M., Greenstein, Benjamin J.

“…An in situ survey of deep reef environments (20 and 30 m) was conducted to determine the degree to which the community structure of live reef coral assemblages…”
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Is the fossil record of regular echinoids really so poor? A comparison of living and subfossil assemblages by Greenstein, Benjamin J

“…Live (biocoenoses) and dead (taphocoenoses) populations of regular and irregular echinoids inhabiting shallow water environments of San Salvador and…”
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Taphonomy of crown-of-thorns starfish : implications for recognizing ancient population outbreaks by GREENSTEIN, B. J, PANDOLFI, J. M, MORAN, P. J

“…A field experiment was conducted to determine whether in situ mass mortality of Acanthaster planci subsequent to a simulated outbreak would leave a…”
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Taphonomic alteration of reef corals; effects of reef environment and coral growth form; II, The Florida Keys by Greenstein, Benjamin J, Pandolfi, John M

“…In a companion study to earlier work in the Indo-Pacific, taphonomic alteration in reef-coral death assemblages was assessed in four distinct reef habitats…”
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A fossil reef from the last interglacial, Western Australia by Greenstein, Benjamin J, Pandolfi, John M, Blakeway, David R

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An integrated study of echinoid taphonomy; predictions for the fossil record of four echinoid families by Greenstein, Benjamin J

“…Field observations of four common tropical Western Atlantic regular echinoids, Diadema antillarum, Eucidaris tribuloides, Echinometra lucunter and Tripneustes…”
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Taphonomic bias and the evolutionary history of the family Cidaridae (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) by Greenstein, Benjamin J.

“…The class Echinoidea apparently originated during the Ordovician Period and diversified slowly through the Paleozoic Era. The clade then mushroomed in…”
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Mass mortality of the West-Indian echinoid Diadema antillarum (Echinodermata; Echinoidea); a natural experiment in taphonomy by Greenstein, Benjamin J

“…During 1983, populations of the common long-spined echinoid Diadema antillarum were decimated by disease throughout the Caribbean and as far north as Bermuda…”
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Taphonomic Alteration of Reef Corals: Effects of Reef Environment and Coral Growth Form II: The Florida Keys by Greenstein, B J, Pandolfi, J M

“…In a companion study to earlier work in the Indo-Pacific, taphonomic alteration in reef-coral death assemblages was assessed in four distinct reef habitats…”
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Shifting ecological baselines and the demise of Acropora cervicornis in the western North Atlantic and Caribbean Province : a Pleistocene perspective: Holocene and Pleistocene geology by GREENSTEIN, B. J, CURRAN, H. A, PANDOLFI, J. M

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Comparative taphonomy of modern and Pleistocene corals, San Salvador, Bahamas by Greenstein, Benjamin J, Moffat, Heather A

“…The taphonomic condition of the corals Acropora cervicornis and A. palmate obtained from two facies of the late Pleistocene Cockburn Town fossil reef was…”
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History of Life, 4th Edition by GREENSTEIN, BENJAMIN J

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Comparison of recent coral life and death assemblages to pleistocene reef communities: Implications for rapid faunal replacement on recent reefs by Greenstein, Benjamin J., Harris, Lora A., Curran, H. Allen

“…Marine ecologists and paleoecologists are increasingly recognizing that the Pleistocene and Holocene fossil record of coral reefs is the exclusive database…”
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