Yosephine Tuti

TL;DR: In this paper, the variability of physical settings of anchialine systems in Indonesia is discussed together with the consequences these settings have for the environment and biota within the systems, based on parameters such as bathymetry, size, coastline, salinity, water temperature, pH, degree of connection to the sea, and presence-absence of selected key taxa.

TL;DR: Substrate cover, water quality parameters and assemblages of corals, fishes, sponges, echinoderms, ascidians, molluscs, benthic foraminifera and macroalgae were sampled across a pronounced environmental gradient in the Jakarta Bay-Thousand Islands reef complex to explain variation in composition.

TL;DR: Significant on-to-offshore variation in a number of variables was observed in Indonesia’s Jakarta Bay – Pulau Seribu reef complex, indicating that spatial and environmental factors influence the distribution of species across the study area and have important implications for the large-scale management of this reef ecosystem.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the history of the Jakarta Bay-thousand islands reef system from 1985 to 2011, reporting significant shifts in coral generic composition and an overall decline in coral cover with widely different trajectories between in-, mid-and offshore zones.

TL;DR: The barcoding marker COI confirms that the species boundaries in morphologically highly variable species such as Phyllidia elegans,Phyllidia varicosa, and Phyllidiopsis krempfi are correct as presently understood, and future studies on phyllidiid systematics should continue to combine morphological information with DNA sequences to obtain a clearer insight in their phylogeny.