Ernst S. Reese

PhD UCLA (Zoology), 1960

Professor, Department of Zoology

Department of Zoology, University of Hawai`i

2538 McCarthy Mall, Edmondson 152

Honolulu, HI 96822

fax: (808) 956-9812

ereese@hawaii.edu

Behavioral ecology of coral reef animals

[publications] [educational films and videos] [graduate students] My teaching and research interests are in animal behavior and behavioral ecology. Currently I am working on the social behavior of reef fishes. I am particularly interested in the relationship of food and feeding behavior to behavioral ecology and life history characteristics, coevolution of corals and reef fishes, orientation behavior of butterflyfishes, and the use of butterflyfishes as indicators of conditions on coral reefs. Current interests include management strategies for the conservation of coral reff ecosystems.

Representative publications:

Reese ES, Crosby MP. 1999. The use of indicator species for coral reef monitoring. In: Proceedings of the Hawaii Coral Reef Monitoring Workshop: A tool for Management, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Crosby MP, Reese ES.1996. A Manual for Monitoring Coral Reefs with Indicator Species: Butterflyfishes as Indicators of Change on Indo Pacific Reefs. Silver Spring, MD: Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOAA. 45 pp. (a training video accompanies this manual)

Reese ES. 1995. The use of indicator species to detect change on coral reefs: butterflyfishes of the Family Chaetodontidae as indicators for coral reefs. In: Coral Reef Symposium on Monitoring methods, Annapolis, Maryland. p 19-23.

Reese ES. 1993. Reef fishes as indicators of conditions on coral reefs. In: Proc. of the Colloquium on Global Aspects of Coral Reefs, University of Miami, Miami, Florida. p 59-65.

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Educational documentary films and videos:

1974. The Behavior and Ecology of Coral Reef Fishes. 16 mm, color, 30 min. Science Software Systems, Los Angeles.
1976. The Social Biology of Butterflyfishes. 16 mm, color, 12 min. Science Software Systems, Los Angeles.
1993. The Behavior and Ecology of Coral Reef Fishes. VHS, 30 min. Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
1996. Monitoring Coral Reefs with Indicator Species. VHS, 15 min. Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOAA, Washington, D.C.

Current students:

Darby K. Irons (PhD): optimality models of territorial behavior in butterflyfishes
David A. Strang (PhD): mating systems and social behavior of butterflyfishes

NOTE: Dr. Reese no longer is accepting new graduate students.

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