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Joshua Copus


Joshua Copus

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
University of Hawaii at Manoa  (United States of America)


Publications

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

Recent advances in the ecology of mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) | review
Kahng SE, Copus JM, Wagner D (2014)
Curr Opin Environ Sustain 7:72-81

An assessment of shallow and mesophotic reef brachyuran crab assemblages on the south shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i | article
Hurley KKC, Timmers MA, Godwin LS, Copus JM, Skillings DJ, Toonen RJ (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:103–112

Luzonichthys seaver, a new species of Anthiinae (Perciformes, Serranidae) from Pohnpei, Micronesia | article
Copus JM, Ka'apu-Lyons CA, Pyle RL (2015)
Biodivers Data J 3:e4902

Neoniphon pencei, a new species of holocentrid (Teleostei: Beryciformes) from Rarotonga, Cook Islands | article
Copus JM, Pyle RL, Earle JL (2015)
Biodivers Data J 3:e4180

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems | chapter
Kahng S, Copus JM, Wagner D (2017)
in: Marine Animal Forests (Springer) by Rossi S, Bramanti L, Gori A, Orejas C

Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Philippines | article
Arango BG, Pinheiro HT, Rocha C, Greene BD, Pyle RL, Copus JM, Shepherd B, Rocha LA (2019)
Zookeys 835:1-15

Exploring the Biodiversity of Understudied Benthic Taxa at Mesophotic and Deeper Depths: Examples From the Order Zoantharia (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) | article
Reimer JD, Kise H, Santos MEA, Lindsay DJ, Pyle RL, Copus JM, Bowen BW, Nonaka M, Higashiji T, Benayahu Y (2019)
Front Mar Sci 6:305

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems:Introduction and Overview | chapter
Pyle RL, Copus JM (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
Cook Islands | chapter
Pyle RL, Copus JM, McCormack G (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
The Hawaiian Archipelago | chapter
Spalding HL, Copus JM, Bowen BW, Kosaki RK, Longenecker K, Montgomery AD, Padilla-Gamino JL, Parrish FA, Roth MS, Rowley SJ, Toonen RJ, Pyle R (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
Fishes: Biodiversity | chapter
Pyle RL, Kosaki RK, Pinheiro HT, Rocha LA, Whitton RK, Copus JM (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019) by Yossi L, Puglise KA, Bridge T
Phylogeography of mesophotic coral ecosystems: squirrelfish and soldierfish (Holocentriformes: Holocentridae) | article
Copus JM, Walsh CAJ, Hoban ML, Lee AM, Pyle RL, Kosaki RK, Toonen RJ, Bowen BW (2022)
Diversity 14:691

The Habitat Persistence Hypothesis: a new perspective on the distribution of coral-reef organisms | article
Copus JM, Pyle RL, Bowen BW, Kosaki RK, Webster JM (2022)
Front. Biogeogr. 14:e57427

Prognathodes geminus, a new species of butterflyfish (Teleostei, Chaetodontidae) from Palau | article
Copus JM, Pyle RL, Greene BD, Randall JE (2019)
Zookeys 835:125-137

Shifting reef fish assemblages along a depth gradient in Pohnpei, Micronesia | article
Coleman RR, Copus JM, Coffey DM, Whitton RK, Bowen BW (2018)
PeerJ 6:e4650

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