Diadema

Diadema, Brazil Brazilian-managed beverage giant InBev NV isn't a household name in the U.S. now, but if it proceeds with its unsolicited bid for Anheuser-Busch Cos., its high-octane corporate culture could easily overwhelm the iconic U.S. brewer.

At InBev, a Gung-Ho Culture Rules 2008

At the Diadema distribution center, the company TV channel shows what looks to be a Brazilian game show, complete with bouncy music, a blond hostess and a raffle of prizes for sales reps.

At InBev, a Gung-Ho Culture Rules 2008

In 1983-1984 populations of the long-spined urchin (Diadema antillarum) were decimated by the attack of some unknown pathogen.

Threats to coral reefs 2008

About 90% of the coral died, but not the animals that prey upon it, such as crown-of-thorns Acanthaster planci, bioeroder sea urchins Diadema mexicanum and Eucidiaris thouarsii, and the coralivorous fish Arothron meleagris.

Isla del Coco Marine and Terrestrial Conservation Area, Costa Rica 2008

The fact that algal cover increased and coral cover decreased when the Diadema were removed and that algal cover has decreased and coral cover has increased in areas where Diameda has recovered suggests that herbivory by the urchin allows coexistence between the algae and corals.

Threats to coral reefs 2008

I just finished reading Extinction, Bad Genes or Bad Luck?, by David Raup (W.W. Norton and Company, 1991), and was reminded that some species, such as a black sea urchin in the Caribbean, the Diadema, have gone to extremely low numbers, then made resounding comebacks with a change in conditions.

Alternatives to Extinction* 2006

Iphias leucippe; the largest of the Danaidae, Hestia idea; and two unusually large and handsome Nymphalidae — Diadema pandarus, and Charaxes euryalus.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Euploea and Diadema, having broad bands or patches of white, which do not exist in any of the allied species from the larger islands.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

No single case is known of a male Papilio, Pieris, Diadema (or any other insect?) _alone_ mimicking a Danais, etc.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

In the much more powerful Papilio, Pieris, and Diadema it is generally the _female only_ that mimics Danaida.

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant