Reverter, Miriam Jackson, Matthew Daraghmeh, Nauras von Mach, Christian Milton, Nina
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Coral Reefs
Corals from the Gulf of Aqaba (northern Red Sea) are resilient to high temperatures and therefore this region is regarded as globally important for reef conservation. However, long-term dynamics of coral reef assemblages from the Gulf of Aqaba remain largely understudied. In this study, we analysed the change in benthic, fish and invertebrate assem...
Larouche, Olivier Benton, Bailey Corn, Katherine A. Friedman, Sarah T. Gross, Dominique Iwan, Mikayla Kessler, Brian Martinez, Christopher M. Rodriguez, Sierra Whelpley, Hannah
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Coral Reefs
Marine habitats vary widely in structure, from incredibly complex coral reefs to simpler deep water and open ocean habitats. Hydromechanical models of swimming kinematics and microevolutionary studies suggest that these habitats select for different body shape characteristics. Fishes living in simple habitats are predicted to experience selection f...
McLachlan, Rowan H. Price, James T. Solomon, Sarah L. Grottoli, Andréa G.
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Coral Reefs
For over three decades, scientists have conducted heat-stress experiments to predict how coral will respond to ocean warming due to global climate change. However, there are often conflicting results in the literature that are difficult to resolve, which we hypothesize are a result of unintended biases, variation in experimental design, and underre...
Gudka, Mishal Obura, David Mbugua, James Ahamada, Said Kloiber, Ulli Holter, Tammy
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Coral Reefs
Climate change, coupled with an El Niño, caused a devastating bleaching event in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) in 1998. Similar extreme conditions at the end of 2015 meant that there was a very high risk of widespread bleaching in the WIO at the start of 2016. In anticipation of a regional bleaching event, a citizen-science online reporting tool w...
Oury, Nicolas Gélin, Pauline Massé, Lola Magalon, Hélène
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Coral Reefs
With the recent taxonomic revision of the scleractinian Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus 1758), now identified as a species complex, former reproduction studies must be reconsidered. In this context, this study focuses on P. damicornis type β, more precisely SSH05c sensu Gélin et al. (Mol Phylogenet Evol 109:430–446, 2017b), found exclusively in th...
Burkepile, Deron E. Adam, Thomas C. Roycroft, Madelyn Ladd, Mark C. Munsterman, Katrina S. Ruttenberg, Benjamin I.
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Coral Reefs
Parrotfishes are key herbivores on Caribbean reefs but also feed on other benthic taxa such as corals and sponges. Here, we used in situ behavioral observations to show that Caribbean parrotfishes have species-specific feeding patterns of corallivory and spongivory. Overall, Scarus guacamaia, Scarus taeniopterus, and Sparisoma viride were the most ...
Figueroa, Diego F. McClure, Amelia Figueroa, Nicole J. Hicks, David W.
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Coral Reefs
Our research presents the first record of Tubastraea tagusensis (Wells, Notes on Indo-Pacific scleractinian corals. Part 9. New corals from the Galápagos Islands, 1982) in the Gulf of Mexico. Specimens of Tubastraea were collected from various artificial reefs. Morphological analyses of these specimens show that there are three distinct lineages of...
Comeros-Raynal, Mia T. Lawrence, Alice Sudek, Mareike Vaeoso, Motusaga McGuire, Kim Regis, Josephine Houk, Peter
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Coral Reefs
Water quality and fisheries exploitation are localized, chronic stressors that impact coral reef condition and resilience. Yet, quantifying the relative contribution of individual stressors and evaluating the degree of human impact to any particular reef are difficult due to the inherent variation in biological assemblages that exists across and wi...
Purkis, Sam J. Gleason, Arthur C. R. Purkis, Charlotte R. Dempsey, Alexandra C. Renaud, Philip G. Faisal, Mohamed Saul, Steven Kerr, Jeremy M.
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Coral Reefs
With compelling evidence that half the world’s coral reefs have been lost over the last four decades, there is urgent motivation to understand where reefs are located and their health. Without such basic baseline information, it is challenging to mount a response to the reef crisis on the global scale at which it is occurring. To combat this lack o...
Evensen, Nicolas R. Doropoulos, Christopher Wong, Kelly J. Mumby, Peter J.
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Coral Reefs
Benthic marine organisms rely on the dispersal and recruitment of propagules to replenish depleted populations following disturbances. Yet, ecological interactions between colonizing larvae and benthic competitors that become established following a disturbance can be a primary driver of recruitment success. On some coral reefs, local and global st...
