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Contribution of motile rubble-dwelling cryptofauna to the diet of invertivorous coral reef fishes
One of the least understood trophic pathways on coral reefs is the linkage between highly productive cryptic motile invertebrates (herein:...
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Shifting reef restoration focus from coral survivorship to biodiversity using Reef Carpets
To enhance the practice of farmed-coral transplantation, we conducted a trial of an approach called “ Reef Carpets ” (RC), which draws inspiration from...
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A metagenomic-based study of two sites from the Barbadian reef system
We study the microbiome of sea water collected from two locations of the Barbadian coral reefs. The two sites differ in several environmental and...
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Deoxygenation following coral spawning and low-level thermal stress trigger mass coral mortality at Coral Bay, Ningaloo Reef
Oxygen depletion is well recognized for its role in the degradation of tropical coral reefs. Extreme acute hypoxic events that lead to localized mass...
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Cryopreservation can assist gene flow on the Great Barrier Reef
Maintaining genetic diversity and biodiversity is key to sustaining healthy ecosystems and their capacity for adaptation. Assisted Gene Flow (AGF) is...
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Cryptofaunal diversity in fringing reef rhodoliths
Rhodolith distribution, morphology, and cryptofauna have been minimally studied on fringing reefs. We present the first study to examine both...
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Length–weight relationships to quantify biomass for motile coral reef cryptofauna
Length–weight relationships (LWRs) are a fundamental tool for the non-intrusive determination of biomass, a unit of measure that facilitates the...
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Life Forms of Aquatic Organisms
This chapter gives a kind of minimal introduction to the organisms living in water, as far as it is needed for an ecology textbook. It will not focus...
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Biology and epibiont community of the red decorator crab, Schizophrys aspera, on the southern Great Barrier Reef
Organismal symbioses are fundamental to biodiversity, evolution, and ecosystem functioning. On coral reefs, many decapod species have formed distinct...
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Pelagic Sargassum morphotypes support different rafting motile epifauna communities
Pelagic Sargassum macroalgal rafts in the North Atlantic support sessile and motile epifauna that attract ecologically and economically important...
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Implications of 2D versus 3D surveys to measure the abundance and composition of benthic coral reef communities
A paramount challenge in coral reef ecology is to estimate the abundance and composition of the communities residing in such complex ecosystems....
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Diel changes in structure and trophic functions of motile benthic invertebrates on coral reefs at Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Coral reefs are structurally complex habitats that provide diverse shelter for motile benthic invertebrates (MBI), including those with cryptic and...
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Cue selection and ontogeny reveal larval settlement dynamics of the long-spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum, a keystone coral reef herbivore
Understanding early life histories of keystone marine herbivores can broaden insight into population dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Settlement,...
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Succession and Spread of Coral Diseases and Coral-Killing Sponges with Special Reference to Microbes in Southeast Asia and Adjacent Waters
Corals and coral-associated organisms are threatened by repeated bleaching events and anthropogenic stresses, resulting in mass mortality and...
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The microbial community of coral reefs: biofilm composition on artificial substrates under different environmental conditions
Artificial reefs are used as tools for the restoration of degrading coral reefs by providing new settlement substrates. The initial recruitment...
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The biology and ecology of coral rubble and implications for the future of coral reefs
Structural complexity provided by the living coral reef framework is the basis of the rich and dynamic biodiversity in coral reefs. In many cases...
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Genomic signatures suggesting adaptation to ocean acidification in a coral holobiont from volcanic CO2 seeps
Ocean acidification, caused by anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, is predicted to have major consequences for reef-building corals, jeopardizing the...
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Biodiversity-based development and evolution: the emerging research systems in model and non-model organisms
Evolutionary developmental biology, or Evo-Devo for short, has become an established field that, broadly speaking, seeks to understand how changes in...
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Genomic Islands in Pseudomonas Species
Pseudomonas is a Gammaproteobacteria, Gram negative which normally found in natural habitat such as soil, water and air. Especially, in marine...
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Corallivory on small Porites colonies increases with coral colony size but is reduced by macroalgal associational refuge
Numerous tropical macroalgae provide associational refuge to other benthic organisms, presumably due to their physical structure and/or production of...
