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Comparing anesthetic stations and environmental DNA sampling to determine community composition of cryptobenthic coral reef fishes of Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga
Cryptobenthic reef fishes (CRF) are an important component of coral reef communities that are often overlooked, as their cryptic nature and very...
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Coral reef fish density at a tourist destination responded rapidly to COVID-19 restrictions
Throughout the world, anthropogenic pressure on natural ecosystems is intensifying, notably through urbanisation, economic development, and tourism....
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Can Coral Reef Restoration Programmes Facilitate Changes in Environmental Attitudes? A Case Study on a Rural Fisher Community in North Bali, Indonesia
There is currently limited research assessing the ecological potential of coral restoration programmes of habitat enhancement and restoration of...
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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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Influence of reef isostasy, dynamic topography, and glacial isostatic adjustment on sea-level records in Northeastern Australia
Understanding sea level during the peak of the Last Interglacial (125,000 yrs ago) is important for assessing future ice-sheet dynamics in response...
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Population and clonal structure of Acropora cf. hyacinthus to inform coral restoration practices on the Great Barrier Reef
A key goal of coral restoration is to re-establish self-sustaining coral populations and ensure resilience to future stressors, which requires that...
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Current Status of Coral Reef Fish Abundances at Pulau Bidong and Nearby Islands, South China Sea Using Stereo-Diver Operated Video System
Tropical coral reef fish assemblages in the South China Sea (SCS) have not been well-studied; thus, this research investigated the species richness...
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Heat, human, hydrodynamic, and habitat drivers measured from space correlate with metrics of reef health across the South Pacific
Diver assessments can reveal much about coral reef condition, but fieldwork is expensive and challenging. To address this limitation to effective...
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Cryptic diversity of Eviota (Teleostei: Gobiidae) and their habitat use in the shallow waters of Okinawa Island
Eviota , known as dwarf gobies, is a diverse genus of marine fishes comprising more than 120 species found throughout the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Previous...
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Drivers of reef fish assemblage structure in a mosaic of Brazilian marine habitats
Fishes are conspicuous and threatened components of reef ecosystems. Understanding the role of the variables that shape their assemblages is...
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Early successional trajectory of benthic community in an uninhabited reef system three years after mass coral bleaching
Severe thermal stress events occurring on the backdrop of globally warming oceans can result in mass coral mortality. Tracking the ability of a reef...
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Broad-scale spatial distribution and microhabitat-scale substrate association of seven angelfish species (family Pomacanthidae) in an Okinawan coral reef
Species-specific spatial distribution in relation to environmental characteristics underpins the species diversity of coral reef fishes. This study...
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Habitat and morphological characteristics affect juvenile mortality in five coral reef damselfishes
The abundance and distribution of demersal fishes rely on larvae successfully settling from the pelagic environment to a benthic habitat and their...
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Molecular fossils in reefal carbonates and sponges of the deep fore reef of Mayotte and Mohéli, Comoro Islands, western Indian Ocean
Microbial carbonates are common components of Quaternary tropical coral reefs. Previous studies revealed that sulfate-reducing bacteria trigger...
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Temperate functional niche availability not resident-invader competition shapes tropicalisation in reef fishes
Temperate reefs are at the forefront of warming-induced community alterations resulting from poleward range shifts. This tropicalisation is...
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Parasitism in reef fish communities: evaluating the roles of host traits, habitat use, and phylogeny on infection by Scaphanocephalus (Trematoda)
Parasites represent a critically understudied component of reef communities—a knowledge gap that has become more evident as infectious diseases...
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New evidence of grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) displaying chafing behaviors on whale shark (Rhincodon typus) individuals in the Maldives
Sharks rubbing against ocean floor or rocks are common events in marine environments, while instances of interspecific shark chafing behavior have...
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Experimental Investigation of Damage Evolution Characteristics of Coral Reef Limestone Based on Acoustic Emission and Digital Volume Correlation Techniques
The variation of pore structure results in a significant difference in physical–mechanical properties within coral reef limestone (CRL). The acoustic...
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Age, growth and maturation of the brown surgeonfish Acanthurus nigrofuscus at Okinawa-jima Island, Japan
Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Acanthuridae), a common fish on the coral reefs of the Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan, is considered to be important for...
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The formation of an open atoll in strike slip-fault setting: new insight from Maratua Island, Kalimantan-Indonesia
This study aims at reconstructing the mechanism explaining the formation of the V-shaped open atoll of Maratua Island. The reconstruction was...
