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Mesophotic zone as refuge: acclimation and in-depth proteomic response of yellow gorgonians in the Mediterranean sea
The intensification of warming-induced mass-mortalities in invertebrate populations including in temperate regions is a critical global issue....
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Mesophotic vs. shallow water reefs: ecosystem connectivity in the Silurian of Gotland
The Lower Silurian Visby Beds (ca. 430 Ma) exposed on the island of Gotland (Sweden) yield the oldest so far described MCE’s (mesophotic coral...
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Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of Cuba
This chapter reviews the current knowledge regarding Cuba’s mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs). The first studies of MCEs in Cuba were conducted by...
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Invertebrate sounds from photic to mesophotic coral reefs reveal vertical stratification and diel diversity
Although mesophotic coral ecosystems account for approximately 80% of coral reefs, they remain largely unexplored due to their challenging...
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Quantifying sponge communities from shallow to mesophotic depths using orthorectified imagery
Mesophotic coral reefs are estimated to represent up to 80% of the total areal coverage for coral reefs worldwide. Quantifying mesophotic coral reef...
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Holobiont responses of mesophotic precious red coral Corallium rubrum to thermal anomalies
Marine heat waves (MHWs) have increased in frequency and intensity worldwide, causing mass mortality of benthic organisms and loss of biodiversity in...
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Styles and rates of mesophotic reef accretion on a Caribbean insular slope
Structural framework is fundamental to the concept of a coral-algal reef. However, our current understanding of reef framework is based largely upon...
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Scleractinian diversity in the upper mesophotic zone of Ludao (Taiwan): a museum collection with new records from Taiwanese waters
Taiwan’s shallow coral reef habitats (0–30 m) and their scleractinian fauna are well-studied but its mesophotic zone (30–90 m) remains underexamined....
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Novel mesophotic kelp forests in the Galápagos archipelago
Kelps are among the most studied groups of macroalgae globally, as they are large foundation species that form some of the world’s most productive...
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Sponge holobionts shift their prokaryotic communities and antimicrobial activity from shallow to lower mesophotic depths
In this study, we used 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing to investigate prokaryotic community composition of the Caribbean sponges Xestospongia muta ...
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Rapid shift in benthic assemblages following coral bleaching at an upper mesophotic habitat in Taiwan
Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs; typically, 30–150 m depths) have traditionally been considered potential refuges for shallow-water organisms, but...
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Tropical seamounts as step**-stones for coral reef fishes: range extensions and new regional distributions from mesophotic ecosystems in the Coral Sea, Australia
Seamounts and remote oceanic islands serve as valuable natural laboratories in which to study patterns and processes in marine biodiversity. A...
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Mesophotic reefs are not refugia for neither taxonomic nor functional diversity of reef fishes
Mesophotic reefs, defined as reefs between 30 m and 150 m, have been less investigated than their shallower counterparts. Yet, more protected from...
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Fish sounds of photic and mesophotic coral reefs: variation with depth and type of island
Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems remain largely unexplored. The aim of this study was to determine how the acoustic fish biodiversity varied depending on...
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Sponge-associated microbes in the twilight zone of Curaçao
Mesophotic reefs, located in the "Twilight Zone" of the ocean, are coral reefs that exist in relatively deep waters ranging from approximately 30 to...
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Shallow and mesophotic colonies of the coral Stylophora pistillata share similar regulatory strategies of photosynthetic electron transport but differ in their sensitivity to light
Acclimation of corals to light is known to rely on multiple strategies working at different timescales. Among them, photosynthetic alternative...
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How are single-shot photographs orthorectified?: Comment on “Quantifying sponge communities from shallow to mesophotic depths using orthorectified imagery” (Lesser et al. 2023)
For many decades, marine ecologists have used the point-intercept method to estimate the percentage cover of organisms on topographically complex...
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Prevalence and extent of coral diseases in shallow and mesophotic reefs of the Southwestern Atlantic
Coral reef ecology has advanced in many fields, but disease patterns across depth gradients remain unclear. By comparing the prevalence and extent of...
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Differing lesion recovery rates of two Caribbean stony coral species across a shallow water to mesophotic depth gradient suggest different sensitivity to repeated disturbance
Following major stress events such as storms, bleaching events, or disease outbreaks, surviving corals must regenerate tissue to recover. We aimed to...
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Shore-fish assemblage structure in the central Philippines from shallow coral reefs to the mesophotic zone
Connectivity between shallow coral reefs and adjacent deeper habitats may be crucial to reef ecosystem stability. However, deeper habitats such as...
