Coral reefs in southeast Florida have experienced severe losses in coral cover and diversity in recent decades, primarily due to disease outbreaks and......
The capacity for individuals to move long distances can profoundly influence how species are affected by localised threatening processes. Previous stu......
The present study aims at assessing the thermal tolerance of the black coral Antipathella wollastoni (Gray, 1857), which forms extensive forests in mu......
Substratum preferences and contact interactions among sessile organisms can be a major determinant of biotic gradients in the structure of benthic com......
The process of coral recruitment is crucial to the functioning of coral reef ecosystems and recovery of coral assemblages following disturbances. Fish......
Over the past decade, an abundance of 16S rRNA gene surveys have provided microbiologists with data regarding the prokaryotes present in a coral-assoc......
Coral-associated microbial symbionts, particularly dinoflagellates from the family Symbiodiniaceae, play a significant role in corals' ability to surv......
A primary objective of coral restoration is to foster the development of large, sexually reproductive colonies to reseed degraded reefs. Practitioners......
Most coral species of known reproductive traits are broadcast spawners, with about 65% being hermaphrodites that envelop their gametes together in ooc......
Sun corals (Tubastraea spp.) have invaded the SW Atlantic coast in the 1980s, saturating vertical walls at heavily impacted areas. More recently, the ......
Structural framework is fundamental to the concept of a coral-algal reef. However, our current understanding of reef framework is based largely upon s......
Reef-building corals host diverse dinoflagellate algal symbionts (Family Symbiodiniaceae) whose identity can influence host thermotolerance and whose ......
Dispersal, the movement of individuals away from their natal location to another location, is a basic driver of ecological and evolutionary processes.......
