Coral reefs in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) represent a distinctive marginal ecosystem shaped by strong physicochemical gradients, periodic warming events, and biogeographical isolation. A ...

The history and biogeography of fishes on coral reefs / David R. Bellwood, Peter C. Wainwright -- Ecomorphology of feeding in coral reef fishes / Peter C. Wainwright, David R. Bellwood -- Age-based ...

Researchers emphasized that today's climate disruption differs in speed.

image: Coral reefs are in decline, but their collapse can still be avoided with local and global action. That's according to findings reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 9 based ...

Coral reef ecosystems are among the most diverse and productive marine habitats, underpinned by complex interactions between reef‐building corals, sponges, algae and other sessile organisms. Sponges ...

An international expedition including University of Sydney researchers has pieced together the clearest picture yet of how ...

Natural disasters can devastate a region, abruptly killing the species that form an ecosystem's structure. But how this transpires can influence recovery. While fires scorch the landscape to the ...

Coral reefs may seem like paradise, but they are being degraded by a range of global and local factors, including climate change, poor water quality, and overfishing. New research reveals that ...

Coral reefs face serious threats primarily arising from climate change, unsustainable fishing, and pollution. To better understand the underlying processes, a multidisciplinary series of studies is ...

Coral reefs may seem like paradise, but they are being degraded by a range of global and local factors, including climate change, poor water quality, and overfishing. New research reveals that ...

What events caused the Great Barrier Reef to become what it is today, specifically over the course of the last six to eight thousand years, or just after the last Ice Age? This is what a recent study ...