Seasonal calcification of the coral Acropora digitifera from a subtropical marginal Okinawa reef under ocean acidification

Coral Reefs - Coral calcification is affected by the decrease in aragonite saturation state (Ωarag) caused by ocean acidification (OA). However, OA effects are modulated by other environmental...     

An integrated morpho-molecular approach to delineate species boundaries of Millepora from the Red Sea

Coral Reefs - Fire corals of the hydrocoral genus Millepora provide an important ecological role as framework builders of coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific and the Atlantic. Recent works have...     

Oxygen: the universal currency on coral reefs

Coral Reefs - Coral reefs are suffering unprecedented declines worldwide. Most studies focus on stressors such as rising temperatures, nutrient pollution, overfishing, and ocean acidification as...     

Structure of gorgonian epifaunal communities in Ecuador (eastern Pacific)

Coral Reefs - Coral reefs have high biodiversity and are important as ecosystem engineers, providing microhabitats for a large number of organisms. This study examines the patterns of diversity,...     

Species traits as indicators of coral bleaching

Coral Reefs - Coral bleaching as a response to increased sea surface temperature is regularly surveyed, but our understanding of species-specific differences in response is limited. We compiled...     

Unusual shallow water Devonian coral community from Queensland and its recent analogues from the inshore Great Barrier Reef

Coral Reefs - Palaeozoic coral communities were dominated by two extinct coral groups: Tabulata and Rugosa. Whilst they are not closely related to modern Scleractinia, they are morphologically...     

Morpho-molecular traits of Indo-Pacific and Caribbean Halofolliculina ciliate infections

Coral Reefs - Coral diseases are emerging as a major threat to coral reefs worldwide, and although many of them have been described, knowledge on their epizootiology is still limited. This is the...     

Priority coral conservation areas under global warming in the Amami Islands,Southern Japan

Coral Reefs - Coral reef ecosystems are highly sensitive to climate change. The Amami Islands in Southern Japan were selected as the study area. It is important to select areas that should be given...     

Heat stress differentially impacts key calcification mechanisms in reef-building corals

Coral Reefs - Coral reefs are increasingly threatened by climate change, mass bleaching events and ocean acidification (OA). Coral calcification, a process that is critical to build and maintain...     

Ecological consequences of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease in the Turks and Caicos Islands

Coral Reefs - Coral reefs are suffering global declines due to climate change, natural disasters, pollution, and diseases. Coral disease events have increased in frequency and severity in the past...     

The Landscape of Leadership in Environmental Governance: a Case Study from Solomon Islands

Sustainability science suggests a core set of factors that foster significant change in governance, with leaders and entrepreneurs often identified as the main instigators. Discussions of leadership in governance transformations often focus on key charismatic people, underplaying contestation and the complex landscape of leadership. We present an empirical study that uses a participatory network mapping approach to provide a broader examination of leadership in integrated conservation and development. We use the Coral Triangle Initiative in Solomon Islands as an example of potential transformation in environmental governance across multiple objectives. Our analysis shows that actants, other than key individuals, enact leadership. We illustrate that a different suite of actants are providing leadership for each of the three Coral Triangle Initiative objectives. Actants can enact leadership by positively and negatively influencing different goals to varying extents. Our study illustrates the potential of broader and more nuanced understandings of leadership in environmental governance.     

The reef building coral Stylophora pistillata uses stored carbohydrates to maintain ATP levels under thermal stress

Coral Reefs - Coral reefs are on the brink of collapse from global warming and associated coral bleaching. Coral bleaching is the loss of algal symbionts from the coral tissue. The reduction in...     

Life history of the silvertip shark Carcharhinus albimarginatus from Papua New Guinea

Coral Reefs - Growth and maturity of the silvertip shark Carcharhinus albimarginatus from Papua New Guinea were estimated to form the basis of future population assessments. Samples were collected...     

New Eustomias Species (Melanostomiidae) from New Caledonia

Journal of Ichthyology - From the Coral Sea, Eustomias natalisa sp. n. species was described, which belongs to the Dinematochirus subgenus and is closest to E. paxtoni. It differs from all species...     

Linking climate variability and growth in coral skeletal records from the Great Barrier Reef

Coral Reefs - The remoteness of the northern Great Barrier Reef makes observations of environmental change and coral health sparse, but provides opportunities for paleoclimate and paleoecology...     

Benthic habitat and fish assemblage structure from shallow to mesophotic depths in a storm-impacted marine protected area

Coral Reefs - Baseline ecological studies of mesophotic coral ecosystems are lacking in the equatorial Indo-West Pacific region where coral reefs are highly threatened by anthropogenic and...     

A new species of Asclepias (Asclepiadaceae)from Utah

Asclepias welshii, restricted to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes of southern Utah, is described and illustrated. Its relationship to other species of seriesRoseae is discussed.     

Growth impacts in a changing ocean: insights from two coral reef fishes in an extreme environment

Coral Reefs - Determining the life-history consequences for fishes living in extreme and variable environments will be vital in predicting the likely impacts of ongoing climate change on reef fish...     

Ocean acidification alters the thermal performance curves of brooded larvae from the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis

Coral Reefs - Establishing the thermal reaction norm of coral larvae under elevated pCO2 is crucial to anticipate how larval dispersal and population maintenance may be affected by future climate...     

Mono- and multispecies biofilms from a crustose coralline alga induce settlement in the scleractinian coral Leptastrea purpurea

Coral Reefs - Microorganisms have been reported to induce settlement in various marine invertebrate larvae but their specificity of inductive capacities for the settlement of coral larvae remains...