Structural complexity provided by the living coral reef framework is the basis of the rich and
dynamic biodiversity in coral reefs. In many cases today, the reduction in habitat complexity …

The worldwide decline of coral reefs has renewed interest in coral communities at the edge
of environmental limits because they have the potential to serve as resilience hotspots and …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding, a technique for retrieving multispecies DNA
from environmental samples, can detect a diverse array of marine species from filtered …

Hotspots of tropical marine biodiversity are areas that harbour disproportionately large
numbers of species compared to surrounding regions. The richness and location of these …

Crown-of-thorns starfish (CoTS) are a pervasive coral predator prone to population
outbreaks that have damaged coral reefs across Australia and the wider Indo-Pacific. CoTS …

Diversity patterns are determined by biogeographic, energetic, and anthropogenic factors,
yet few studies have combined them into a large‐scale framework in order to decouple and …

Patterns of movement of marine species can reflect strategies of reproduction and dispersal,
species' interactions, trophodynamics, and susceptibility to change, and thus critically inform …

Bioeroding sponges play a central role in carbonate cycling on corals reefs. They may
respond differently to habitat deterioration than many other benthic invertebrates, because at …

Coral reefs throughout the tropics have experienced large declines in the abundance of
scleractinian corals over the last few decades, and some reefs are becoming functionally …

The San Jose Declaration formally established the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor
(CMAR) in 2004, a voluntary regional cooperation mechanism created by the coastal States …