A central goal of animal ecology is to observe species in the natural world. The cost and
challenge of data collection often limit the breadth and scope of ecological study. Ecologists …

For over three decades, scientists have conducted heat-stress experiments to predict how
coral will respond to ocean warming due to global climate change. However, there are often …

Understanding the drivers of net coral reef calcium carbonate production is increasingly
important as ocean warming, acidification, and other anthropogenic stressors threaten the …

Benthic primary producers in marine ecosystems may significantly alter biogeochemical
cycling and microbial processes in their surrounding environment. To examine these …

Microplastics are emerging contaminants and widespread in the ocean, but their impacts on
coral reef ecosystems are poorly understood, and in situ study is still lacking. In the present …

Species morpho-functional traits provide general and predictable rules to understand the
dynamics of ecological communities; therefore, considering species identity is crucial in …

Coral reefs are deteriorating under climate change as oceans continue to warm and acidify
and thermal anomalies grow in frequency and intensity. In vitro experiments are widely used …

The measurement of coral surface area is critical to normalising a suit of physiologically
significant parameters to greater understand how corals interact with the surrounding …

Climate change threatens the survival of scleractinian coral from exposure to concurrent
ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation; how corals can potentially adapt to this trio …

In order to understand physiological, ecological and biological processes, it is often crucial
to determine an organism's volume and surface area (SA). Most of the available methods …