Aquaculture of coral offers an alternative to wild harvest for the ornamental trade and shows
considerable promise for restoring reefs and preserving biodiversity. Here, we compare …

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to the persistence of coral reefs. Sustained and
ongoing increases in ocean temperatures and acidification are altering the structure and …

Ocean warming under climate change threatens coral reefs directly, through fatal heat stress
to corals and indirectly, by boosting the energy of cyclones that cause coral destruction and …

In response to multiple stressors, coral reef health has declined in recent decades, with reefs
exhibiting reduced living coral and structural complexity, and a concomitant rise in the …

Understanding the potential for coral adaptation to warming seas is complicated by
interactions between symbiotic partners that define stress responses and the difficulties of …

It has become almost paradigmatic in the coral reef literature that fishing-induced reductions
of parrotfish abundance cause benthic phase shifts from coral to macroalgal dominance …

An influential paradigm in coral reef ecology is that fishing causes trophic cascades through
reef fish assemblages, resulting in reduced herbivory and thus benthic phase shifts from …

Networks of no-take marine reserves (NTMRs) are widely advocated for preserving
exploited fish stocks and for conserving biodiversity. We used underwater visual surveys of …

Structural complexity underpins the ecological functioning of coral reefs. However, rising
ocean temperatures and associated coral bleaching threaten the structural integrity of these …

As anthropogenic and natural disturbances intensify, there is mounting concern about the
loss of functionally important or unique species. Functional redundancy, or the presence of …