The biodiversity of coral reefs is dominated by invertebrates. Many of these invertebrates live
in close association with scleractinian corals, relying on corals for food, habitat or settlement …

Climate change is threatening tropical reefs across the world, with most scientists agreeing
that the current changes in climate conditions are occurring at a much faster rate than in the …

Structured sampling designs are important in the assessment of environmental impacts of
variable ecological systems. Recent developments have provided a useful framework …

There is limited documentation on the status and dynamics of fished marine shelled mollusc
species in many countries. Some of the challenges are due to obscure documentation of …

Marine molluscs represent an estimated 23% of all extant marine taxa, but research into
their conservation status has so far failed to reflect this importance, with minimal inclusion on …

Boring patterns of microbial endoliths were analyzed in bivalve shells collected from
different environments in the Northern Bay of Safaga on the Red Sea, Egypt. A total of 20 …

Tropical coastal benthic communities will change in species composition and relative
dominance due to global (eg, increasing water temperature) and local (eg, increasing …

Global warming is leading to range shifts of marine species, threatening the structure and
functioning of ecological communities and human populations that rely on them. The largest …

Few works have examined the relative contributions of habitat variables to the distribution of
coral reef urchins. In the present study, the spatial distribution of two common urchin species …

The Abrolhos reefs are the largest and the richest coral reefs of Brazil, where corals,
crustose coralline algae (CCA), and vermetids are the main reef-building organisms. In the …