Stony corals, the engines and engineers of reef ecosystems, face unprecedented threats
from anthropogenic environmental change. Corals are holobionts that comprise the …

The recognition that all macroorganisms live in symbiotic association with microbial
communities has opened up a new field in biology. Animals, plants, and algae are now …

The occurrence of UV-filters in the environment has raised concerns over potentially
adverse impacts on corals. In this study, the concentrations of 13 UV-filters and 11 hormones …

Ever since Darwin's early descriptions of coral reefs, scientists have debated how one of the
world's most productive and diverse ecosystems can thrive in the marine equivalent of a …

There has been a rapid increase in public, political, and scientific interest regarding the
impact of organic ultraviolet (UV) filters to coral reefs. Such filters are found in sunscreens …

Marine sponges are able to process a variety of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P),
and silicon (Si) dissolved compounds, in addition to the particulate C, N, and P obtained …

Non‐random community changes are becoming more frequent in many ecosystems. In coral
reefs, changes towards communities dominated by other than hard corals are increasing in …

Corals and macroalgae release large quantities of dissolved organic matter (DOM), one of
the largest sources of organic matter produced on coral reefs. By rapidly taking up DOM and …

Coral reefs are declining worldwide. Yet, critical information remains unknown about the
basic biological, ecological, and chemical processes that sustain coral reefs because of the …

We studied the removal of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and bacterioplankton by the
encrusting sponges Halisarca caerulea, Mycale microsigmatosa and Merlia normani in coral …