The importance of coral reefs (CR) within marine ecosystems has become widely
recognized. Although shallow CR are not as abundant in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) as in …

This report provides a detailed assessment of the status of and threats to the world's coral
reefs. It evaluates threats to coral reefs from a wide range of human activities, and includes …

Published with ISME, ITTO and project partners FAO, UNESCO-MAB, UNEP-WCMC and
UNU-INWEH This atlas provides the first truly global assessment of the state of the world's …

Abstract In 2018, the Mexican Caribbean coast received a massive influx of pelagic
Sargassum spp. that accumulated and decayed on beaches producing organic …

Since the mass mortality of the urchin Diadema antillarum in 1983, parrotfishes have
become the dominant grazer on Caribbean reefs. The grazing capacity of these fishes could …

Aim To understand why and when areas of endemism (provinces) of the tropical Atlantic
Ocean were formed, how they relate to each other, and what processes have contributed to …

Reef fish spawning aggregations are attractive and often lucrative to fish but particularly
vulnerable to fishing, with many cases of declines or extirpations. While awareness of the …

Mangroves dominate undisturbed natural shorelines of many sub-tropical and tropical
regions, yet their utilization by fishes is poorly understood. To provide the first …

The collapse of Caribbean coral reefs has been attributed in part to historic overfishing, but
whether fish assemblages can recover and how such recovery might affect the benthic reef …

Determining how ecosystem function and services are related to diversity is necessary for
predicting the consequences of diversity loss and for setting goals and priorities for marine …