The world's coral reefs are threatened by the cumulative impacts of global climate change
and local stressors. Driven largely by a desire to understand the interactions between corals …

Emerging chemical contaminants in the marine ecosystem represent a threat to the
environment and also to human health due to insufficient knowledge about their toxicity and …

Energy sources of corals, ultimately sunlight and plankton availability, change dramatically
from shallow to mesophotic (30–150 m) reefs. Depth-generalist corals, those that occupy …

Climate change and warming ocean temperatures are a threat to coral reef ecosystems.
Since the 1980s, there has been an increase in mass coral bleaching and associated coral …

The urbanization of the shores of the Gulf of Aqaba has exposed the marine environment
there, including unique fringing coral reefs, to strong anthropogenic light sources. Here we …

The majority of corals acquire their photo-endosymbiont Symbiodinium from environmental
sources anew each generation. Despite the critical role that environmental availability of …

Although it is well established that different coral species have different susceptibilities to
thermal stress, the reasons behind this variation are still unclear. In this study, 384 samples …

The present article revises the major topics related to fish and coral reproduction. In
particular after a short review of the ornamental trade and the destructive fishing methods …

Coral species are better able to survive bleaching events with heterotrophic feeding, which
raises the level of lipid provisions and coral resilience against stress episodes. We report …

Corals have the ability to synthesize various pigments, responsible for their characteristic
vivid coloration. Most coral host pigments are green fluorescent protein (GFP)-like pigments …