Fine-scale heterogeneity reveals disproportionate thermal stress and coral mortality in thermally variable reef habitats during a marine heatwave

KT Brown, G Eyal, SG Dove, KL Barott - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Increasing ocean temperatures threaten coral reefs globally, but corals residing in habitats
that experience high thermal variability are thought to be better adapted to survive climate …

[HTML][HTML] Surveying the deep: A review of computer vision in the benthos

C Trotter, HJ Griffiths, RJ Whittle - Ecological Informatics, 2025 - Elsevier
The analysis of image data for benthic biodiversity monitoring is now commonplace within
the domain of marine ecology. Whilst advances in imaging technologies have allowed for …

Mesophotic coral ecosystems of French Polynesia are hotspots of alpha and beta generic diversity for scleractinian assemblages

G Pérez‐Rosales, M Pichon, H Rouzé… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Revealing how diversity varies across the depth gradient is key for understanding the
role of mesophotic coral ecosystems in the functioning of coral reefs. We quantitatively …

Fine-scale time series surveys reveal new insights into spatio-temporal trends in coral cover (2002–2018), of a coral reef on the Southern Great Barrier Reef

C Roelfsema, EM Kovacs, J Vercelloni, K Markey… - Coral Reefs, 2021 - Springer
Reef monitoring programmes often focus on limited sites, predominantly on reef slope areas,
which do not capture compositional variability across zones. This study assessed spatial …

Mesophotic depths hide high coral cover communities in French Polynesia

G Pérez-Rosales, A Hernández-Agreda… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid decline of shallow coral reefs has increased the interest in the long-understudied
mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs). However, MCEs are usually characterised by rather …

[HTML][HTML] An enhanced large-scale benthic reflectance retrieval model for the remote sensing of submerged ecosystems in optically shallow waters

Y Wang, X He, P Shanmugam, Y Bai, T Li… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Shallow water benthic habitats have been significantly degraded and seriously threatened
by intensifying climate changes and anthropogenic stressors. Benthic reflectance (R b λ) of …

Increasing trust in new data sources: crowdsourcing image classification for ecology

E Santos‐Fernandez, J Vercelloni… - International …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Crowdsourcing methods facilitate the production of scientific information by non‐experts.
This form of citizen science (CS) is becoming a key source of complementary data in many …

A doubling of stony coral cover on shallow forereefs at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize from 2014 to 2019

LX de Pablo, JS Lefcheck, L Harper, VJ Paul… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
To better understand the decline of one of earth's most biodiverse habitats, coral reefs, many
survey programs employ regular photographs of the benthos. An emerging challenge is the …

Fine‐scale interplay between decline and growth determines the spatial recovery of coral communities within a reef

J Vercelloni, C Roelfsema, EM Kovacs… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As coral reefs endure increasing levels of disturbance, understanding recovery patterns of
reef‐building hard corals is paramount to assessing the sustainability of these ecosystems …

Assessing long-term coral reef degradation in Indonesia's Tiworo strait marine conservation area using remote sensing and rapid appraisal for fisheries approaches

LOM Yasir Haya, B Sadarun, M Tadjudah… - Modeling Earth Systems …, 2022 - Springer
In Indonesia, the coral reef ecosystem in the Tiworo Strait Conservation Area (TSCA) faces
various threats of natural and anthropogenic stressors that can damage the coral reef …