High‐throughput environmental sensing technologies are increasingly central to global
monitoring of the ecological impacts of human activities. In particular, the recent boom in …

This article analyses the pressures on seahorses and explores conservation responses. It
focuses on seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) but also considers pipefishes and seadragons …

Information is characterized as the reduction of uncertainty and by a change in the state of a
receiving organism. Thus, organisms can acquire information about their environment that …

Soundscape ecology is a rapidly growing field with approximately 93% of all scientific
articles on this topic having been published since 2010 (total about 610 publications since …

Global energy demand continues to grow and tidal and wave energy generation devices
can provide a significant source of renewable energy. Technological developments in …

Pantropical degradation of coral reefs is prompting considerable investment in their active
restoration. However, current measures of restoration success are based largely on coral …

There is evidence that ambient underwater sound is used by some pelagic larval reef fishes
and decapods as a guide to direct them toward coastal areas. It would be advantageous to …

Following a planktonic dispersal period of days to months, the larvae of benthic marine
organisms must locate suitable seafloor habitat in which to settle and metamorphose. For …

Nearly all demersal teleost marine fishes have pelagic larval stages lasting from several
days to several weeks, during which time they are subject to dispersal. Fish larvae have …

Coral reefs provide a wide array of ecosystem services and harbor some of the highest
levels of biodiversity on the planet, but many reefs are in decline worldwide. Tracking …