In an era of human activities, global environmental changes, habitat loss and species
extinction, conservation strategies are a crucial step toward minimizing biodiversity loss. For …

Marine sponges belonging to the phylum Porifera (Metazoa), evolutionarily the oldest
animals are the single best source of marine natural products. The present review presents …

Spatial and temporal patterns of future coral bleaching are uncertain, hampering global
conservation efforts to protect coral reefs against climate change. Our analysis of daily …

When you did me the honor of asking me to fill your presidential chair, I accepted perhaps
without duly considering the duties of the president of a society, founded largely to further …

The diversity, frequency, and scale of human impacts on coral reefs are increasing to the
extent that reefs are threatened globally. Projected increases in carbon dioxide and …

The worldwide decline of coral reefs calls for an urgent reassessment of current
management practices. Confronting large-scale crises requires a major scaling-up of …

There is general agreement among scientists that biodiversity is under assault on a global
basis and that species are being lost at a greatly enhanced rate. This article examines the …

Resource managers and scientists from disparate disciplines are rising to the challenge of
understanding and moderating human impacts on marine ecosystems. Traditional barriers …

The human population and its consumption profoundly affect the Earth's ecosystems,. A
particularly compelling measure of humanity's cumulative impact is the fraction of the …

Global climate change is having devastating effects on habitat structure in coralreef
ecosystems owing to extreme environmental sensitivities and consequent bleaching of …