Marine natural products have proven, over the last half‐century, to be effective biological
modulators. These molecules have revealed new targets for cancer therapy as well as …

Diverse ecologically important metabolites, such as allelochemicals, infochemicals and
volatile organic chemicals, are involved in marine organismal interactions. Chemically …

Biodiversity is a highly complex and abstract ecological concept. Even though it is not one
physical entity, it influences human well-being in multiple ways, mostly indirectly. While …

The ecosystem services concept provides both an analytical and communicative tool to
identify and quantify the link between human welfare and the environment, and thus to …

Although it has far-reaching consequences for humanity, attention to climate change impacts
on the ocean lags behind concern for impacts on the atmosphere and land. Understanding …

Complex microbiomes reside in marine sponges and consist of diverse microbial taxa,
including functional guilds that may contribute to host metabolism and coastal marine …

Biodiversity is the measure of the variation of lifeforms in a given ecological system.
Biodiversity provides ecosystems with the robustness, stability, and resilience that sustains …

Accelerated exploration of minerals in the deep sea over the past decade has raised the
likelihood that commercial mining of the deep seabed will commence in the near future …

Marine natural products (NP) are unanimously acknowledged as the 'blue gold'in the urgent
quest for new pharmaceuticals. Although corals are among the marine organisms with the …

Marine sponges have been a prolific source of unique bioactive compounds that are
presumed to act as a deterrent to predation. Many of these compounds have potential …