Ocean acidification (OA) is a major threat to marine calcifying organisms. This manuscript
gives an overview of the physiological effects of acidification on reef-building corals from a …

The red king crab (RKC) is a large invasive species inhabiting bottom communities in the
Barents Sea. Larval stages of RKC play an important role in determining the spread and …

Ocean acidification (OA) has resulted in global-scale changes in ocean chemistry, which
can disturb marine organisms and ecosystems. Despite its extensively populated coastline …

Background Microbes play vital roles across coral reefs both in the environment and inside
and upon macrobes (holobionts), where they support critical functions such as nutrition and …

Every petroleum-processing plant produces sewage sludge containing several types of
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The degradation of PAHs via physical, biological …

The crucial role of crustose coralline algae (CCA) in inducing hard coral larval settlement
and ensuring the replenishment of coral reefs is widely accepted, and so are the negative …

Sponges are ecologically important benthic organisms with many important functional roles.
However, despite increasing global interest in the functions that sponges perform, there has …

Positive interactions are important drivers of community structure and ecosystem function
worldwide. This is perhaps best exemplified on coral reefs, where facilitative interactions are …

The recent decline of coral health and substantial loss of coral cover along Florida's Coral
Reef (FCR) results from local stressors such as degraded water quality and disease …

Macroalgae can modify coral reef community structure and ecosystem function through a
variety of mechanisms, including mediation of biogeochemistry through photosynthesis and …