Dredging, river plumes and natural resuspension events can release sediments into the
water column where they exert a range of effects on underlying communities. In this review …

The importance of hybridization in the evolution of plant species is widely accepted, but its
contributions to animal species evolution remain less recognized. Here we review evidence …

Coral-reef ecosystems are experiencing frequent and severe disturbance events that are
reducing global coral abundance and potentially overwhelming the natural capacity for reefs …

Trait-based approaches advance ecological and evolutionary research because traits
provide a strong link to an organism's function and fitness. Trait-based research might lead …

Sexual reproduction by scleractinian reef corals is important for maintaining coral
populations and evolutionary processes. The ongoing global renaissance in coral …

Staghorn corals (genus Acropora) are the most obvious and important corals on coral reefs
throughout the world, providing much of the beauty and variety seen on the reefs. This …

The discovery of multi-species synchronous spawning of scleractinian corals on the Great
Barrier Reef in the 1980s stimulated an extraordinary effort to document spawning times in …

The first scleractinians, progenitors of modern corals, began to appear 240 million years
ago; by the late Jurassic (150 Ma) most families of modern corals had evolved and begun …

Les données empiriques et expérimentales montrent que la reproduction des cnidaires est
plus variable qu'on ne l'avait cru précédemment et plusieurs déductions au sujet des …

Publisher Summary The chapter presents the adaptations of reef corals to physical
environmental stress. The ability of corals to adapt to environmental stress is fundamental to …