Coral recruitment describes the addition of new individuals to populations, and it is one of
the most fundamental demographic processes contributing to population size. As many coral …

Despite 22% of the world's coastal regions experiencing some degree of light pollution, and
biologically important artificial light at night (ALAN) reaching large portions of the seafloor …

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

Reef-building corals are critically important species that are threatened by anthropogenic
stresses including climate change. In attempts to understand corals' responses to stress and …

Restoration methods that seed juvenile corals show promise as scalable interventions to
promote population persistence through anthropogenic warming. However, challenges …

Many reef-building corals participate in a mass-spawning event that occurs yearly on the
Great Barrier Reef. This coral reproductive event is one of earth's most prominent examples …

Light provides a widely abundant energy source and valuable sensory cue in nature. Most
animals exposed to light have photoreceptor cells and in addition to eyes, there are many …

Opsins, light-sensitive G protein-coupled receptors, have been identified in corals but their
properties are largely unknown. Here, we identified six opsin genes (acropsins 1–6) from a …

Recruitment of coral larvae on reefs is crucial for individual survival and ecosystem integrity
alike. Coral larvae can detect and respond to a wide range of biotic and abiotic cues …

The popularity of ecotourism in Kish Island located off the southern coast of Iran in the
Persian Gulf has increased over the last 30 years with a large development of a SCUBA …