Structural complexity provided by the living coral reef framework is the basis of the rich and
dynamic biodiversity in coral reefs. In many cases today, the reduction in habitat complexity …

In India, intertidal seaweed resources are widely investigated and utilized for various
applications, whereas reef-associated seaweed resources and their impacts on corals are …

Photographic evidence of some important coral diseases (black band disease, black
disease/Terpios hoshinota, white syndrome, pink line syndrome, pink spots, invertebrate …

Sri Lanka, an island nation located off the southeast coast of the Indian sub-continent, has
an unappreciated diversity of corals and other reef organisms. In particular, knowledge of …

Coral reefs are biodiversity and productivity hotspots where space limitation makes
interactions between organisms inevitable. Biodiversity loss alters these interactions …

Macroalgae supersede corals in the reefs worldwide, converting the coral-dominant systems
into algal-dominant ones. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) released by macroalgae play a …

Scleractinian corals are vulnerable to a range of environmental disturbances, but generally
suffer the highest rates of mortality during early life-history stages, ie, from larval settlement …

The global climate change is known to involve in the decline of biodiversity from different
ecosystems, including coral reefs worldwide. The spatial distribution of reef associated flora …

Interspecific competition between corals and macroalgae is a common phenomenon on
coral reefs, and its impacts on the cellular structure of corals are not well studied. Field …

Coral reefs are the most diverse, complex, and unique of all the marine ecosystems and are
rightfully known as “rainforests of the ocean”. The word 'coral'itself is Middle English, derived …