The persistence of populations of marine organisms depends on the success of the dual
processes of reproduction and recruitment. The production of offspring alone is …

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

Unceasing climate change and anthropogenic impacts on coral reefs worldwide lead the
needs for augmenting adaptive potential of corals. Currently, the most successful approach …

Competition among sessile organisms is a major process on coral reefs, and is becoming
more important as anthropogenic disturbances cause shifts in dominance to non-reef …

The accelerating marks of climate change on coral-reef ecosystems, combined with the
recognition that traditional management measures are not efficient enough to cope with …

Since 1892, it has been widely assumed that somatic mutations are evolutionarily irrelevant
in animals because they cannot be inherited by offspring. However, some nonbilaterians …

Surviving after settlement through the first year of life is a recognised bottleneck in up-
scaling reef coral restoration. Incorporating spatial refugia in settlement devices has the …

Background Chimeras are genetically mixed entities resulting from the fusion of two or more
conspecifics. This phenomenon is widely distributed in nature and documented in a variety …

The problem of plant individuality is something which has vexed botanists throughout the
ages, with fashion swinging back and forth from treating plants as communities of individuals …

In recent years, a few colonial marine invertebrates have shown intracolonial genetic
variability, a previously unreported phenomenon. Intracolonial genetic variability describes …