The future looks grim for coral reefs. Warmer oceans, overfishing, pollution, and gradually acidifying waters have destroyed more than a third of the world’s shallow tropical coral reefs. Just this ...

An innovative mathematical analysis of global coral reef fisheries offers hope for sustainable management of multispecies and artisanal fishing, especially in the global South Elisabeth King Two ...

The Living Architecture of Our Oceans " These incredible structures are built by tiny animals called polyps that secrete ...

The invasion of predatory lionfish in the Caribbean region poses yet another major threat there to coral reef ecosystems -- a new study has found that within a short period after the entry of lionfish ...

Jodie L. Rummer receives funding from the Australian Research Council. While we don’t know if fish populations declined from the 2016 bleaching disaster, one 2018 study did show the types of fish ...

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As the climate fluctuated over the past 3 million years, stable coral reefs provided a safe haven for tropical fish species, leading to the vast diversity of reef fishes seen today. David Mouillot at ...

International law has failed to protect coral reefs and tropical fish from being decimated by a growing collectors market, but US reforms can lead the way towards making the trade more responsible, ...

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Science Bulletins: Fish Biodiversity Protects Coral Reefs from AMNH on Vimeo. In tropical coral reefs, plant-eating fish and other herbivores support the dominance of the living coral by eating ...

This is a big deal. Coral reefs support about a quarter of all marine biodiversity in just 1 percent of the ocean’s space. And so tropical reef fish, among the most vulnerable organisms when it comes ...