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Asa Oren, Ofer Berman, Reem Neri, Ezri Tarazi, Haim Parnas, Offri Lotan, Majeed Zoabi, Noam Josef and Nadav Shashar
Coral reefs are three-dimensional biogenic structures that provide habitat for plenty of marine organisms; yet, coral reefs are deteriorating worldwide. Hence, it is essential to identify suitable substitutes for such coral services. This study examines ...
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Yaniv Shmuel, Yaron Ziv and Baruch Rinkevich
Canopies of branching corals harbor a wide range of sessile- and mobile-dwelling species that benefit from the physical compartments and the micro-environments created by the complex three-dimensional structures. Although different compartments within ca...
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Giovanni Chimienti, Attilio Di Nisio and Anna M.L. Lanzolla
The pink sea fan Eunicella verrucosa is a habitat-forming octocoral living in the East Atlantic and in the Mediterranean Sea where, under proper circumstances, it can form large populations known as coral forests. Although these coral forests represent v...
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Atsuko Fukunaga, John H. R. Burns, Brianna K. Craig and Randall K. Kosaki
Long-term ecological monitoring of reef fish populations often requires the simultaneous collection of data on benthic habitats in order to account for the effects of these variables on fish assemblage structure. Here, we described an approach to benthic...
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Francesco Immordino, Mattia Barsanti, Elena Candigliota, Silvia Cocito, Ivana Delbono and Andrea Peirano
Sustainable and ecosystem-based marine spatial planning is a priority of Pacific Island countries basing their economy on marine resources. The urgency of management coral reef systems and associated coastal environments, threatened by the effects of cli...
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Markus Diesing and Terje Thorsnes
Cold-water coral reefs are rich, yet fragile ecosystems found in colder oceanic waters. Knowledge of their spatial distribution on continental shelves, slopes, seamounts and ridge systems is vital for marine spatial planning and conservation. Cold-water ...
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Etty Riani
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The sandfish (Holothuria scraba) is one of biological resources which have high economic value. However, due to over fishing, aquaculture management of this species needs to be attempted. The aim of this research is to look for the sandfish?s biological ...
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Saharsh Barve, Jody M. Webster and Rohitash Chandra
Environmental damage has been of much concern, particularly in coastal areas and the oceans, given climate change and the drastic effects of pollution and extreme climate events. Our present-day analytical capabilities, along with advancements in informa...
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Grant Smith, Ertan Yesilnacar, Junsheng Jiang and Christian Taylor
Accurate and efficient species-based marine habitat assessment is in great demand for the marine environment. Remote sensing techniques including airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) derived bathymetry can now be used, in concert with suitable gr...
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Kaitano Dube
Oceans play a vital role in socioeconomic and environmental development by supporting activities such as tourism, recreation, and food provision while providing important ecosystem services. However, concerns have been raised about the threat that climat...
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Minxing Dong, Jichao Yang, Yushan Fu, Tengfei Fu, Qing Zhao, Xuelei Zhang, Qinzeng Xu and Wenquan Zhang
The soft coral order Alcyonacea is a common coral found in the deep sea and plays a crucial role in the deep-sea ecosystem. This study aims to predict the distribution of Alcyonacea in the western Pacific Ocean using four machine learning-based species d...
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Yuanjie Li, Zuozhi Chen and Jun Zhang
To improve the overall understanding of the fish diversity and spatial patterns of major coral reefs in the South China Sea, fish assemblage composition, dominant species, biodiversity indices, and multivariate analysis of community structure were report...
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Thomas J. F. Goreau and Paulus Prong
Severely eroded beaches on low lying islands in Indonesia were grown back in a few months?believed to be a record?using an innovative method of shore protection, Biorock electric reef technology. Biorock shore protection reefs are growing limestone struc...
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Thomas J. F. Goreau and Paulus Prong
Severely eroded beaches on low lying islands in Indonesia were grown back in a few months?believed to be a record?using an innovative method of shore protection, Biorock electric reef technology. Biorock shore protection reefs are growing limestone struc...
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Martina Canessa, Ilaria Amedeo, Giorgio Bavestrello, Pier Panzalis and Egidio Trainito
Mass mortality events and anthropogenic impacts affecting Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1826) have been increasingly documented during the last decades. These impacts have enhanced the settling of epibiont organisms on injured colonies. This epibiosis was ...
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Giannis Saitis, Anna Karkani, Eleni Koutsopoulou, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Satoru Kawasaki and Niki Evelpidou
Beachrocks are a window to the past environmental, geological, sedimentological and morphological conditions that were dominant in the coastal zone during their formation. Furthermore, beachrocks have the ability to reduce coastal erosion impact on sandy...
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Shashank Keshavmurthy, Chao-Yang Kuo, Ya-Yi Huang, Rodrigo Carballo-Bolaños, Pei-Jei Meng, Jih-Terng Wang and Chaolun Allen Chen
Coral reefs in the Anthropocene are being subjected to unprecedented levels of stressors, including local disturbances?such as overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution?and large-scale destruction related to the global impacts of climate change?suc...
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Nishanthi Marian Perera
AbstractPigeon islands National Park (PINP) is one of the three Marine National Parks in Sri Lanka with coral reefs being the major habitat protected. A study was undertaken at PINP with the objective of understanding the challenges encountered and oppor...
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Andre DeGeorges, Thomas J. Goreau and Brian Reilly
This paper discusses land-sourced pollution with an emphasis on domestic sewage in the Caribbean in relation to similar issues in the Indian Ocean and Pacific. Starting on a large-scale in the 1980s, tropical Atlantic coastlines of Florida and Caribbean ...
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