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Carolina Bracho-Villavicencio, Helena Matthews-Cascon, Marc García-Durán, Xavier Vélez, Nicola Lago, Laura Busquier and Sergio Rossi
Suitable colonization materials are a pursued target in marine restoration programs. Known for making nutrients available while reducing pollutants and the risk of pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems, Biochar and Bioferment materials of organic origin we...
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Panayota Koulouri, Athanasios Mogias and Costas Dounas
Recreational SCUBA diving is currently a nature-based USD multibillion tourism industry across the globe. However, degradation of many recreational diving destinations all over the world due to ?soft? ecotourists necessitates the adoption of innovative m...
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Xu Wang, Ke Qu, Jia Men, Liangbin Zhang, Junjie Li and Rongze Gao
Dredging materials from reef flats have become an important source of sand and aggregates for meeting the infrastructure needs of coral-lined shores in subtropical and tropical regions, especially for low-lying atoll islands. Dredging at the reef flats c...
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Carlos Jimenez, Louis Hadjioannou, Antonis Petrou, Vasilis Andreou and Andreas Georgiou
Artificial reefs are considered one of the alternative methods in fisheries management, used in order to enhance stocks and marine biodiversity in general. A number of biotic and abiotic parameters influence the fouling communities? formation on artifici...
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Carlos Jimenez, Louis Hadjioannou, Antonis Petrou, Vasilis Andreou, Andreas Georgiou
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Artificial reefs are considered one of the alternative methods in fisheries management, used in order to enhance stocks and marine biodiversity in general. A number of biotic and abiotic parameters influence the fouling communities? formation on artifici...
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Brianna LeFebre, Phil Saye and James S. Henkel
Coral reef rehabilitation in the Caribbean is of major ecological and economic importance in the West Indies. Local organizations in Grenada constructed a cement pyramid artificial reef structure with rugosity (termed ?The Pyramid?) and placed a number o...
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Jiadong Fan, Cuiping Kuang, Huixin Liu, Dan Wang, Jiantao Liu, Gang Wang and Qingping Zou
Recurrent green tide has been widely studied due to its severe damage to coastal ecosystem. Jinmeng Bay, a popular resort in northeastern China, has suffered from green tide events since 2015, after the constructions of artificial islands and submerged r...
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Tamar Shabi, Yaron Ziv, Reuven Yosef and Nadav Shashar
Global degradation of coral reefs is reflected in the destruction of shelters in various environments and threatens the stability of marine ecosystems. Artificial shelters offer an alternative, but their design could be more challenging due to limited kn...
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Alejandro Carmona-Rodríguez, Carlos Antón, Miguel-Ángel Climent, Pedro Garcés, Vicente Montiel and Alfonso A. Ramos-Esplá
The ecological succession has been widely studied by means of biofouling assemblages among different substrates, and mainly targeted in early stages on artificial ones. The present study focuses on biofouling that colonizes carbonated structures, a mater...
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Le Duc Quyen and Jun Myoung Choi
The presence of microplastics has been reported in most marine environments. Their accumulation can affect the marine ecosystem, and their consumption by small organisms of various sizes can indirectly affect human beings who consume them. Recent observa...
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Anderson B. Mayfield, Alexandra C. Dempsey, Chii-Shiarng Chen and Chiahsin Lin
We have developed a machine-learning approach for identifying climate-resilient corals in the Solomon Islands.
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Ioannis Rallis, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Marta Florido, Francisco Sedano, Avgi Procopiou, Melina Chertz-Bynichaki, Emmanouela Vernadou, Wanda Plaiti, Panayota Koulouri, Costas Dounas, Vasilis Gerovasileiou and Thanos Dailianis
The colonization of artificial structures by benthic organisms in the marine realm is known to be affected by the general trophic patterns of the biogeographical zone and the prevailing environmental traits at the local scale. The present work aims to pr...
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Seongsik Park, Jong Ryol Kim, Young Ryun Kim, Seokjin Yoon and Kyunghoi Kim
In this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of artificial reefs (ARs) made from concrete, steel, and steel slag on the concentrations of As, Cd, Cr6+, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn in marine ecosystems. We conducted a field investigation of the concentrat...
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Azizi Ali, Muhammad Ruzi Abdullah, Che Din Mohd Safuan, Aminudin Muhammad Afiq-Firdaus, Zainudin Bachok, Mohd Fadzil Mohd Akhir, Roslan Latif, Azri Muhamad, Tan Hock Seng, Adina Roslee and Khaira Ismail
Since the 1970s, artificial reef (AR) deployment has been one of the common approaches to augment the local production of coastal fish in Malaysia. However, there is a lack of strategy to assess and evaluate the success of pre-deployed AR. Realizing the ...
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Somi Jung, Than Van Chau, Minju Kim and Won-Bae Na
Macroalgae are invaluable constituents of marine forest environments and important sources of material for human needs. However, they are currently at risk of severe decline due to global warming and negative anthropogenic factors. Restoration efforts fo...
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Bárbara F. V. Vieira, José L. S. Pinho, Joaquim A. O. Barros and José S. Antunes do Carmo
Coastal areas accommodate a great part of large metropolises as they support a great amount of economic and leisure activities. The attraction of people to coastal zones is contributing to an intense and continuous urbanization of these areas, while the ...
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Jamaluddin Fitrah Alam, Tamiji Yamamoto, Tetsuya Umino, Shinya Nakahara and Kiyonori Hiraoka
With the aim of simultaneously improving fishery production and utilizing forestry and oyster fishery wastes, three types of artificial timber reefs (ATRs)?constructed from simple timbers, timbers with oyster shells from local oyster farms, and timbers w...
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Lars Seidelin, Magnus Wahlberg and Marianne Holmer
New methods are needed to attract more interest to natural sciences among the public and young people. We established an underwater laboratory by placing cameras on an artificial reef (a sunken ferry) to create a new and inspiring way of teaching marine ...
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Kate Gormley, Faron McLellan, Christopher McCabe, Claire Hinton, Joseph Ferris, David I. Kline and Beth E. Scott
In the UK, some of the oldest oil and gas installations have been in the water for over 40 years and have considerable colonisation by marine organisms, which may lead to both industry challenges and/or potential biodiversity benefits (e.g., artificial r...
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