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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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Zhen Yang, Guozhang Fan, Wei Yan, Xuefeng Wang, Guoqing Zhang, Zhili Yang, Zuofei Zhu, Yuanze Zhang, Huai Cheng, Hongxun Tian, Li Li and Qiang Zhang
During the Miocene, several reefs formed in the Beikang Basin, South China Sea, which may be potential targets for hydrocarbon exploration. This is due to the environment that developed as a result of the collision, splitting, and splicing of the Nansha ...
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Zhen Yang, Guangxue Zhang, Songfeng Liu, Xuebin Du, Lifei Wang, Wei Yan and Lei Huang
In this study, high-resolution seismic profiles and well data provided a good opportunity for better understanding the reefs and carbonate platforms in the Wan?an Basin, southwest of the South China Sea, and also provided valuable information for the oil...
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Jianting Guo, Yongbin Zhang, Xiangqian Bian and Sheng Xu
As the technical and theoretical research of floating breakwaters is becoming increasingly mature, the floating breakwaters are now being utilized, especially in offshore reefs. Therefore, it is of practical significance to study the hydrodynamic perform...
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Yibing Li, Xinyu Liu, Weiwei Chen and Liang Yi
Biogenic reefs and carbonate platforms are valuable natural resources, playing an important role in modulating the global climate and in carbon cycles through biological processes. Biogenic reefs in the Xisha (Paracel) Islands began in the late Oligocene...
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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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Guoqi Han, Jon Chamberlain, Colin Webber and Charles Hannah
The world?s largest living glass sponge reefs, located in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound off British Columbia, are impacted by bottom contact fishing gear. The existing Adaptive Management Zones (AMZs) for the protection of these reefs were ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Matthew W. Becker, Francine M. Cason and Benjamin Hagedorn
Groundwater discharge from high tropical islands can have a significant influence on the biochemistry of reef ecosystems. Recent studies have suggested that a portion of groundwater may underflow the reefs to be discharged, either through the reef flat o...
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Jinchao Wang, Qijun Guo, Wei Chen and Houceng Liu
In order to more accurately realize the automatic identification and quantitative characterization of coral reef multi-scale pore structure, this paper has carried out such research. On the basis of using multiple information acquisition technology, it c...
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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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Jianhua Kang, Hala F. Mohamed, Xinming Liu, Lulu Pei, Shuhong Huang, Xiangyuan Lin, Xinqing Zheng and Zhaohe Luo
Cyanobacteria occupy an extraordinarily diverse array of ecological niches in coral reefs because they play multifaceted roles, including primary carbon and nitrogen fixation, calcification, nutrient cycling, and oxygen production, as well as coral reef ...
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Chung-Chi Chen, Hung-Yen Hsieh, Anderson B. Mayfield, Chia-Ming Chang, Jih-Terng Wang and Pei-Jie Meng
Southern Taiwan?s Kenting National Park is a popular retreating place for many domestic and international tourists, with increasing tourist numbers potentially over-burdening the coastal ecosystems. To better understand human impacts, a long-term ecologi...
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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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