Over the past decade, our understanding of the Indian Ocean has advanced through
concerted efforts toward measuring the ocean circulation and air–sea exchanges, detecting …

Given the recent trend towards establishing very large marine protected areas (MPAs) and
the high potential of these to contribute to global conservation targets, we review outcomes …

Ocean warming and acidification threaten the future growth of coral reefs. This is because
the calcifying coral reef taxa that construct the calcium carbonate frameworks and cement …

Positive relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) highlight the
importance of conserving biodiversity to maintain key ecosystem functions and associated …

Coral reef ecosystems are among the first to fundamentally change in structure due to
climate change, which leads to questioning of whether decades of knowledge regarding reef …

Declining coral cover and loss of structural complexity are widely reported on today's coral
reefs. While coral loss frequently triggers changes in coral reef fish assemblage structure …

Tropical ectotherms are hypothesized to be vulnerable to environmental changes, but
cascading effects of organismal tolerances on the assembly and functioning of reef fish …

Climate change is transforming coral reefs, threatening supply of essential dietary
micronutrients from small-scale fisheries to tropical coastal communities. Yet the nutritional …

Ecosystem functions underpin productivity and key services to humans, such as food
provision. However, as the severity of environmental stressors intensifies, it is becoming …

Extreme climatic events can reshape the functional structure of ecological communities,
potentially altering ecological interactions and ecosystem functioning. While these shifts …