Despite substantial conservation efforts, the loss of ecosystems continues globally, along
with related declines in species and nature's contributions to people. An effective ecosystem …

Non‐random community changes are becoming more frequent in many ecosystems. In coral
reefs, changes towards communities dominated by other than hard corals are increasing in …

Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

Ecosystems worldwide are under increasing threat. We applied a standardized method for
assessing the risk of ecosystem collapse, the International Union for Conservation of Nature …

Ecosystem monitoring is central to effective management, where rapid reporting is essential
to provide timely advice. While digital imagery has greatly improved the speed of underwater …

Pantropical degradation of coral reefs is prompting considerable investment in their active
restoration. However, current measures of restoration success are based largely on coral …

Substrate complexity is an essential metric of reef health and a strong predictor of several
ecological processes connected to the reef, including disturbance, resilience, and …

Technological innovations that improve the speed, scale, reproducibility, and accuracy of
monitoring surveys will allow for a better understanding of the global decline in tropical reef …

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Structural complexity plays a key role in the functioning of coral reef ecosystems. Reef-
building corals are major contributors to this complexity, providing shelter and food for …