The worldwide decline of coral reefs calls for an urgent reassessment of current
management practices. Confronting large-scale crises requires a major scaling-up of …

Many coral reefs have been degraded over the past two to three decades through a
combination of human and natural disturbances. In Jamaica, the effects of overfishing …

This work is the most comprehensive analysis and compilation of information on coral reef in
the Caribbean over the past 40 years. Although the report clearly shows that there has been …

This article identifies ecological goods and services of coral reef ecosystems, with special
emphasis on how they are generated. Goods are divided into renewable resources and reef …

Feeding Ecology of Fish establishes a comprehensive framework for the variable ecological
patterns exemplified by feeding fishes. The author, a former president of the American …

A keystone species is one whose effect is large, and disproportionately large relative to its
abundance nance of thcir eommunities, because they typically providc the major energy …

We review the effects of fishing on benthic fauna, habitat, diversity, community structure and
trophic interactions in tropical, temperate and polar marine environments and consider …

Coral reef bleaching, the whitening of diverse invertebrate taxa, results from the loss of
symbiotic zooxanthellae and/or a reduction in photosynthetic pigment concentrations in …

Seagrasses are among the most productive shallow water ecosystems, serving a diverse
assemblage of fish and invertebrates. Tropical seagrass communities are dominated by the …

In recent decades, the cover of fleshy macroalgae has increased and coral cover has
decreased on most Caribbean reefs. Coral mortality precipitated this transition, and the …