Mass mortalities due to disease outbreaks have recently affected major taxa in the oceans.
For closely monitored groups like corals and marine mammals, reports of the frequency of …

Disturbance to biotic systems is usually studied on two very different scales. Ecologists by
necessity limit their studies to short-lived, localized perturbations such as the pounding of …

Echinoderm mass mortality events shape marine ecosystems by altering the dynamics
among major benthic groups. The sea urchin Diadema antillarum, virtually extirpated in the …

Abstract In 2018, the Mexican Caribbean coast received a massive influx of pelagic
Sargassum spp. that accumulated and decayed on beaches producing organic …

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 …

This book breaks new ground with the integration of geography, oceanography, plankton
and benthic biology, as well as fish, to present a comprehensive account of the ecology of …

Populations of the ecologically important sea urchin Diadema antillarum suffered severe
mass mortalities throughout the Caribbean. This mortality was first observed at Panama in …

Echinoderms play a key role in structuring many marine ecosystems and are notorious for
large population density variations in so‐called “outbreak” or “dieoff” events. In a review of …

In 1983–1984, the sea urchin Diadema antillarum suffered mass mortality throughout the
Caribbean, Florida, and Bermuda. The demise of this herbivore contributed to a phase shift …

Certain species of echinoderms have broad-scale effects on entire coral-reef communities,
more so than any other particular species of invertebrate or fish. The echinoderms with the …