Given the global degradation of shallow-water coral reef ecosystems resulting from
anthropogenic activities, mesophotic coral reef ecosystems (MCEs) are gaining attention …

Scleractinians are a group of calcified anthozoan corals, many of which populate shallow-
water tropical to subtropical reefs. Most of these corals calcify rapidly and their success on …

Scleractinian (hard) corals are fundamental to the geomorphology, biodiversity, and
structure of coral reef ecosystems (Goreau 1963, Hoegh-Guldberg 2004, Pratchett et al …

THE UNEP WoRLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE 15 the b1od1vers1ty
assessment and pol, cy 1mplementat1on arm of the Un, ted Nations Environment …

The evolutionary success of reef-building corals in nutrient-poor tropical waters is attributed
to endosymbiotic dinoflagellates. The algae release photosynthetic products to the coral …

The term hermatypic, as widely used in the literature of extant and fossil Scleractinia,
includes, by definition (Wells 1933), the confusing generalization of equating reef-building …

Deep-sea corals were discovered over a century ago, but it is only over recent years that
focused efforts have been made to explore the history of the oceans using the geochemistry …

We mapped and briefly describe the surficial geology of selected examples of shelf-edge
reefs (50–120 m deep) of the southeastern United States, which are apparently derived from …

Two‐thirds of all known coral species live in waters that are deep, dark, and cold. Yet due to
the difficulty of researching them in their natural environment, their biology and ecology are …

Color variants and behavior of scamp, Mycteroperca phenax, and gag, M. microlepis, are
described from 64 submersible dives made on reef structures at depths between 20 and 100 …