The importance of coral reefs (CR) within marine ecosystems has become widely
recognized. Although shallow CR are not as abundant in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) as in …

Mesophotic coral reefs are estimated to represent up to 80% of the total areal coverage for
coral reefs worldwide. Quantifying mesophotic coral reef community structure and function …

Coral reef habitats surrounding Cuba include relatively healthy, well-developed shallow and
mesophotic (30–150 m) scleractinian communities at the cross-currents of the Tropical …

The lionfish is an exotic invasive fish native to the Indo-Pacific, which is established in the
western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Lionfish can affect native fishes and …

Understanding the diversity and ecology of deep-reef fishes is challenging. Due to intensive
and widely dispersed sampling, the Greater Caribbean (GC) fauna of species found on …

Highly divergent estimates of benthic cover of sponges have been reported for Caribbean
mesophotic reefs (90-100 m) based on quadrat point-intercept data collection using 2 …

While recent technical breakthroughs have enabled advances in the description of reefs
down to 150 m, the structure and depth zonation of deep-reef communities below 150 m …

Despite general declines in coral reef ecosystems in the tropical western Atlantic, some
reefs, including mesophotic reefs (30–150 m), are hypothesized to function as coral refugia …

Depth-generalist coral holobionts inhabit shallow (0–30 m) and mesophotic (30–150 m) reef
zones but may exhibit genetic specialization as a result of adaptations to environmental …

Although mesophotic coral reef ecosystems (MCEs) are widespread and diverse, they
remain largely unexplored. The Caribbean MCEs are among the most studied in the world …