Listening forward: approaching marine biodiversity assessments using acoustic methods

TA Mooney, L Di Iorio, M Lammers… - Royal Society …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecosystems and the communities they support are changing at alarmingly rapid rates.
Tracking species diversity is vital to managing these stressed habitats. Yet, quantifying and …

Coral reef population genomics in an age of global change

ML Pinsky, RD Clark, JT Bos - Annual Review of Genetics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Coral reefs are both exceptionally biodiverse and threatened by climate change and other
human activities. Here, we review population genomic processes in coral reef taxa and their …

Half a century of rising extinction risk of coral reef sharks and rays

CS Sherman, CA Simpfendorfer, N Pacoureau… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Sharks and rays are key functional components of coral reef ecosystems, yet many
populations of a few species exhibit signs of depletion and local extinctions. The question is …

Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity

S Weigmann - Journal of Fish Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, batoids and chimaeras) of the
world is presented. As of 7 November 2015, the number of species totals 1188, comprising …

Increasing thermal stress for tropical coral reefs: 1871–2017

JM Lough, KD Anderson, TP Hughes - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical corals live close to their upper thermal limit making them vulnerable to unusually
warm summer sea temperatures. The resulting thermal stress can lead to breakdown of the …

DNA barcoding and metabarcoding of standardized samples reveal patterns of marine benthic diversity

M Leray, N Knowlton - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Documenting the diversity of marine life is challenging because many species are cryptic,
small, and rare, and belong to poorly known groups. New sequencing technologies …

[图书][B] The sixth extinction: An unnatural history

E Kolbert - 2014 - books.google.com
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of
life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently …

Patterns, dynamics and consequences of microplastic ingestion by the temperate coral, Astrangia poculata

RD Rotjan, KH Sharp, AE Gauthier… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Microplastics (less than 5 mm) are a recognized threat to aquatic food webs because they
are ingested at multiple trophic levels and may bioaccumulate. In urban coastal …

Symbiodinium genomes reveal adaptive evolution of functions related to coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis

H Liu, TG Stephens, RA González-Pech… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Symbiosis between dinoflagellates of the genus Symbiodinium and reef-building corals
forms the trophic foundation of the world's coral reef ecosystems. Here we present the first …

Comparing environmental DNA metabarcoding and underwater visual census to monitor tropical reef fishes

A Polanco Fernández, V Marques, F Fopp… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis is a revolutionary method to monitor marine
biodiversity from animal DNA traces. Examining the capacity of eDNA to provide accurate …