Marine invertebrates and macrophytes are sensitive to the toxic effects of oil. Depending on
the intensity, duration and circumstances of the exposure, they can suffer high levels of initial …

Larval production and recruitment underpin the maintenance of coral populations, but these
early life history stages are vulnerable to extreme variation in physical conditions …

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited
sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever increasing interest in work in …

The Kimberley coast situated in north-western Australia has been recognised as one of the
world's least human-impacted coastal areas as well as being rich in wilderness and …

Any assessment of tropical reef ecosystems should extend beyond a hard coral inventory to
include soft corals and other sessile benthic organisms. We assessed octocoral …

Growing evidence has suggested that ocean warming could cause a decline in marine
phytoplankton productivity. However, studies in tropical waters have discovered that …

Sponge taxonomy can be challenging as many groups exhibit extreme morphological
plasticity induced by local environmental conditions. Foliose keratose sponges of the sub …

Cyanobacterial symbionts may enable sponges to play a critical role in bentho-pelagic
coupling, recycling nutrients at the benthic surface and providing a key requirement for …

Rates and direction of movement in the sand dollar Peronella lesueuri were measured in
summer and winter in Cockburn Sound, a large coastal embayment in south-western …

The number of deep-water (> 80 m) octocoral species recorded from Australian waters has
more than tripled from 135 to 457 following six surveys undertaken between 1997 and 2008 …