[HTML][HTML] The application gap: Genomics for biodiversity and ecosystem service management

M Heuertz, SB Carvalho, J Galindo, B Rinkevich… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The conservation of biodiversity from the genetic to the community levels is fundamental for
the continual provision of ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that ecosystems provide to …

Finding genes and pathways that underlie coral adaptation

O Selmoni, LK Bay, M Exposito-Alonso, PA Cleves - Trends in Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
Mass coral bleaching is one of the clearest threats of climate change to the persistence of
marine biodiversity. Despite the negative impacts of bleaching on coral health and survival …

Scalable semantic 3D mapping of coral reefs with deep learning

J Sauder, G Banc‐Prandi, A Meibom… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs are among the most diverse ecosystems on our planet, and essential to the
livelihood of hundreds of millions of people who depend on them for food security, income …

Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D imaging: The openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network

DC Blackburn, DM Boyer, JA Gray, J Winchester… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The impact of preserved museum specimens is transforming and increasing by three-
dimensional (3D) imaging that creates high-fidelity online digital specimens. Through …

Close-range underwater photogrammetry for coral reef ecology: a systematic literature review

T Remmers, A Grech, C Roelfsema, S Gordon… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
Close-range underwater photogrammetry, hereafter referred to as photogrammetry, is
rapidly emerging as a new standard in measuring and monitoring coral reefs due to its …

[HTML][HTML] Global phylogenomic assessment of Leptoseris and Agaricia reveals substantial undescribed diversity at mesophotic depths

JC Gijsbers, N Englebert, KE Prata, M Pichon… - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Mesophotic coral communities are increasingly gaining attention for the unique
biological diversity they host, exemplified by the numerous mesophotic fish species that …

Evolutionary responses of a reef-building coral to climate change at the end of the last glacial maximum

J Zhang, ZT Richards, AAS Adam… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Climate change threatens the survival of coral reefs on a global scale, primarily through
mass bleaching and mortality as a result of marine heatwaves. While these short-term effects …

[HTML][HTML] Potentialities of the combined use of underwater fluorescence imagery and photogrammetry for the detection of fine-scale changes in marine bioconstructors

C Castagnetti, P Rossi, S Righi, S Cattini… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Marine communities are facing both natural disturbances and anthropogenic stressors.
Bioconstructor species are endangered by multiple large-scale and local pressures and the …

Closing the gap between existing large‐area imaging research and marine conservation needs

OS McCarthy, K Contractor, WF Figueira… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging technology has immense potential to increase the scale and efficiency of marine
conservation. One such technology is large‐area imaging (LAI), which relies on structure …

Some reef-building corals only disperse metres per generation

KE Prata, P Bongaerts, JM Dwyer, H Ishida… - …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the dispersal potential of different species is essential for predicting recovery
trajectories following local disturbances and the potential for adaptive loci to spread to …