Coral reef ecological pump for gathering and retaining nutrients and exporting carbon: a review and perspectives

L Zhou, Y Tan, L Huang - Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2023 - Springer
How coral reefs with high productivity and biodiversity can flourish in oligotrophic tropical
oceans has inspired substantial research on coral reef ecosystems. Increasing evidence …

Impacts of microplastics on scleractinian corals nearshore Liuqiu Island southwestern Taiwan

YC Lim, CW Chen, YR Cheng, CF Chen… - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Seawater, sediments, and three genera of wild scleractinian corals were collected from four
coral reef areas nearshore Liuqiu Island, southwestern Taiwan. Abundance, characteristics …

Denitrification Aligns with N2 Fixation in Red Sea Corals

A Tilstra, YC El-Khaled, F Roth, N Rädecker… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Denitrification may potentially alleviate excess nitrogen (N) availability in coral holobionts to
maintain a favourable N to phosphorous ratio in the coral tissue. However, little is known …

Contrasting hydrodynamic regimes of submerged pinnacle and emergent coral reefs

GF Galbraith, BJ Cresswell, MI McCormick, TC Bridge… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Hydrodynamics on coral reefs vary with depth, reef morphology and seascape position.
Differences in hydrodynamic regimes strongly influence the structure and function of coral …

The effects of light intensity and flow speed on biogeochemical variability within a fringing coral reef in Onna‐son, Okinawa, Japan

MS Rintoul, TA Courtney, JL Dohner… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming and ocean acidification are driving declines in seawater dissolved oxygen
(DO) concentrations and pH. Predicting how these changes will affect shallow, near‐shore …

Complete and rapid regeneration of fragments from the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea

M Ostendarp, J Plewka, J Flathmann… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea increasingly occurs in many (sub-) tropical coastal
habitats such as mangrove forests, seagrass meadows, and coral reefs. Its mixotrophic …

A carbon cycling model shows strong control of seasonality and importance of sponges on the functioning of a northern Red Sea coral reef

N van Hoytema, JM de Goeij, NA Kornder, Y El-Khaled… - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Coral reefs in the northern Red Sea experience strong seasonality. This affects reef carbon
(C) cycling, but ecosystem-wide quantification of C fluxes in such reefs is limited. This study …

Substrate availability may limit the response of tropical bacterioplankton biomass to warming

XAG Morán, ML Calleja, F Baltar, L Silva… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The response of heterotrophic bacterioplankton to the addition of macrophytic dissolved
organic matter (DOM) and temperature was investigated in the Red Sea. We added 40 μ mol …

Diazotroph-derived nitrogen assimilation strategies differ by scleractinian coral species

V Meunier, S Bonnet, M Benavides… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Reef-building corals generally thrive in nutrient-poor tropical waters, where among other
elements, nitrogen (N) availability often limits primary productivity. In addition to their close …

Phytoplankton biomass and the hydrodynamic regime in NEOM, Red Sea

N Papagiannopoulos, DE Raitsos, G Krokos… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
NEOM (short for Neo-Mustaqbal) is a $500 billion coastal city megaproject, currently under
construction in the northwestern part of the Red Sea, off the coast of Tabuk province in Saudi …