The role of seagrass meadows, mangrove forests, salt marshes and reed beds as nursery areas and food sources for fishes in estuaries

AK Whitfield - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2017 - Springer
Each year millions of larval and 0+ juvenile fishes are recruited into estuarine fish
populations around the world. For several decades the roles of littoral aquatic and emergent …

Remote sensing of coral reefs for monitoring and management: a review

JD Hedley, CM Roelfsema, I Chollett, AR Harborne… - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
Coral reefs are in decline worldwide and monitoring activities are important for assessing
the impact of disturbance on reefs and tracking subsequent recovery or decline. Monitoring …

Relationships between structural complexity, coral traits, and reef fish assemblages

ES Darling, NAJ Graham, FA Januchowski-Hartley… - Coral Reefs, 2017 - Springer
With the ongoing loss of coral cover and the associated flattening of reef architecture,
understanding the links between coral habitat and reef fishes is of critical importance. Here …

Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions

A Vergés, E McCosker, M Mayer‐Pinto… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Temperate reefs from around the world are becoming tropicalised, as warm‐water species
shift their distribution towards the poles in response to warming. This is already causing …

[图书][B] Cephalopod behaviour

RT Hanlon, JB Messenger - 2018 - books.google.com
With their large brains, elaborate sense organs and complex behaviour, cephalopods are
among the world's most highly evolved invertebrates. This second edition summarises the …

Ocean acidification can mediate biodiversity shifts by changing biogenic habitat

JM Sunday, KE Fabricius, KJ Kroeker… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
The effects of ocean acidification (OA) on the structure and complexity of coastal marine
biogenic habitat have been broadly overlooked. Here we explore how declining pH and …

Relative importance of coral cover, habitat complexity and diversity in determining the structure of reef fish communities

V Komyakova, PL Munday, GP Jones - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The structure of coral reef habitat has a pronounced influence on the diversity, composition
and abundance of reef-associated fishes. However, the particular features of the habitat that …

A research review of interventions to increase the persistence and resilience of coral reefs

National Academies of Sciences, Division on Earth… - 2019 - books.google.com
Coral reef declines have been recorded for all major tropical ocean basins since the 1980s,
averaging approximately 30-50% reductions in reef cover globally. These losses are a result …

[HTML][HTML] The ecological significance of giant clams in coral reef ecosystems

ML Neo, W Eckman, K Vicentuan, SLM Teo… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Giant clams (Hippopus and Tridacna species) are thought to play various
ecological roles in coral reef ecosystems, but most of these have not previously been …

Appraisal of visual assessments of habitat complexity and benthic composition on coral reefs

SK Wilson, NAJ Graham, NVC Polunin - Marine Biology, 2007 - Springer
Visual assessments of topographic habitat structure and benthos on coral reefs were
appraised using quantitative data collected from 16 replicate surveys within each of 21 sites …