Marine foundation species are the biotic basis for many of the world's coastal ecosystems,
providing structural habitat, food, and protection for myriad plants and animals as well as …

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 …

One of the keys to the success of modern and ancient reef ecosystems is the phenomenon
of photosymbiosis. Photosymbiotic corals can thrive down to the limits of the photic zone …

Understanding range limits is critical to predicting species responses to climate change.
Subtropical environments, where many species overlap at their range margins, are cooler …

Reef-building corals show a marked decrease in total species richness from the tropics to
high latitude regions. Several hypotheses have been proposed to account for this pattern in …

Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals are moderately well-known for shallow reef habitats, but
not for mesophotic depths (> 30 m) that are relatively difficult to access. Mesophotic habitats …

Understanding how tropical corals respond to temperatures is important to evaluating their
capacity to persist in a warmer future. We studied the common Pacific coral Pocillopora over …

Understanding how range-edge populations will respond to climate change is an urgent
research priority. Here, we used a phylogenetic community ecology approach to examine …

Knowing the responses of high-latitude corals to thermal impacts will be critical to predicting
the possibility for range expansion of reefs provoked by climate change. We, therefore …

Our knowledge of the ability of coral reefs to face contemporary challenges disregards the
wide variety of benthic communities (BCs) that could be associated with contrasted …