Abstract Aim The Red Sea is characterised by a unique fauna and historical periods of
desiccation, hypersalinity and intermittent isolation. The origin and contemporary …

A simple habitat assessment score (HAS) was designed to assess habitat complexity across
several different shallow tropical marine habitats including sandy patches, algal beds …

Sets of artificial reefs were replicated in 5 bays off Tortola in the British Virgin Islands to
investigate the effects of habitat complexity on fish assemblages. Increasing percentage …

The current checklist provides for each species of the Red Sea its records in the Gulf of
Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea main basin and its general distribution. This new checklist of …

Habitat associations underpin species ecologies in high-diversity systems. Within tropical,
shallow water coral reefs, the relationship between fishes and corals is arguably the most …

In contrast to the abundance of literature on the relationship between fish assemblages and
habitat structure in the upper 30 m of coral reefs, the deeper (> 40 m) parts of coral reefs are …

The invasion of the Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans into the western Atlantic, Caribbean
Sea, and Gulf of Mexico is the fastest ever documented for a marine fish. Few studies have …

The semi-enclosed Gulf of Aqaba is under high pressure by urban and industrial pollution,
shipping and port activities as well as tourism. Off the Jordanian Red Sea coast, the trophic …

Marine protected area (MPA) effectiveness is contingent on understanding key ecological
patterns and processes at appropriate spatial scales and may depend upon maintaining …

Understanding the processes that shape patterns of genetic structure across space is a
central aim of landscape genetics. However, it remains unclear how geographical features …