With rubble predicted to increase on coral reefs worldwide, we review the physical,
biological, and ecological dynamics of rubble beds, with a focus on how rubble generation …

Overexploitation is one of the principal threats to coral reef diversity, structure, function, and
resilience [1, 2]. Although it is generally held that coral reef fisheries are unsustainable [3–5] …

Land-based nutrient pollution represents a significant human threat to coral reefs globally.
We examined this phenomenon in shallow seagrass and coral reef communities between …

We review the evidence for multiple ecological states and the factors that create ecological
resilience in coral reef ecosystems. There are natural differences among benthic …

The relative sea-level history of several atolls in the central and eastern Indian Ocean,
including the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Chagos Archipelago, and the Maldives–Laccadive …

Same-site comparisons of Maldive–Chagos reefs in the 1990s with studies before 1980
have found large losses in coral cover that were probably associated with warm El Niño …

We live in a complex world where change is happening at ever increasing speeds and
nothing can be dealt with in isolation from the forces that affects it. Increasing globalisation …

In this study, we present exact measures of the number, area, and basic morphometric
statistics for every single reef of the Maldivian archipelago, as derived from the interpretation …

Coral reefs are degrading worldwide, but little information exists on their previous conditions
for most regions of the world. Since 1989, we have been studying the Maldives, collecting …

Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the
Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to …