Coral reefs worldwide are degrading due to climate change, overfishing, pollution, coastal
development, coral bleaching, and diseases. In areas where the natural recovery of an …

In the marine realm, the tropics host an extraordinary diversity of taxa but the drivers underlying
the global distribution of marine organisms are still under scrutiny and we still lack an …

Human impact increasingly alters global ecosystems, often reducing biodiversity and
disrupting the provision of essential ecosystem services to humanity. Therefore, preserving …

Shift transitions in dominance on coral reefs from hard coral cover to fleshy macroalgae are
having negative effects on Caribbean coral reef communities. Data on spatiotemporal …

Additive partitioning was applied to variation in reef fish spatial diversity at Isla Isabel National
Park, Nayarit state, Mexico, and to identify the environmental and spatial variables that …

As the impact of anthropogenic activity and climate change continue to accelerate rates of
degradation on Caribbean coral reefs, conservation and restoration faces greater challenges. …

Surgeonfish and parrotfish play an important role in structuring the benthic communities of
coral reefs. However, despite their importance, little is known about their distribution patterns …

… The potential distinctness in species composition occurs at small scales in the case of
corals (Ruiz-Zárate and Arias-González 2004), and our results suggest a strong distinctness in …

Over the past few decades, coral reef ecosystems have been lost at accelerated rates as a
result of global climate change and local stressors. Local management schemes can help …

Devil firefish Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) is a species native to the Indo-Pacific that along
with Pterois volitans (Linneaus, 1758) has been invading the western Atlantic since the 1980’s…