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 …

Corals from the northern Red Sea, in particular the Gulf of Aqaba (GoA), have exceptionally
high bleaching thresholds approaching >5℃ above their maximum monthly mean (MMM) …

The aim of ecological restoration is to establish self-sustaining and resilient systems. In coral
reef restoration, transplantation of nursery-grown corals is seen as a potential method to …

This study reports the distribution, abundance and habitat use of juvenile goliath grouper
Epinephelus itajara along fringing red mangrove Rhizophora mangle shorelines of the Florida …

Currently, there is a conflict between the need to conserve protected fish species and the
need to use lethal methods to collect essential biological data, such as age, to assess their …

Background Coral reef restoration projects are becoming a popular corporate environmental
responsibility activity at hotel resorts. Such involvement of private businesses offers the …

Rearing coral fragments in nurseries and subsequent transplantation onto a degraded reef
is a common approach for coral reef restoration. However, if barnacles and other biofouling …

We tested alternative methods to diver visual censuses of juvenile goliath grouper
Epinephelus itajara in turbid mangrove habitat. We used a dual-frequency identification sonar (…

The Goliath grouper Epinephelus itajara has been protected in the USA since 1990. In Florida
commercial and recreational fishers consider the species a top predator of fish and lobster …

Coral reef restoration is a subfield within the larger scientific discipline of ecological restoration
(also known as restoration ecology). Ecological restoration is the process of assisting the …