Most colour patterns in animals represent an elegant compromise between conspicuousness to ensure effective communication with preferred receivers and camouflage to avoid attracting the attention of unwanted predators. ...
An improved understanding of bycatchmortality can be achieved by complementing field studies with laboratory experiments that use physiological assessments. This study examined the effects of water temperature and the ...
The feeding, moving and cryptic behaviours of 5749 crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci (L.), were studied on 15 reefs of the Great Barrier Reef between June 1986 and December 1987. Log-linear analyses of field ...
The feeding behaviour of the crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster planci (L.), was studied on fifteen reefs of the Great Barrier Reef between June 1986 and December 1987. Feeding preferences of A. planci for the ten most ...
We present a mathematical model of coevolutionary interactions between partners in a coral-algae mutualistic symbiosis. Our goal is to better understand factors affecting the potential evolution of bleaching resistance in ...
Numerous factors affect the distribution of mangrove plants. Most mangrove species are typically dispersed by water-buoyant propagules, allowing them to lake advantage of estuarine, coastal and ocean currents both to ...
Spatially explicit information on species distributions for conservation planning is invariably incomplete; therefore, the use of surrogates is required to represent broad-scale patterns of biodiversity. Despite significant ...
Benthic food chains of the Amazon (Brazil) and Fly (Papua New Guinea) river deltas and adjacent shelves are compared. Abundance patterns of the major trophic groups (bacteria, meiofauna, and macroinfauna) are similar between ...
Territorial damselfishes, or 'farmers', modify the benthic communities in their territories in favour of preferred food species, usually filamentous algae. Behavioural observations of the farming Ward's damselfish, Pomacentrus ...
Concerns regarding the response of calcifiers in future warmer and more acidic oceans have been raised in many studies. Tropical large benthic foraminifera (LBF) are important carbonate producers that reside in coral reefs ...