• Carr H, Abas M, Boutahar L, Caretti ON, Chan WY, Chapman ASA, de Mendonca SN, Engleman A, Ferrario F, Simmons KR, Verdura J, Zivian A (2020) The Aichi Biodiversity Targets: achievements for marine conservation and priorities beyond 2020. PeerJ 8:e9743 

  In 2010 the Conference of the Parties (COP) for the Convention on Biological Diversity revised and updated a Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, which included the Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Here a group of early ...
• Wilson P, Thums M, Pattiaratchi C, Whiting S, Meekan M, Pendoley K (2021) Nearshore wave characteristics as cues for swimming orientation in flatback turtle hatchlings. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology 535:151475 

  Waves are thought to provide an important directional cue for hatchlings of marine turtles to navigate through the nearshore zone and to facilitate dispersal to oceanic waters. As the flatback turtle (Natator depressus) ...
• Parsons M, Meekan M (2020) Acoustic Characteristics of Small Research Vessels. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8:970 

  Vessel noise is an acute and chronic stressor of a wide variety of marine fauna. Understanding, modelling and mitigating the impacts of this pollutant requires quantification of acoustic signatures for various vessel classes ...
• Cooke I, Ying H, Foret S, Bongaerts P, Strugnell JM, Simakov O, Zhang J, Field MA, Rodriguez-Lanetty M, Bell SC, Bourne DG, van Oppen MJH, Ragan MA, Miller DJ (2020) Genomic signatures in the coral holobiont reveal host adaptations driven by Holocene climate change and reef specific symbionts. Science Advances 6(48):eabc6318 

  Genetic signatures caused by demographic and adaptive processes during past climatic shifts can inform predictions of species' responses to anthropogenic climate change. To identify these signatures in Acropora tenuis, a ...
• van Oppen MJH, Oakeshottc JG (2020) A breakthrough in understanding the molecular basis of coral heat tolerance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 117:28546-28548 
• Yang CT, Zheng YX, Tan SJ, Meng GL, Rao W, Yang CQ, Bourne DG, O'Brien PA, Xu JQ, Liao S, Chen A, Chen XW, Jia XR, Zhang AB, Liu SL (2020) Efficient COI barcoding using high throughput single-end 400bp sequencing. BMC Genomics 21:862 

  BackgroundOver the last decade, the rapid development of high-throughput sequencing platforms has accelerated species description and assisted morphological classification through DNA barcoding. However, the current ...
• Cleves PA, Tinoco AI, Bradford J, Perrin D, Bay LK, Pringle JR (2020) Reduced thermal tolerance in a coral carrying CRISPR-induced mutations in the gene for a heat-shock transcription factor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117(46): 28899-28905 

  Reef-building corals are keystone species that are threatened by anthropogenic stresses including climate change. To investigate corals' responses to stress and other aspects of their biology, numerous genomic and ...
• Bridge TCL, Huang Z, Przeslawski R, Tran M, Siwabessy J, Picard K, Reside AE, Logan M, Nichol SL, Caley MJ (2020) Transferable, predictive models of benthic communities informs marine spatial planning in a remote and data-poor region. Conservation Science and Practice 2:e251 

  Systematic conservation planning requires spatial information on biodiversity. Such information is often unavailable, forcing spatial planning to rely on assumed relationships between species and environmental features. ...
• Chan WY, Chung J, Peplow LM, Hoffmann AA, van Oppen MJH (2020) Maternal effects in gene expression of interspecific coral hybrids. Molecular Ecology 30(2):517-527 

  Maternal effects have been well documented for offspring morphology and life history traits in plants and terrestrial animals, yet little is known about maternal effects in corals. Further, few studies have explored maternal ...
• Sen Gupta A, Thomsen M, Benthuysen JA, Hobday AJ, Oliver E, Alexander LV, Burrows MT, Donat MG, Feng M, Holbrook NJ, Perkins-Kirkpatrick S, Moore PJ, Rodrigues RR, Scannell HA, Taschetto AS, Ummenhofer CC, Wernberg T, Smale DA (2020) Drivers and impacts of the most extreme marine heatwaves events. Scientific Reports 10: 19359 

  Prolonged high-temperature extreme events in the ocean, marine heatwaves, can have severe and long-lasting impacts on marine ecosystems, fisheries and associated services. This study applies a marine heatwave framework to ...
• Ferreira LC, Thums M, Fossette S, Wilson P, Shimada T, Tucker AD, Pendoley K, Waayers D, Guinea ML, Loewenthal G, King J, Speirs M, Rob D, Whiting SD (2020) Multiple satellite tracking datasets inform green turtle conservation at a regional scale. Diversity and Distributions (early online) 

  Aim Satellite tracking studies of marine megafauna have grown over the last few decades. The number of these individual datasets are now at levels which if combined, can infer on population level movement and spatial use. ...
• Thomas MC, Flores F, Kaserzon S, Reeks TA, Negri AP (2020) Toxicity of the herbicides diuron, propazine, tebuthiuron, and haloxyfop to the diatom Chaetoceros muelleri. Scientific Reports 10:19592 

  Conventional photosystem II (PSII) herbicides applied in agriculture can pose significant environmental risks to aquatic environments. In response to the frequent detection of these herbicides in the Great Barrier Reef ...
• Sakai Y, Kato K, Koyama H, Kuba A, Takahashi H, Fujimori T, Hatta M, Negri AP, Baird AH, Ueno N (2020) A step-down photophobic response in coral larvae: implications for the light-dependent distribution of the common reef coral, Acropora tenuis. Scientific Reports 10:17680 

  Behavioral responses to environmental factors at the planktonic larval stage can have a crucial influence on habitat selection and therefore adult distributions in many benthic organisms. Reef-building corals show strong ...
• Smallhorn-West P, Gordon S, Stone K, Ceccarelli D, Malimali S, Halafihi T, Wyatt M, Bridge T, Pressey R, Jones G (2020) Biophysical and anthropogenic influences on the status of Tonga's coral reefs and reef fish fishery. PLoS ONE 5(11): e0241146 

  Despite increasing threats to Tonga's coral reefs from stressors that are both local (e.g. overfishing and pollution) and global (e.g. climate change), there is yet to be a systematic assessment of the status of the country's ...
• Harding HR, Gordon TAC, Wong K, McCormick MI, Simpson SD, Radford AN (2020) Condition-dependent responses of fish to motorboats. Biology Letters 16:20200401 

  Anthropogenic noise is a pollutant of global concern that has been shown to have a wide range of detrimental effects on multiple taxa. However, most noise studies to-date consider only overall population means, ignoring ...
• Taylor BM, Wakefield CB, Newman SJ, Chinkin M, Meekan MG (2020) Unprecedented longevity of unharvested shallow-water snappers in the Indian Ocean. Coral Reefs 

  Identification of latitudinal trends in growth and maximum ages provides important insights into the vulnerability of coral reef fishes to human exploitation. Here, we sampled three species of unharvested tropical snappers ...
• Strehlow BW, Pineda MC, Kenkel CD, Laffy P, Duckworth A, Renton M, Clode PL, Webster NS (2020) Novel reference transcriptomes for the sponges Carteriospongia foliascens and Cliona orientalis and associated algal symbiont Gerakladium endoclionum. Coral Reefs 

  Sponge transcriptomes are important resources for studying the stress responses of these ecologically important filter feeders, the interactions between sponges and their symbionts, and the evolutionary history of metazoans. ...
• Munday PL, Dixson DL, Welch MJ, Chivers DP, Domenici P, Grosell M, Heuer RM, Jones GP, McCormick MI, Meekan M, Nilsson GE, Ravasi T, Watson SA (2020) Methods matter in repeating ocean acidification studies. Nature 586: E20-E24 
• Piggott CVH, Depczynski M, Gagliano M, Langlois TJ (2020) Remote video methods for studying juvenile fish populations in challenging environments. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 532: 151454 

  Understanding the dynamics of juvenile fish populations is a key component to understanding variation in adult populations, however, juvenile fish are frequently found in a variety of structurally complex habitats which ...
• Ceccarelli DM, McLeod IM, Bostrom-Einarsson L, Bryan SE, Chartrand KM, Emslie MJ, Gibbs MT, Rivero MG, Hein MY, Heyward A, Kenyon TM, Lewis BM, Mattocks N, Newlands M, Schlappy ML, Suggett DJ, Bay LK (2020) Substrate stabilisation and small structures in coral restoration: State of knowledge, and considerations for management and implementation. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240846 

  Coral reef ecosystems are under increasing pressure from local and regional stressors and a changing climate. Current management focuses on reducing stressors to allow for natural recovery, but in many areas where coral ...

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