• Lavin CP, Jones GP, Williamson DH, Harrison HB (2021) Minimum size limits and the reproductive value of numerous, young, mature female fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences 288: 20202714 

  Fisheries management relies on various catch and effort controls to preserve spawning stock biomass and maximize sustainable yields while limiting fishery impacts on marine ecosystems. These include species-specific minimum ...
• Clementi GM, Bakker J, Flowers KI, Postaire BD, Babcock EA, Bond ME, Buddo D, Cardenosa D, Currey-Randall LM, Goetze JS, Harvey ES, Heupel M, Kiszka JJ, Kyne F, MacNeil MA, Meekan MG, Rees MJ, Simpfendorfer CA, Speed CW, Heithaus MR, Chapman DD (2021) Moray eels are more common on coral reefs subject to higher human pressure in the greater Caribbean, iScience, 24(3):102097 

  Proximity and size of the nearest market ('market gravity') have been shown to have strong negative effects on coral reef fish communities that can be mitigated by the establishment of closed areas. However, moray eels are ...
• French B, Wilson S, Holmes T, Kendrick A, Rule M, Ryan N (2021) Comparing five methods for quantifying abundance and diversity of fish assemblages in seagrass habitat. Ecological Indicators 124:107415 

  Seagrass fishes perform key ecological roles and are a critical component of many of the world's fisheries. A sound understanding of seagrass fish communities, based on robust methods, is therefore integral for their ...
• Brunner CA, Uthicke S, Ricardo GF, Hoogenboom MO, Negri AP (2021) Climate change doubles sedimentation-induced coral recruit mortality. Science of the Total Environment 768:143897 

  Coral reef replenishment is threatened by global climate change and local water-quality degradation, including smothering of coral recruits by sediments generated by anthropogenic activities. Here we show that the ability ...
• Birt MJ, Cure K, Wilson S, Newman SJ, Harvey ES, Meekan M, Speed C, Heyward A, Goetze J, Gilmour J (2021) Isolated reefs support stable fish communities with high abundances of regionally fished species. Ecology and Evolution (early online) 

  Anthropogenic impacts at isolated and inaccessible reefs are often minimal, offering rare opportunities to observe fish assemblages in a relatively undisturbed state. The remote Rowley Shoals are regarded as one of the ...
• Dawson AL, Santana MFM, Miller ME, Kroon FJ (2021) Relevance and reliability of evidence for microplastic contamination in seafood: A critical review using Australian consumption patterns as a case study. Environmental Pollution 276: 116684 

  Seafood contamination with, and human consumption of, microplastics (MPs) have recently been highlighted as an emerging concern for global food security. While there is evidence that commercial marine species are contaminated ...
• Barneche DR, Hulatt CJ, Dossena M, Padfield D, Woodward G, Trimmer M, Yvon-Durocher G (2021) Warming impairs trophic transfer efficiency in a long-term field experiment. Nature 592: 76–79 

  In ecosystems, the efficiency of energy transfer from resources to consumers determines the biomass structure of food webs. As a general rule, about 10% of the energy produced in one trophic level makes it up to the ...
• Quigley KM, Marzonie M, Ramsby B, Abrego D, Milton G, van Oppen MJH, Bay LK (2021) Variability in Fitness Trade-Offs Amongst Coral Juveniles With Mixed Genetic Backgrounds Held in the Wild. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:636177 

  Novel restoration methods are currently under consideration worldwide to help coral reefs recover or become more resilient to higher temperature stress. Critical field based information concerning the paradigm of "local ...
• Desbiens AA, Roff G, Robbins WD, Taylor BM, Castro-Sanguino C, Dempsey A, Mumby PJ (2021) Revisiting the paradigm of shark-driven trophic cascades in coral reef ecosystems. Ecology 102(4):e03303 

  Global overfishing of higher-level predators has caused cascading effects to lower trophic levels in many marine ecosystems. On coral reefs, which support highly diverse food webs, the degree to which top-down trophic ...
• Lester EK, Langlois TJ, Simpson SD, McCormick MI, Meekan MG (2021) Reef-wide evidence that the presence of sharks modifies behaviors of teleost mesopredators. Ecosphere 12(2):e03301 

  The idea that the presence of sharks impacts the behavior of mesopredatory reef fishes is controversial and lacks clear evidence at reef-wide scales. We compared the abundance and behavior of these reef fishes in response ...
• Baird AH, Guest JR, Edwards AJ, Bauman AG, Bouwmeester J, Mera H, Abrego D, Alvarez-Noriega M, Babcock RC, Barbosa MB, Bonito V, Burt J, Cabaitan PC, Chang CF, Chavanich S, Chen CA, Chen CJ, Chen WJ, Chung FC, Connolly SR, Cumbo VR, Dornelas M, Doropoulos C, Eyal G, Eyal-Shaham L, Fadli N, Figueiredo J, Flot JF, Gan SH, Gomez E, Graham EM, Grinblat M, Gutierrez-Isaza N, Harii S, Harrison PL, Hatta M, Ho NAJ, Hoarau G, Hoogenboom M, Howells EJ, Iguchi A, Isomura N, Jamodiong EA, Jandang S, Keyse J, Kitanobo S, Kongjandtre N, Kuo CY, Ligson C, Lin CH, Low J, Loya Y, Maboloc EA, Madin JS, Mezaki T, Min C, Morita M, Moya A, Neo SH, Nitschke MR, Nojima S, Nozawa Y, Piromvaragorn S, Plathong S, Puill-Stephan E, Quigley K, Ramirez-Portilla C, Ricardo G, Sakai K, Sampayo E, Shlesinger T, Sikim L, Simpson C, Sims CA, Sinniger F, Spiji DA, Tabalanza T, Tan CH, Terraneo TI, Torda G, True J, Tun K, Vicentuan K, Viyakarn V, Waheed Z, Ward S, Willis B, Woods RM, Woolsey ES, Yamamoto HH, Yusuf S (2021) An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database. Scientific Data 8:35 

  The discovery of multi-species synchronous spawning of scleractinian corals on the Great Barrier Reef in the 1980s stimulated an extraordinary effort to document spawning times in other parts of the globe. Unfortunately, ...
• Duarte CM, Chapuis L, Collin SP, Costa DP, Devassy RP, Eguiluz VM, Erbe C, Gordon TAC, Halpern BS, Harding HR, Havlik MN, Meekan M, Merchant ND, Miksis-Olds JL, Parsons M, Predragovic M, Radford AN, Radford CA, Simpson SD, Slabbekoorn H, Staaterman E, Van Opzeeland IC, Winderen J, Zhang XL, Juanes F (2021) The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean. Science 371(6529):eaba4658 

  Oceans have become substantially noisier since the Industrial Revolution. Shipping, resource exploration, and infrastructure development have increased the anthrophony (sounds generated by human activities), whereas the ...
• D'Agostino D, Burt JA, Santinelli V, Vaughan GO, Fowler AM, Reader T, Taylor BM, Hoey AS, Cavalcante GH, Bauman AG, Feary DA (2021) Growth impacts in a changing ocean: insights from two coral reef fishes in an extreme environment. Coral Reefs 40:433–446 

  Determining the life-history consequences for fishes living in extreme and variable environments will be vital in predicting the likely impacts of ongoing climate change on reef fish demography. Here, we compare size-at-age ...
• Fox DR, van Dam RA, Fisher R, Batley GE, Tillmanns AR, Thorley J, Schwarz CJ, Spry DJ, McTavish K (2021) Recent Developments in Species Sensitivity Distribution Modeling. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 40:293-308 

  The species sensitivity distribution (SSD) is a statistical approach that is used to estimate either the concentration of a chemical that is hazardous to no more than x% of all species (the HCx) or the proportion of species ...
• Peixoto RS, Sweet M, Villela HDM, Cardoso P, Thomas T, Voolstra CR, Hoj L, Bourne DG, Lewin HA, Roberts RM (2021) Coral Probiotics: Premise, Promise, Prospects. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences 9: 265-288 

  The use of Beneficial Microorganisms for Corals (BMCs) has been proposed recently as a tool for the improvement of coral health, with knowledge in this research topic advancing rapidly. BMCs are defined as consortia of ...
• Chan WY, Oakeshott JG, Buerger P, Edwards OR, van Oppen MJH (2021) Adaptive responses of free-living and symbiotic microalgae to simulated future ocean conditions. Global Change Biology 27(9):1737-1754 

  Marine microalgae are a diverse group of microscopic eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms capable of photosynthesis. They are important primary producers and carbon sinks but their physiology and persistence are severely ...
• Hudspith M, Rix L, Achlatis M, Bougoure J, Guagliardo P, Clode PL, Webster NS, Muyzer G, Pernice M, de Goeij JM (2021) Subcellular view of host-microbiome nutrient exchange in sponges: insights into the ecological success of an early metazoan-microbe symbiosis. Microbiome 9:44 

  Background: Sponges are increasingly recognised as key ecosystem engineers in many aquatic habitats. They play an important role in nutrient cycling due to their unrivalled capacity for processing both dissolved and ...
• Mejias L, Diguet JP, Dezan C, Campbell D, Kok J, Coppin G (2021) Embedded Computation Architectures for Autonomy in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Sensors 21(4):1115 

  This paper addresses the challenge of embedded computing resources required by future autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Based on an analysis of the required onboard functions that will lead to higher levels of ...
• Haller-Bull V, Bode M (2021) Modeling herbivore functional responses causing boom-bust dynamics following predator removal. Ecology and Evolution 11(5):2209-2220 

  Native biodiversity is threatened by invasive species in many terrestrial and marine systems, and conservation managers have demonstrated successes by responding with eradication or control programs. Although invasive ...
• Maire J, Girvan SK, Barkla SE, Perez-Gonzalez A, Suggett DJ, Blackall LL, van Oppen MJH (2021) Intracellular bacteria are common and taxonomically diverse in cultured and in hospite algal endosymbionts of coral reefs. ISME Journal 

  Corals house a variety of microorganisms which they depend on for their survival, including endosymbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae) and bacteria. While cnidarian-microorganism interactions are widely studied, ...

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