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Campbell MA, Connell MJ, Collett SJ, Udyawer V, Crewe TL, McDougall A, Campbell HA (2020) The efficacy of protecting turtle nests as a conservation strategy to reverse population decline. Biological Conservation 251:108769

A common strategy used to conserve turtles is to increase the number of hatchlings entering the population by protecting the nests. Typically, nest protection programs require regular and systematic abundance surveys ...
O'Connor MI, Barneche DR, Gonzalez AL, Messier J (2020) Editorial: Unifying Ecology Across Scales: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:610459
Udyawer V, Goiran C, Chateau O, Shine R (2020) Swim with the tide: Tactics to maximize prey detection by a specialist predator, the greater sea snake (Hydrophis major). PLoS ONE 15 (10): e0239920

The fitness of a predator depends upon its ability to locate and capture prey; and thus, increasing dietary specialization should favor the evolution of species-specific foraging tactics tuned to taxon-specific habitats ...
Shine R, Udyawer V, Goiran C (2020) Antipredator tactics: a kin-selection benefit for defensive spines in coral catfish?. Oikos (early online)

Morphological features that impair a predator's ability to consume a prey item may benefit individual prey; but what of features that prolong prey-handling but do not enhance prey survival? For example, a striped eel catfish ...
Miller ME, Hamann M, Kroon FJ (2020) Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of microplastics in marine organisms: A review and meta-analysis of current data. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240792

Microplastic (MP) contamination has been well documented across a range of habitats and for a large number of organisms in the marine environment. Consequently, bioaccumulation, and in particular biomagnification of MPs ...
Hosegood J, Humble E, Ogden R, de Bruyn M, Creer S, Stevens GMW, Abudaya M, Bassos-Hull K, Bonfil R, Fernando D, Foote AD, Hipperson H, Jabado RW, Kaden J, Moazzam M, Peel LR, Pollett S, Ponzo A, Poortvliet M, Salah J, Senn H, Stewart JD, Wintner S, Carvalho G (2020) Phylogenomics and species delimitation for effective conservation of manta and devil rays. Molecular Ecology (early online)

Practical biodiversity conservation relies on delineation of biologically meaningful units. Manta and devil rays (Mobulidae) are threatened worldwide, yet morphological similarities and a succession of recent taxonomic ...
Rodriguez-Ramirez A, Gonzalez-Rivero M, Beijbom O, Bailhache C, Bongaerts P, Brown KT, Bryant DEP, Dalton P, Dove S, Ganase A, Kennedy EV, Kim CJS, Lopez-Marcano S, Neal BP, Radice VZ, Vercelloni J, Beyer HL, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2020) A contemporary baseline record of the world's coral reefs. Scientific Data 7:355

Addressing the global decline of coral reefs requires effective actions from managers, policymakers and society as a whole. Coral reef scientists are therefore challenged with the task of providing prompt and relevant ...
Kennedy EV, Vercelloni J, Neal BP, Ambariyanto, Bryant DEP, Ganase A, Gartrell P, Brown K, Kim CJS, Hudatwi M, Hadi A, Prabowo A, Prihatinningsih P, Haryanta S, Markey K, Green S, Dalton P, Lopez-Marcano S, Rodriguez-Ramirez A, Gonzalez-Rivero M, Hoegh-Guldberg O (2020) Coral Reef Community Changes in Karimunjawa National Park, Indonesia: Assessing the Efficacy of Management in the Face of Local and Global Stressors. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8(10):760

Karimunjawa National Park is one of Indonesia's oldest established marine parks. Coral reefs across the park are being impacted by fishing, tourism and declining water quality (local stressors), as well as climate change ...
Shimada T, Thums M, Hamann M, Limpus CJ, Hays GC, FitzSimmons NN, Wildermann NE, Duarte CM, Meekan MG (2020) Optimising sample sizes for animal distribution analysis using tracking data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (early online)

Knowledge of the spatial distribution of populations is fundamental to management plans for any species. When tracking data are used to describe distributions, it is sometimes assumed that the reported locations of individuals ...
Uthicke S, Pratchett MS, Messmer V, Harrison H (2020) Limited genetic signal from potential cloning and selfing within wild populations of coral-eating crown-of-thorns seastars (Acanthaster cf. solaris). Coral Reefs

Population outbreaks of crown-of-thorns seastars (CoTS; Acanthaster spp.) are contributing to extensive coral loss and reef degradation throughout the Indo-Pacific, but the causes and underlying mechanisms of population ...
Gagliano M, Vyazovskiy VV, Borbely AA, Depczynski M, Radford B (2020) Comment on 'Lack of evidence for associative learning in pea plants'. eLife 9:e61141

In 2016 we reported evidence for associative learning in plants (Gagliano et al., 2016). In view of the far-reaching implications of this finding we welcome the attempt made by Markel to replicate our study (Markel, 2020). ...
Hickey SM, Radford B, Roelfsema CM, Joyce KE, Wilson SK, Marrable D, Barker K, Wyatt M, Davies HN, Leon JX, Duncan J, Holmes TH, Kendrick AJ, Callow JN, Murray K (2020) Between a Reef and a Hard Place: Capacity to Map the Next Coral Reef Catastrophe. Frontiers in Marine Scinece 7:544290

Increasing sea surface temperature and extreme heat events pose the greatest threat to coral reefs globally, with trends exceeding previous norms. The resultant mass bleaching events, such as those evidenced on the Great ...
Botte ES, Luter HM, Marangon E, Patel F, Uthicke S, Webster NS (2020) Simulated future conditions of ocean warming and acidification disrupt the microbiome of the calcifying foraminifera Marginopora vertebralis across life stages. Environmental Microbiology Reports 12(6): 693-701

Foraminifera host diverse microbial communities that can shift in response to changing environmental conditions. To characterize climate change impacts on the foraminifera microbiome across life stages, we exposed adult ...
Robertson AI, Dixon P, Daniel PA, Zagorskis I (2020) Primary production in forests of the mangrove palm Nypa fruticans. Aquatic Botany 167:103288

We investigated the forest structure, leaf demography, leaf allometry and growth of the erect canopy of the mangrove palm Nypa fruticans in four river systems distributed over 10 degrees of latitude in the tropics of ...
Heyward A, Negri A (2020) Distinct thermal signatures of coral morphologies above the waterline. Bulletin of Marine Science 96:765-766
Hays GC, Koldewey HJ, Andrzejaczek S, Attrill MJ, Barley S, Bayley DTI, Benkwitt CE, Block B, Schallert RJ, Carlisle AB, Carr P, Chapple TK, Collins C, Diaz C, Dunn N, Dunbar RB, Eager DS, Engel J, Embling CB, Esteban N, Ferretti F, Foster NL, Freeman R, Gollock M, Graham NAJ, Harris JL, Head CEI, Hosegood P, Howell KL, Hussey NE, Jacoby DMP, Jones R, Pilly SS, Lange ID, Letessier TB, Levy E, Lindhart M, McDevitt-Irwin JM, Meekan M, Meeuwig JJ, Micheli F, Mogg AOM, Mortimer JA, Mucciarone DA, Nicoll MA, Nuno A, Perry CT, Preston SG, Rattray AJ, Robinson E, Roche RC, Schiele M, Sheehan EV, Sheppard A, Sheppard C, Smith AL, Soule B, Spalding M, Stevens GMW, Steyaert M, Stiffel S, Taylor BM, Tickler D, Trevail AM, Trueba P, Turner J, Votier S, Wilson B, Williams GJ, Williamson BJ, Williamson MJ, Wood H, Curnick DJ (2020) A review of a decade of lessons from one of the world's largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges. Marine Biology 167:159

Given the recent trend towards establishing very large marine protected areas (MPAs) and the high potential of these to contribute to global conservation targets, we review outcomes of the last decade of marine conservation ...
Hammond M, Bond T, Prince J, Hovey RK, McLean DL (2020) An assessment of change to fish and benthic communities following installation of an artificial reef. Regional Studies in Marine Science 39:101408

Artificial reefs are frequently installed to provide additional habitat that enhances recreational activities such as diving and fishing. This study assessed changes to habitats, macroinvertebrates and fish after installation ...
Carreira C, Carvalho JPS, Talbot S, Pereira I, Lonborg C (2020) Small-scale distribution of microbes and biogeochemistry in the Great Barrier Reef. PeerJ 8:e10049

Microbial communities distribute heterogeneously at small-scales (mm-cm) due to physical, chemical and biological processes. To understand microbial processes and functions it is necessary to appreciate microbes and matter ...
Rosenberger KJ, Storlazzi CD, Cheriton OM, Pomeroy AWM, Hansen JE, Lowe RJ, Buckley ML (2020) Spectral Wave-Driven Bedload Transport Across a Coral Reef Flat/Lagoon Complex. Frontiers in Marine Science 7:513020

Coral reefs are an important source of sediment for reef-lined coasts and help to maintain beaches by providing protection though dissipation of wave energy. Understanding the mechanisms that deliver sediment to the coast ...
Chin YY, Prince J, Kendrick G, Abdul Wahab MA (2020) Sponges in shallow tropical and temperate reefs are important habitats for marine invertebrate biodiversity. Marine Biology 167:164

Habitat availability underpins the diversity and distribution of benthic marine communities. Sponges are significant structural components of seabeds; therefore, understanding sponge-community associations are important ...

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