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Johnston Atoll: reef fish hybrid zone between Hawaii and the equatorial Pacific [PDF]

, 2020
Johnston Atoll is isolated in the Central Pacific Ocean (16°45′ N 169°31′ W) about 1287 km (800 miles) southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii and 1440 km (900 miles) north of the equatorial Line Islands, Kiribati.
Lobel, Lisa, Lobel, Phillip, Randall, John   +2 more
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A comparison of mesophotic and shallow sponge holobionts resilience to predicted future temperature elevation

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Climate change is predicted to have detrimental impacts on sessile invertebrates, including sponges. Mesophotic ecosystems have been suggested to play a major role as refugia for coral reef sponge species, however knowledge regarding the ability of ...
Lilach Raijman-Nagar, Liron Goren, Liron Goren, Sigal Shefer, Sigal Shefer, Raz Moskovich, Raz Moskovich, Zhiyong Li, Micha Ilan   +8 more
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Do Oil and Gas Lease Stipulations in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Need Expansion to Better Protect Vulnerable Coral Communities? How Low Relief Habitats Support High Coral Biodiversity

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The continental shelf of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico harbors extensive reefs and banks that support diverse coral reefs and mesophotic communities. Mesophotic communities range in depth from 40 to 200 m and, in this region, foster some of the densest
Marissa Faye Nuttall, Marissa Faye Nuttall, Emma L. Hickerson, Raven D. Blakeway, Raven D. Blakeway, George P. Schmahl, Paul W. Sammarco   +6 more
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Corrigenda: A new species of Chromis damselfish from the tropical western Atlantic (Teleostei, Pomacentridae). ZooKeys 1008: 107–138. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1008.58805 [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2021
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Emily P. McFarland, Carole C. Baldwin, David Ross Robertson, Luiz A. Rocha, Luke Tornabene   +4 more
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Rhodoliths and rhodolith beds [PDF]

, 2013
Rhodolith (maërl) beds, communities dominated by free living coralline algae, are a common feature of subtidal environments worldwide. Well preserved as fossils, they have long been recognized as important carbonate producers and paleoenvironmental ...
Filho, Gilberto M. Amado, Foster, Michael S., Kamenos, Nicholas A., Riosmena-Rodriguez, Rafael, Steller, Diana L.   +4 more
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Conventional and technical diving surveys reveal elevated biomass and differing fish community composition from shallow and upper mesophotic zones of a remote United States coral reef.

PLoS ONE, 2017
The world's coral reefs appear to be in a global decline, yet most previous research on coral reefs has taken place at depths shallower than 30 m. Mesophotic coral ecosystem (depths deeper than ~30 m) studies have revealed extensive, productive habitats ...
Roldan C Muñoz, Christine A Buckel, Paula E Whitfield, Shay Viehman, Randy Clark, J Christopher Taylor, Brian P Degan, Emma L Hickerson   +7 more
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Key Questions for Research and Conservation of Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems and Temperate Mesophotic Ecosystems [PDF]

, 2019
Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) and temperate mesophotic ecosystems (TMEs) have received increasing research attention during the last decade as many new and improved methods and technologies have become more accessible to explore deeper parts of the ocean.
Turner, Joseph A., Andradi-Brown, Dominic A., Gori, Andrea, Bongaerts, Pim, Burdett, Heidi L., Ferrier-Pagès, Christine, Voolstra, Christian R., Weinstein, David K., Bridge, Tom C. L., Costantini, Federica, Gress, Erika, Laverick, Jack, Loya, Yossi, Goodbody-Gringley, Gretchen, Rossi, Sergio, Taylor, Michelle L., Viladrich, Nuria, Voss, Joshua D., Williams, Joel, Woodall, Lucy C., Eyal, Gal   +20 more
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Does Depth Matter? Reproduction Pattern Plasticity in Two Common Sponge Species Found in Both Mesophotic and Shallow Waters

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
Determining demosponge reproductive strategies is essential to understanding their ecology and life history, as well as for the management of benthic marine environments. This is especially important in mesophotic ecosystems, which have been suggested to
Tal Idan, Liron Goren, Liron Goren, Sigal Shefer, Sigal Shefer, Itzchak Brickner, Micha Ilan   +6 more
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High Meiofaunal and Nematodes Diversity around Mesophotic Coral Oases in the Mediterranean Sea [PDF]

, 2013
Although the mesophotic zone of the Mediterranean Sea has been poorly investigated, there is an increasing awareness about its ecological importance for its biodiversity, as fish nursery and for the recruitment of shallow water species.
Bianchelli S, Canese S, Danovaro R, Greco S, Pusceddu A   +4 more
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Depth specialization in mesophotic corals (Leptoseris spp.) and associated algal symbionts in Hawai'i [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2015
Corals at the lower limits of mesophotic habitats are likely to have unique photosynthetic adaptations that allow them to persist and dominate in these extreme low light ecosystems.
X. Pochon, Z. H. Forsman, H. L. Spalding, J. L. Padilla-Gamiño, C. M. Smith, R. D. Gates   +5 more
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