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Assessing mesophotic coral ecosystems inside and outside a Caribbean marine protected area [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Widespread shallow coral reef loss has led to calls for more holistic approaches to coral reef management, requiring inclusion of ecosystems interacting with shallow coral reefs in management plans.
Erika Gress +3 more
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Search for mesophotic octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) and their phylogeny. II. A new zooxanthellate species from Eilat, northern Red Sea [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2017 An octocoral survey conducted in the mesophotic coral ecosystem (MCE) of Eilat (Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea) yielded a new species of the speciose reef-dwelling genus Sinularia.
Yehuda Benayahu +3 more
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Mesophotic reefs offer thermal refuge to the 2023 Caribbean mass bleaching event in the Cayman Islands [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCoral reefs are increasingly threatened by marine heatwaves, which drive widespread coral bleaching and mortality. Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) have been proposed as potential thermal refuges due to their greater depth and relative isolation from ...
Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley +1 more
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DNA-based floristic survey of red algae (Rhodophyta) growing in the mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) offshore of Tanegashima Island, northern Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. [PDF]
PLoS OneA molecular-based floristic survey of marine red algal biodiversity was conducted offshore Tanegashima Island, which is located at the northern end of mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs), in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. This study provides the first comprehensive catalog of red algae comprising the sublittoral marine flora of offshore Tanegashima ...
Suzuki M, Terada R.
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Examining the Effect of Heat Stress on Montastraea cavernosa (Linnaeus 1767) from a Mesophotic Coral Ecosystem (MCE) [PDF]
Water, 2020 Coral reefs are under increasing pressure from global warming. Little knowledge, however, exists regarding heat induced stress on deeper mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs). Here, we examined the effect of acute (72 h) and chronic (480 h) heat stress on the host coral Montastraea cavernosa (Linnaeus 1767) collected from an upper MCE (~30 m) in Florida ...
John E. Skutnik +3 more
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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2023 Abstract North Lombok Waters have a fairly high level of diversity. Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems (MCEs) are light-dependent coral reef communities ranging from 30-40 meters and extending to the bottom of the photic zone to a depth of 150 meters.
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Diversity, 2023 Coral-dwelling gall crabs (Cryptochiridae) are obligate symbionts of stony corals and occur on shallow and deep reefs across the tropical belt. The circumtropical genus Opecarcinus associates with Agariciidae corals, a dominant component of Mesophotic ...
Silvia Vimercati +8 more
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Diversity, 2021 In recent years, mesophotic coral ecosystems have been a growing topic of interest [...]
Emilie Boissin +4 more
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Sponge abundance and diversity patterns in the shallow and mesophotic reefs of the northern Red Sea
Frontiers in Marine ScienceAccumulating data on the increasing degradation of coral reefs worldwide has led to a focus on the unique mesophotic coral ecosystem (MCE) as a potential refuge for threatened shallow-water species (i.e., the deep reef refugia hypothesis: DRRH).
Lilach Raijman-Nagar +5 more
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