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Survival, rarity, and extinction in tropical stony corals
Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Many reef‐building tropical corals are becoming rare. We considered the meaning of rarity in corals and highlighted taxa that have reached low abundances in the last few decades. The difficulties of quantifying rarity in the marine environment arise from the sheer scale and 3‐dimensional nature of the biome and the inherent challenges therein ...
Bryan Wilson, Peter J. Edmunds
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Deep reefs are not refugium for shallow‐water fish communities in the southwestern Atlantic
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The deep reef refugia hypothesis (DRRH) predicts that deep reef ecosystems may act as refugium for the biota of disturbed shallow waters. Because deep reefs are among the most understudied habitats on Earth, formal tests of the DRRH remain scarce. If the
Aline P. M. Medeiros +5 more
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Deep coral oases in the South Tyrrhenian Sea [PDF]
, 2012 A Mediterranean ‘‘roche du large’’ ecosystem, represented by four rocky shoals, located a few miles apart on a muddy bottom at 70–130 m depth in the gulf of St.
Angiolillo M. +10 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 In coral reef ecosystems, mesophotic coral habitat (>30 m to the end of the photic zone) are extensions of shallow reefs and contribute to the persistence of coral reef populations.
Lysel Garavelli +7 more
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Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 17, Issue 6, December 2025.This study demonstrates that the eukaryome of the Mediterranean octocoral Corallium rubrum exhibits high variability, and the dominance of certain taxa is influenced by spatiotemporal environmental factors. Despite this, core microeukaryotic families, such as Licnophoridae and Dino‐Group I Clade 1, were consistently present, suggesting key roles in the
Camille Prioux +4 more
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Demersal fish assemblages on seamounts and other rugged features in the northeastern Caribbean [PDF]
, 2017 © The Author(s), 2017. This is the author's version of the work and is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 123 (2017): 90–
Chaytor, Jason D. +4 more
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Seriatopora Diversity Preserved in Upper Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems in Southern Japan [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 Coral reefs worldwide are facing increasing stress due to drastic changes in their environment. Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) have been considered as a potential refuge from several major stressors, such as warm-water bleaching events. However, their role as a subsequent source of larvae remains unclear for many species, particularly as genetic ...
Sinniger, Frederic +4 more
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Photosynthesis and Bio-Optical Properties of Fluorescent Mesophotic Corals
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) are light-dependent coral-associated communities found at 30–150 m depth. Corals inhabiting these deeper reefs are often acclimatized to a limited and blue-shifted light environment, enabling them to maintain the ...
Or Ben-Zvi +10 more
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Differential response to abiotic stress controls species distributions at biogeographic transition zones [PDF]
, 2017 Understanding range limits is critical to predicting species responses to climate change. Subtropical environments, where many species overlap at their range margins, are cooler, more light-limited and variable than tropical environments.
Sommer, B +4 more
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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 +8 more
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