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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 In studies of habitat-forming species, those that are not spatially dominant are often considered “non-primary” habitat and may be overlooked. This is despite the fact that minority habitat formers can provide critical complexity, food, and other ...
Rosemary Kate Steinberg +3 more
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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 8, August 2026.ABSTRACT Active coral reef restoration incorporates ecological engineering principles. Yet, the spatial arrangement of transplanted colonies, one of the few design parameters directly controlled by practitioners, remains poorly explored empirically. We conducted a systematic review following PRISMA guidelines to evaluate how clustered (high‐density ...
Dor Shefy +3 more
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Marine Drugs, 2023 Inflammation is a critical defense mechanism that is utilized by the body to protect itself against pathogens and other noxious invaders. However, if the inflammatory response becomes exaggerated or uncontrollable, its original protective role is not ...
Ngoc Bao An Nguyen +6 more
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oceandatr: An R Package to Acquire and Process Geospatial Ocean Data
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.We introduce the oceandatr R package, an interface that provides functions for acquiring and processing marine data sources—including bathymetry, geomorphology, ecological, and human use data—and returns these in several grid‐based formats. We outline uses of oceandatr, such as modeling and spatial analysis, and present two case studies where oceandatr
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Scrutinizing the traits of octocorals that could affect their physiological performance becomes increasingly important as several of these species are observed to become dominant on reefs pressured by the Anthropocene.
Tsai-Hsuan Tony Hsu +11 more
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Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 8, August 2026.Two decades of monitoring across the north‐western Mediterranean reveal a 45% regional biomass loss of the foundation gorgonian Paramuricea clavata, driven by increasingly frequent marine heatwaves. Protection sustained higher biomass but could not halt decline, underscoring the urgent need to pair conservation with climate action to preserve red ...
Yanis Zentner +10 more
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Scientia Marina, 2018 Gorgonian species play an important ecological role in the structure and function of marine communities. Human activities are negatively affecting the conservation status of gorgonian populations in the Mediterranean.
Raouia Ghanem +3 more
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Exploring Mesophotic Coral Reef Boundaries Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding
Environmental DNA, Volume 8, Issue 4, July‐August 2026.Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding reveals boundaries along depth gradients in shallow and mesophotic coral reefs. Analysis of metazoan amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) uncovers changes in community structure from shallow to deep reefs, highlighting a localized eDNA footprint and its potential for monitoring mesophotic and deep‐sea habitats ...
Aran Sofer, Omri Bronstein
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Two new species of Waiparaconus (Octocorallia) of the enigmatic Family Waiparaconidae
Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 12, Issue 4, July/August 2026.Abstract Waiparaconus, a Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic fossil, was long interpreted as a pedunculate cirripede, but is now tentatively placed in the Pennatuloidea (Order Scleralcyonacea, Class Octocorallia). New material from the Snow Hill Island Formation (lower Maastrichtian) at Vega Island, Antarctica is described and specimens from the Gingin ...
Daniel Sedorko +9 more
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Revista de Biología Tropical, 2008 Effects of a submarine discharge of urban waste on octocoral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) communities in Cuba. The composition and structure of octocoral communities on coral reefs close to a submarine outfall were studied at Reparto Flores, west of Havana
Darlenys Hernández-Muñoz +2 more
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