Coral Reefs

Article	Citations
Natural products from Caribbean octocorals demonstrate bioactivity against Vibrio coralliilyticus strains	203
Colour pattern has no influence on the visual recognition of conspecifics by coral reef fish juveniles	48
Remote video surveys unveil the diurnal variability of trophic-based processes by fishes on coral reefs	42
Spawning times and breeding trials suggest no inbreeding occurs between Porites aff. lutea and P. cf cylindrica	38
High within-colony growth variation can obscure host and symbiont genotype effects in nursery-reared corals	36
Combination of hermaphroditic and gonochoric sexual modes in the coral Porites cylindrica	35
Mapping monumental corals through citizen science	33
A carbon cycling model shows strong control of seasonality and importance of sponges on the functioning of a northern Red Sea coral reef	32
Correction to: Using commercial high‑resolution satellite imagery to monitor a nuisance macroalga in the largest marine protected area in the USA	30
Exploring seasonal dynamics in Palythoa caribaeorum-dominated habitats using photogrammetry	27
Correction to: Biogeophysical drivers of abundance for habitat-shifting reef fishes on stepping-stone coral patch reefs	27
Demographic recovery of corals at a wave-exposed reef following catastrophic disturbance	27
Comparing anesthetic stations and environmental DNA sampling to determine community composition of cryptobenthic coral reef fishes of Vava’u, Kingdom of Tonga	27
DNA metabarcoding confirms primary targets and breadth of diet for coral reef butterflyfishes	26
Selecting response traits that reveal ecological strategies of tropical seaweeds on reefs in Mo’orea, French Polynesia	25
Transcriptomic profiling of a facultative symbiotic white gorgonian provides insights into symbiosis regulation in octocorals	24
Contrasting coral growth and heat stress responses across a natural turbidity gradient	24
Telomere dynamics in the Pacific crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris): effect of age, diet, and tissue type	23
Nowhere to hide: massive corals’ mortality after cumulative heat stress in a putative climate change refugium	23
Re(de)fining degree-heating week: coral bleaching variability necessitates regional and temporal optimization of global forecast model stress metrics	23
Inter- and intraspecific diversity in bacterial communities associated with two crustose coralline algae from the NW Mediterranean Sea	23
Symbiodiniaceae diversity in Pocillopora corals in different environments of the Colombian Eastern Pacific: symbiont specificity in spite of coral-host flexibility	23
Acute heat stress and the extirpation of a threatened coral species from a remote, subtropical reef system	23
Conservation priorities for reef-building coral biodiversity across multiple dimensions in the South China Sea	21
Potential environment effect on ultrahigh resolution Sr/Ca of giant clam shells from South China Sea	20

Patterns of coral spawning in the Palm Islands, Great Barrier Reef	19
Ten years of dynamic co-management of a multi-species reef fishery	19
Rubble in paradise: motile infaunal diversity patterns across reef environments in Palau	19
Coral reef potential connectivity in the southwest Indian Ocean	18
Trace DNA from a century-old holotype specimen resolves taxonomic uncertainties: the case of the Hawaiian pink precious coral (Pleurocorallium secundum), a CITES-listed species used in jewelry	18
Correction to: Seasonal variation in reef fish assemblages in the environmentally extreme southern Persian/Arabian Gulf	18
The comparative roles of thermal inactivation of endosymbiont photosynthesis and nutrient deprivation in coral bleaching	17
Thermal stress response of Antipathella wollastoni (Gray, 1857) from the Canary Islands archipelago	17
Inside the mesophotic zone: taxonomic and trait diversity of epifauna associated with black coral forests across an oceanic archipelago	17
Influence of red gorgonian (Paramuricea clavata) forests on coralligenous community structure across different regions, seasons, thermal environment, and water trophic state	16
Diel changes in subcellular traits of an intracellular Symbiodiniaceae sponge specialist: pyrenoid, chloroplast, and granule plasticity in the symbiont Gerakladium spongiolum	16
A framework to inform economic valuation of non-use benefits from coral reef intervention efforts	16
Local conditions modulated the effects of marine heatwaves on coral bleaching in subtropical Hong Kong waters	15
A 2018 epizootic of a tissue-loss disease in the Southwestern Gulf of Mexico: implications for coral health and conservation	15
Two decades of coral carbonate production within and across geomorphic zones	15
Same-same but different: habitat use and partitioning of three cryptobenthic coral reef fishes of the genus Trimma	15
Symbiodinium necroappetens outbreak and persistence in Southwestern Atlantic corals following a bleaching event	15
A site-adaptive Bayesian hierarchical framework for predicting coral bleaching across the coral triangle and South China Sea	15
Energy acquisition and allocation strategies in scleractinian corals: insights from intraspecific trait variability	14
Differing lesion recovery rates of two Caribbean stony coral species across a shallow water to mesophotic depth gradient suggest different sensitivity to repeated disturbance	14
Comparative lipidomics of a temperate and a subtropical coral under acute temperature stress	14
Dietary variation and seasonal changes in the fish egg eating specialist, Emydocephalus ijimae (Squamata: Reptilia) in mid-latitude coral reefs	14
Limited susceptibility of Lobophora to browsing fishes on inshore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef	14
Partial bleaching and survival responses in the outer mantle of the giant clam Tridacna squamosa exposed to temperature stress	14
Return of the lamingtons–boom-and-bust populations of the barrens forming sea urchin Tripneustes australiae in Lord Howe Island Marine Park	14
Geochemical evidence of temporal ecosystem photosynthetic plasticity within a pristine coral atoll	14
Correction to: Conservation benefits of no-take marine reserves outweigh modest benefits of partially protected areas for targeted coral reef fishes	14
Decadal and multispecies coral connectivity modeling for conservation and restoration prioritization in Florida	14
Confronting the ‘nocturnal problem’ in coral reefs: sleeping site selection and cocoon formation in parrotfishes	14
Correction: Impacts of coral bleaching on pH and oxygen gradients across the coral concentration boundary layer: a microsensor study	13
Photogrammetry for coral structural complexity: What is beyond sight?	13
Habitat trumps biogeography in structuring coral reef fishes	13
Speciation of coral-associated barnacles: generalists versus specialists in the Indo-West Pacific	13
Microhabitat heterogeneity promotes low-redundant and highly diverse taxonomic and functional nematode assemblages in a shallow coral reef ecosystem	13
Community composition of juvenile and adult corals differs across classic and extreme reefs in Palau	13
Examining the sublethal impacts of environmentally relevant concentrations of Karenia brevis on three South Florida reef-building coral species using a multi-omics workflow	13
From stability to decline: threefold increase in partial mortality of threatened Isopora crateriformis in American Samoa following the 2024 Global Coral Bleaching Event	13
Spatial structuring of coral traits along a subtropical-temperate transition zone persists despite localised signs of tropicalisation	13
From dive slates to digital imagery: an evaluation of the effect of coral reef assessment methods on benthic and substrate compositions and an alignment between methods	13
A note on the sexual reproductive biology of Ricordea yuma (Corallimorpharia)	13
Fitted Fv/Fm temperature response curves: applying lessons from plant ecophysiology to acute thermal stress experiments in coral holobionts	13
Role of feeding and physiological trade-offs in sustaining resilience of the coral Galaxea fascicularis to light limitation	13
Like attracts like: conspecific aggregation boosts coral restoration and enables microbiome-based growth prediction	13
Diverse patterns of larval coral reef fish vertical distribution and consequences for dispersal and connectivity	12
Host identity shapes Endozoicomonas composition in coral microbiomes across depths and marine protected areas at Little Cayman Island	12
Palaeoecology of the Devonian ‘button coral’ Microcyclus (Anthozoa: Rugosa) and its recent functional analogues	12
Biophysical drivers of coral reef community structure across a tropical benthic seascape	12
Fate-tracking early coral recruits following bleaching in a remote reef ecosystem	12
Correction to: Quantifying capture and ingestion of live feeds across three coral species	12
Mobile reef fishes as drivers of metacommunity dynamics in benthic cyanobacterial mats	12

Utilisation of macroalgal habitats by juvenile rabbitfishes on an inshore reef	12
Micromorphological variation in Pocillopora coral is associated to temporal changes of corallite development	11
Insights from multispecies coral seeding deployments on turbid nearshore reefs	11
Pioneer generation shapes long-term recovery of coral populations	11
Differential feeding preferences and population responses of six obligate corallivore fishes during a mass coral bleaching event	11
Desperate larva or death before dishonor: Can old coral larvae replenish degraded reefs?	11
Variation in species and functional composition of octocorals and zoantharians across a tropical to temperate environmental gradient in the Indo-Pacific	11
Land-based inputs drive demographic feedbacks in a tropical brooding coral	11
The diversity, distribution, and temporal stability of coral ‘zooxanthellae’ on a pacific reef: from the scale of individual colonies to across the host community	11
Cryptic coral reef microhabitats and the functional role of brittle stars in biogenic sediment generation	11
Sulphate reduction and carbonate precipitation in a high-energy algal rim framework	11
Coral carbonate production across depth: homogenisation after bleaching?	10
Coral reefs: bridging knowledge for resilience and action	10
Correction to: Calcification rates in the lower photic zone and their ecological implications	10
Green fluorescent proteins show divergent patterns among species and strains of Porites from the Great Barrier Reef	10
Long-term outcomes of passive and active restoration approaches following a vessel grounding in Hawaii, USA	10
Biogeophysical drivers of abundance for habitat-shifting reef fishes on stepping-stone coral patch reefs	10
Foraging microhabitat preferences of invertivorous fishes within tropical macroalgal meadows: identification of canopy specialists	10
Dynamic evolution of coral reef ecosystems in the South China Sea under global change: a comprehensive multidimensional numerical simulation	10
Fine-scale habitat partitioning among 14 species of coral reef dwarfgobies (Gobiidae: Eviota) in the Red Sea	10
Coral health status before and after the tourism halt caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Koh Tao (Thailand)	10
Correction to: Acute heat-stress testing in coral bleaching research: a review of research using the Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS)	9
A multi-parameter model to predict coral bleaching on Australian coral reefs: identifying moderators of thermal stress impacts	9
Daily feeding rates of Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster cf. solaris) vary with body size and coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef	9
Characterizing the extent of the oceanic 60–150 m deep mesophotic zone in Tuamotu-Gambier Archipelago atolls using multibeam bathymetry and geomorphology data	9
Acute heat-stress testing in coral bleaching research: a review of research using the Coral Bleaching Automated Stress System (CBASS)	9
Movement dynamics, sediment turnover and sheltering behaviours of the nocturnal coral reef sea cucumber, Stichopus cf. monotuberculatus	9
Evaluation of the Allen Coral Atlas benthic habitat map product for New Caledonia using representative habitat observations from a multi-species fishery assessment	9
Coral-associated Symbiodiniaceae dynamics during the 2016 mass bleaching event in New Caledonia	9
Reducing local stressors enhances the resistance of the coral Mussismilia hispida and the zoantharian Palythoa caribaeorum to global stressors in island reefs under marginal conditions	9
The short spined crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster brevispinus is a corallivore too	9
Colony self-shading facilitates Symbiodiniaceae cohabitation in a South Pacific coral community	9
Stable symbiont communities persist in parents, gametes, and larvae of Montipora capitata across historical bleaching phenotypes	9
Shallow seasonal stratification ameliorates coral bleaching during record-breaking marine heatwaves in a marginal subtropical system	8
A decade of benthic changes on coral reefs in the Southern Persian/Arabian Gulf (2010–2020)	8
Simulated connectivity of crown-of-thorns starfish around Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park (western Japan) based on a high-resolution hydrodynamic modeling	8
Occurrence of UV filter molecules in Paramuricea clavata and the role of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in the Ligurian Sea, Italy	8
Characterization and phylogenetic implications of the mitochondrial genomes of the Phyllidiidae (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) from the South China Sea	8
Reproductive cycle of reef-building scleractinians from a Mediterranean mesophotic coral reef	8
Cost-effective coral settlement substrates for restoration, exports and research	8
Climate change-related disturbances in 2024 drive the largest known population of elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata) in Barbados to the brink of extirpation	8
DNA metabarcoding as a tool for characterising the spatio-temporal distribution of planktonic larvae in the phylum Echinodermata	8
Fine-scale fish associations across mesophotic and deep coral fore-reef habitats	8
Assessing coral reef conservation planning in Wakatobi National Park (Indonesia) from larval connectivity networks	8
Comparative analysis of organismal trait variation in benthic cnidarians	8
Exploring horizontal and vertical genetic structuring in Pocillopora populations in Reunion Island (southwestern Indian Ocean): insight for the ‘Deep Reef Refuge’ hypothesis?	8
Characterising the mycobiome of healthy and wounded reef sharks in the Seychelles archipelago	8
eDNA monitoring detects new outbreak wave of corallivorous seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris) at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef	8
Reproductive phenology and sexual propagation of the pink sea fan Eunicella verrucosa (Pallas, 1766): implications for coral restoration	8
Year-round variations in reserve lipid molecular species of the Indo-Pacific corals Sinularia flexibilis and Millepora platyphylla	7
Microbiota of host sea anemones and their associated anemonefish show contrasting responses to a bleaching event	7
Studying functions on coral reefs: past perspectives, current conundrums, and future potential	7
A user’s guide to coral reef restoration terminologies	7
Increasing body size unlocks gelatinous planktivory in a key coral reef fish species	7
Growth responses of mixotrophic giant clams on nearshore turbid coral reefs	7
Low light intensity increased survival of coral spat in aquaculture	7
Short-term stress testing predicts subsequent natural bleaching variation	7
Morphological organization and ultrastructural evaluation of the oocyte–sperm bundle of the Southwestern Atlantic coral Mussismilia harttii	7
Sex ratios and gamete production vary across cryptic coral lineages and thermal environments	7
Mesophotic vs. shallow water reefs: ecosystem connectivity in the Silurian of Gotland	7
A metagenomic-based study of two sites from the Barbadian reef system	7
The impact of the 2024 coral bleaching event on corals at a remote atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia	7
Coral bleaching and crown-of-thorns starfish modulate long-term changes in coral cover and composition across reef zones at Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef	7
Tracking coral bleaching and Chaetodon octofasciatus dynamics in the Gulf of Thailand during the fourth global mass bleaching event	7
Biophysical drivers of coral survival and growth: taxon-specific responses under varying local conditions	7
Sediment topography enhances the response of coral reef carbonate sediment dissolution to ocean acidification	7
Antarctic deep-sea coral larvae may be resistant to end-century ocean warming	7
Correction to: Outplanting of branching Acropora enhances recolonization of a fish species and protects massive corals from predation	7
Microbial characterization of the first occurrence of White Plague disease in the endemic brain coral Mussismilia hispida at Alcatrazes Archipelago, Brazil	7
Projected ocean acidification and seasonal temperature alter the behaviour and growth of a range extending tropical fish	7
Inferring the distribution of octocorals Nanipora and Heliopora along the coast of the Kerama Islands, Okinawa, Japan, by eDNA metabarcoding	7
The effects of seawater temperature-induced coral bleaching on the aragonite structure and material properties of massive Porites lutea coral skeletons	7
Correction to: Geomorphological drivers of deeper reef habitats around Seychelles	7
Deoxygenation following coral spawning and low-level thermal stress trigger mass coral mortality at Coral Bay, Ningaloo Reef	7
Estimating coral reef carbonate budgets using Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry	7
Impact of the 2023 coral bleaching event in Martinique, Eastern Caribbean	7
Depth stratified light trap sampling reveals variation in the depth distribution of late-stage cryptobenthic reef fish larvae	7
Changes of Tiahura (Moorea Island) reef flat habitats using 67 years of remote sensing observations	7
Characterising photo-physiological responses of three coral species to low light for enhancing ex situ culture and the restoration of extreme reefs	6
Diversity and distribution of corals of opportunity in a marginal and extreme reef environment	6

Structural attributes and macrofaunal assemblages associated with rose gorgonian gardens (Leptogorgia sp. nov.) in Central Chile: opening the door for conservation actions	6
Coral reef attributes associated with microplastic exposure	6
Pocillopora host–symbiont interactions along an extreme environmental gradient	6
A test of adaptive strategy theory using fifteen years of change in coral abundance	6
A quantitative comparison of tools for monitoring the abundance of crown-of-thorns starfish and coral cover	6
Fine-scale heterogeneity reveals disproportionate thermal stress and coral mortality in thermally variable reef habitats during a marine heatwave	6
Increased disease prevalence in a warming peripheral reef setting (Abu Dhabi, Persian/Arabian Gulf)	6
The reef-building coral Galaxea fascicularis: a new model system for coral symbiosis research	6
Ultrastructural evidence for cryoinjury of the scleractinian coral larvae	6
Extreme low-frequency waves on the Ofu, American Samoa, reef flat	6
Complex sound scattering layer and water-column dynamics over a mesophotic coral ecosystem: Southwest Puerto Rico, U.S.A	6
Adaptive hues: color change in a small coral reef mesopredator (Pseudochromis flavivertex)	6
Optimizing coral reef monitoring: species traits and habitat factors predict visual census performance	6
Coral settlement and recruitment are negatively related to reef fish trait diversity	6
Using reflectance to measure chlorophyll a in corals: calibration and implications of skeletal optical properties	6
Genetic diversity and structure among Acropora austera populations in Mozambique suggest low resilience potential of one of the world’s most charismatic coral reefs	6
Revisiting the terms used in net ecosystem calcification studies, carbonate budgets, and the equation of coral reef growth	6
Spawning window and fecundity in three Acroporid corals from the environmentally variable semi-enclosed lagoon of Bouraké	6
Using underwater mini-ROV for coral eDNA survey: a case study in Okinawan mesophotic ecosystems	6
Diel patterns of symbiont expulsion in Caribbean reef corals are coral species-dependent and driven by symbiont load and photosynthetic performance	6
Is the Coral Triangle’s future shown in a Pliocene reef gap?	6
Impending extirpation of an isolated Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) population at Glover’s Atoll, Belize, based on two decades of monitoring	6