Sponges are a major component of benthic ecosystems across the world and fulfil a number
of important functional roles. However, despite their importance, there have been few …

Marine deforestation combined with growing demands from the alginate market, reliant
largely on wild kelp harvesting, has heightened concern for the potential broad and …

Sponges are functionally important components of global benthic environments and have
been proposed as potential winners under future climate scenarios. We review the evidence …

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited
sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever increasing interest in work in …

The study aimed at contributing to the knowledge of alternative stable states by evaluating
the differences of mobile and sessile macro-zoobenthic assemblages between sea urchin …

Monitoring has become a critical component of managing marine environments world-wide
in the face of local and global anthropogenic impacts. Typically the focus of most monitoring …

Studies regarding macroalgal responses to ocean acidification (OA) are mostly limited to
short-term experiments in controlled conditions, which hamper the possibility to scale up the …

Temperate mesophotic ecosystems (TMEs) typically occur between 30 and 150 m depth and
support rich benthic communities. However, despite their widespread distribution and …

Hard structural complexity is widely recognised as important for assessing fish habitat
quality, but our understanding of the importance of soft habitat microstructure for temperate …

Kelp forests provide habitat and resources to diverse organisms and provide valuable
ecosystem services. However, marine deforestation due to wild kelp harvesting, among …