Contingency planning for coral reefs in the Anthropocene; The potential of reef safe havens

EF Camp - Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2022 - portlandpress.com
Reducing the global reliance on fossil fuels is essential to ensure the long-term survival of
coral reefs, but until this happens, alternative tools are required to safeguard their future …

A deep learning method for accurate and fast identification of coral reef fishes in underwater images

S Villon, D Mouillot, M Chaumont, ES Darling… - Ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Identifying and counting fish individuals on photos and videos is a crucial task to cost-
effectively monitor marine biodiversity, yet it remains difficult and time-consuming. In this …

Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems through the lens of the size spectrum

RF Heneghan, IA Hatton… - Emerging Topics in Life …, 2019 - portlandpress.com
Climate change is a complex global issue that is driving countless shifts in the structure and
function of marine ecosystems. To better understand these shifts, many processes need to …

The global ocean size spectrum from bacteria to whales

IA Hatton, RF Heneghan, YM Bar-On, ED Galbraith - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
It has long been hypothesized that aquatic biomass is evenly distributed among logarithmic
body mass size classes. Although this community structure has been observed regionally …

Principles for estimating fish productivity on coral reefs

RA Morais, DR Bellwood - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
Coral reefs provide major nutritional inputs to humans through fish production. Yet, our
capacity to adequately assess fish productivity in these and other high-diversity aquatic …

Global patterns and drivers of fish reproductive potential on coral reefs

J Hadj-Hammou, JE Cinner, DR Barneche… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Fish fecundity scales hyperallometrically with body mass, meaning larger females produce
disproportionately more eggs than smaller ones. We explore this relationship beyond the …

Direct and indirect effects of climate change‐amplified pulse heat stress events on coral reef fish communities

JMT Magel, SA Dimoff, JK Baum - Ecological Applications, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change‐amplified temperature anomalies pose an imminent threat to coral reef
ecosystems. While much focus has been placed on the effects of heat stress on scleractinian …

Live fish species classification in underwater images by using convolutional neural networks based on incremental learning with knowledge distillation loss

A Ben Tamou, A Benzinou, K Nasreddine - Machine Learning and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, underwater video systems are largely used by marine ecologists to study the
biodiversity in underwater environments. These systems are non-destructive, do not perturb …

Global drivers of reef fish growth

RA Morais, DR Bellwood - Fish and Fisheries, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Few studies have attempted to understand how fish growth scales at community and
macroecological levels. This study evaluated the drivers of reef fish growth across a large …

Human exploitation shapes productivity–biomass relationships on coral reefs

RA Morais, SR Connolly… - Global Change Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reef fisheries support the livelihoods of millions of people in tropical countries, despite
large‐scale depletion of fish biomass. While human adaptability can help to explain the …