A review of published literature on the sensitivity of corals to turbidity and sedimentation is
presented, with an emphasis on the effects of dredging. The risks and severity of impact from …

Given predicted increases in urbanization in tropical and subtropical regions, understanding
the processes shaping urban coral reefs may be essential for anticipating future …

Classifying the biological traits of organisms can test conceptual frameworks of life‐history
strategies and allow for predictions of how different species may respond to environmental …

Indonesia, the world's largest archipelagic country and the fourth most populated nation, has
struggled with coastal water pollution in the last decades. With the increasing population in …

Biological traits offer valuable approaches to understand species distributions and
underlying mechanisms. Their use has received a growing interest in marine community …

Resilience is usually defined as the capacity of an ecosystem to absorb disturbance without
shifting to an alternative state and losing function and services [1–3]. The concept therefore …

Aim Understanding the variation in community composition and species abundances (ie, β‐
diversity) is at the heart of community ecology. A common approach to examine β‐diversity …

Marine conservation increasingly focuses on describing and maintaining ecosystem
functioning. However, it is difficult to find suitable measures for whole-ecosystem functioning …

Species morpho-functional traits provide general and predictable rules to understand the
dynamics of ecological communities; therefore, considering species identity is crucial in …

Coral cover on Caribbean reefs has declined rapidly since the early 1980's. Diseases have
been a major driver, decimating communities of framework building Acropora and Orbicella …