The decline and disappearance of species from large parts of their former geographical
range has become an important issue in fisheries ecology. There is a need to identify which …

Human impacts on the world's oceans have been substantial, leading to concerns about the
extinction of marine taxa. We have compiled 133 local, regional and global extinctions of …

One of the main expected responses of marine fishes to ocean warming is decrease in body
size, as supported by evidence from empirical data and theoretical modeling. The theoretical …

Aim To understand why and when areas of endemism (provinces) of the tropical Atlantic
Ocean were formed, how they relate to each other, and what processes have contributed to …

Aim To evaluate the state of knowledge about the biogeography of Brazilian reef fishes and
propose processes that lead to the observed distribution patterns. Location The tropical …

The occurrence of lionfish Pterois volitans is reported from the western Atlantic Ocean.
Adults were collected off the coasts of North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and juveniles …

The high biodiversity in tropical seas provides a long-standing challenge to allopatric
speciation models. Physical barriers are few in the ocean and larval dispersal is often …

The distribution of circumtropical marine species is limited by continental boundaries, cold
temperate conditions, and oceanic expanses, but some of these barriers are permeable over …

We present new data and the first rigorous analysis of latitudinal and thermal gradients of
diversity, density and biomass of marine herbivorous fishes and review proposed …

The family Pomacentridae is a species-rich group of primarily marine fishes. The
phylogenetic relationships of the damselfishes are examined herein using sequence data …