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 …

Cold‐water species deepen to escape warm water temperatures

S Chaikin, S Dubiner, J Belmaker - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Whether marine species can respond to ocean warming by changing their depth
remains controversial. Some evidence suggests that species can deepen to cope with …

Coral morphology portrays the spatial distribution and population size-structure along a 5–100 m depth gradient

N Kramer, R Tamir, G Eyal, Y Loya - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Population size structure provides information on demographic characteristics, such as
growth and decline, enabling post-hoc assessment of spatial differences in susceptibility to …

A generalized light‐driven model of community transitions along coral reef depth gradients

JH Laverick, R Tamir, G Eyal… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Coral reefs shift between distinct communities with depth throughout the world. Yet,
despite over half a century of research on coral reef depth gradients, researchers have not …

Stylophora pistillata—A model colonial species in basic and applied studies

D Shefy, B Rinkevich - Handbook of Marine Model Organisms in …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Stylophora pistillata is a hermatypic branching coral, commonly found in the Indo-Pacific
reefs. Being an important “reef builder” and an ecological engineering species, Stylophora …

Plastic pollution in a coral reef climate refuge: Occurrence of anthropogenic debris, microplastics, and plasticizers in the Gulf of Aqaba

G Vered, N Shenkar - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gulf of Aqaba in the northern Red Sea, considered a coral reef refuge from the
negative effects of climate change, is however being subjected to increasing amounts of …

Contrasting coral community structures between natural and artificial substrates at Koh Tao, Gulf of Thailand

C Monchanin, R Mehrotra, E Haskin, CM Scott… - Marine Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Concrete cubic frames and decommissioned steel naval vessels have been deployed in
Thailand liberally to act as artificial substrates for coral restoration and marine recreation …

Symbiotic stony and soft corals: Is their host‐algae relationship really mutualistic at lower mesophotic reefs?

C Ferrier‐Pagès, V Bednarz, R Grover… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Mesophotic coral ecosystems (30–150 m depth) present a high oceanic
biodiversity, but remain one of the most understudied reef habitats, especially below 60 m …

Efficient light‐harvesting of mesophotic corals is facilitated by coral optical traits

N Kramer, R Tamir, O Ben‐Zvi, SL Jacques… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sustained light‐dependent coral reef communities can be found at a wide range of light
environments, extending from the sea level to as deep as 150 m (ie esophotic). How …

The red sea: Israel

G Eyal, R Tamir, N Kramer, L Eyal-Shaham… - Mesophotic coral …, 2019 - Springer
The mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) of Eilat, in the Northern Red Sea, are among the
best-studied worldwide, as demonstrated by the high number of publications from the …