The term cold-water coral sensu lato groups taxa with a more or less pronounced frame-
building ability (eg Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata) with forest-forming organisms …

Despite more than 60 yr of coral reef research using scuba diving, mesophotic coral
ecosystems (MCEs) between 30 and 150 m depth remain largely unknown. This study …

Temperature drives biological responses that scale from the cellular to ecosystem levels and
thermal sensitivity will shape organismal functions and population dynamics as the world …

Worldwide coral reefs face catastrophic damage due to a series of anthropogenic stressors.
Investigating how coral reefs ecosystems are connected, in particular across depth, will help …

Invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) are now ubiquitous throughout the
Caribbean and Western Atlantic on shallow and deep reefs. Recent surveys in Bermuda …

Bermuda's subtropical coral reefs represent the northernmost reef system in the Atlantic
Ocean, and consist of a large lagoon with thousands of patch reefs, bounded along the edge …

As the most northern ecoregion within the Tropical Northwestern Atlantic biogeographic
province, Bermuda's reef biodiversity is a reduced complement of that found within the other …

Bermuda's reefs support populations of corals and fishes, derived from the Caribbean fauna,
which show distinctive characteristics in regards to reproduction and growth. Bermuda's …

Octocorals have now become the most visually dominant metazoan benthic taxa of most
Caribbean reefs, following the precipitous decline of scleractinian corals. Yet taxonomic …

The black coral fauna of Bermudan waters is poorly known, in large part due to the logistical
challenges of surveying deep-water (> 50 m) environments where most species occur. In …