Sponges are a major component of benthic ecosystems across the world and fulfil a number
of important functional roles. However, despite their importance, there have been few …

Bioerosion is the destruction of hard substrates resulting from biological activity, and plays a
relevant role in the ecological interactions and coastal dynamics processes. Several …

Diet in fish is influenced by multiple factors including nutritional requirements, trophic
morphology and spatial and temporal variation in resource availability. We examined spatial …

Tourism is the main income source for the Maldives, but concurrently, it represents a
growing threat to its marine ecosystem. Here, we monitored the bioaccumulation of 15 …

The northern Adriatic continental shelf hosts several coralligenous reefs rising from the
sedimentary bottom and characterized by three main benthic assemblages, respectively …

Substratum preferences and contact interactions among sessile organisms can be a major
determinant of biotic gradients in the structure of benthic communities on coral reefs …

Endolithic sponges are key players in carbonate cycling on coral reef systems. While their
bioerosion of reef framework is relatively well studied, their role in biogenic sediment …

The speciose scarinine clade of coral reef parrotfishes display significant variation in trophic
cranial morphology, yet are often described as generalist herbivores. The hypothesis that …

Coral reefs have experienced extensive degradation across the world over the last 50 years
as a result of a variety of stressors operating at a range of spatial and temporal scales. In …

The coralligenous build-ups located in Mediterranean shelf in front of Marzamemi (SE–
Sicily, Italy) represent useful natural examples to study the relationship between skeletal …