A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...

In terrestrial forest and coral reef environments, scientists have long understood how this sort of "state shift," as this foundational habitat change is called, can alter food web dynamics.

New research has revealed that the decline of kelp forests in the Gulf of Maine is reshaping marine food webs and energy dynamics. Scientists found that predator-prey interactions and nutrient ...

After a mass algal die-off in the Pacific, researchers used satellites, undergrads, artificial intelligence and children in tide pools to figure out what was lost—and how it might come back.

The Santa Barbara Channel's kelp forests and its sandy beaches are intimately connected. Giant kelp, the foundation species of rocky reefs, serves as a major part of the beach food web as fronds ...

The Great Southern Reef (GSR) is an intricate system of interconnected temperate rocky reefs, extending from Western Australia’s coast along the southern coast of continental Australia and ...

Fourteen years ago, Goldblatt started the Fish Reef Project, working to restore local native kelp forests. He tells me they were wiped out off the coast of Goleta during a 1983 El Niño.

Long-term changes to kelp forests from 'the blob' ... who has an eye on potential effects on the local food web, ... Big Differences in How Coral Reef Fish Larvae Are Dispersed.

The "Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef" exhibit is now on view in Natural History's Sant Ocean Hall. Eric Long, SI The Natural History Museum's Baird Auditorium showcases scientists and performers ...

Giant kelp portrait at Port Davey in Tasmania .Credit Stefan Andrews courtesy Great Southern Reef Foundation. And yet it’s an even bigger biodiversity hotspot, with 70 per cent of its species ...

In terrestrial forest and coral reef environments, scientists have long understood how this sort of "state shift," as this foundational habitat change is called, can alter food web dynamics.

In terrestrial forest and coral reef environments, scientists have long understood how this sort of “state shift,” as this foundational habitat change is called, can alter food web dynamics.