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Explore our latest research and findings that drive marine conservation and innovation. From groundbreaking studies to insightful reviews, our publications reflect our commitment to advancing marine science and policy.

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Fine-scale spatial and temporal trends in Red Sea coral reef research
Review Year: 2024 DOI:10.1016/j.rsma.2024.103404
Authors: Jesse E.M. Cochran, Alexander Kattan, Ute Langner, Anna M. Knochel, Susana Carvalho, Darren Coker, Lucy Fitzgerald, Kiana Ford, Micaela S.S. Justo, Royale S. Hardernstine, Viktor Nunes Peinemann, Lucia Pombo-Ayora, Milica Predagovic, Water A. Rich, Kirsty Scott, Hailey Shchepanik, Lyndsey K. Tanabe, Matthew D. Tietbohl, Collin T. Williams, Michael L. Berumen

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  • Systematic review
  • Hotsopt analysis
  • Tropical ecosystems
  • Marginal Seas
The Red Sea cryptobiome: Spatial and temporal patterns
Book Chapter ISSN:9781032342900 DOI:DOI: 10.1201/9781003321392-3
Authors: Susana Carvalho, John K. Pearman
Coral Reefs and Associated Marine Fauna around the Arabian Peninsula
  • Cryptofauna
  • Red Sea
  • Biodiversity
  • Coral reefs
Eukaryotic diversity patterns in the Red Sea: from the surface to the deep
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1295997
Authors: John K. Pearman, Burton Jones, Maryam Qashqari, Susana Carvalho
  • Eukaryotes
  • 18S rRNA
  • Assembly processes
  • Deterministic
  • Stochastic
  • Red Sea
Too hot to handle? An urgent need to understand climate change impacts on the biogeochemistry of tropical coastal waters
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17074
Authors: Cátia Carreira, Patrick W. S. Joyce, Xosé Anxelu G. Morán, Susana Carvalho, Laura Falkenberg, Christian Lønborg
  • Acclimation
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Climate change
  • Coastal waters
  • Datasets
  • Impact
  • Knowledge gap
  • Stressors
  • Tropic
Camptoplax ahmar sp. nov., a new pilumnid crab (Crustacea: Brachyura) from the Red Sea
Research article Year: 2024
Authors: Peter K L Ng, Arthur Anker
  • Crustacea
  • Brachyuran crab
  • Pilumnidae
  • Infauna
  • Indian Ocean
  • Red Sea
A second species in the polychaete-associated crab genus Gustavus Ahyong & Ng, 2009 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Aphanodactylidae)
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.3
Authors: Peter K L Ng, Arthur Anker
  • Crustacea
  • Thoracotremata
  • Integrative taxonomy
  • New taxon
  • Symbiosis
  • Terebellidae
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Indian Ocean
  • Genus range extension
Molecular diversity and patterns of co-occurrence of decapod crustaceans associated with branching corals in the central Red Sea
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01457-1
Authors: Laura Macrina, Tullia Isotta Terraneo, Roberto Arrigoni, Davide Maggioni, Matthew D. Tietbohl, Arthur Anker, Robert M Lasley Jr, Melissa Pappas, Michael Lee Berumen, Francesca Benzoni
  • Decapoda
  • Phylogeny
  • Symbiosis
  • Coral reefs
  • Integrative taxonomy
Venomous Foes in Mediterranean Africa: Occurrence of Physalia physalis (Linnaeus, 1758), and First Records of Glaucus atlanticus Forster, 1777 for Algeria and Tunisia
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-024-00706-1
Authors: Sahar Chebaane, Juan Sempere-Valverde, Andrea Desiderato, Sonia K M Gueroun, Francesco Tiralongo, Ernesto Azzurro, Ramla Bouhlel, Emma Derouiche, Yassine Ramzi Sghaier
  • Citizen science
  • Pleuston
  • Neuston
  • Harmful fauna
  • Mediterranean Sea
Plasticlusters: A marine litter microhabitat in a marina of Tunisia, N Africa
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116389
Authors: Juan Sempere-Valverde, Pablo Saenz-Arias, Anastasiia Marynova, Ons Benzarti, Ramla Bouhlel, Carlos Maria López Fe de la Cuadra, José Manuel Guerra-García, Sahar Chebaane
  • Non-indigenous species
  • Marinas
  • Plastic debris
  • Artificial habitat
  • Floating substrata
Localization and symbiotic status of probiotics in the coral holobiont
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00261-24
Authors: Pedro M Cardoso, L J Hill, Helena D M Villela, C L S Vilela, J M Assis, Phillipe M Rosado, João G Rosado, M A Chacon, M E Majzoub, Gustavo A S Duarte, T Thomas, Raquel S Peixoto
  • Coral probiotics
  • Beneficial microorganisms for corals
  • FISH
  • Coral-associated microbes
  • Tissue
  • Location
  • Halomonas sp.
  • Cobetia sp.
Exploring the Potential Molecular Mechanisms of Interactions between a Probiotic Consortium and Its Coral Host
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1128/msystems.00921-22
Authors: Phillipe M Rosado, Pedro M Cardoso, João G Rosado, Júnia Schultz, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, Tina Keller-Costa, Raquel S Peixoto
  • Beneficial microorganisms for corals
  • Coral probiotics
  • Genomes
  • Mechanisms
  • Symbiosis
  • Molecular interactions
  • Holobiont
Probiotics reshape the coral microbiome in situ without detectable off-target effects in the surrounding environment
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06135-3
Authors: Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez, Neus Garcia-Bonet, Inês Raimundo, Francisca C García, Helena Villela, Eslam O Osman, Erika P Santoro, Joao Curdia, Joao G. D. Rosado, Pedro Cardoso, Ahmed Alsaggaf, Adam Barno, Chakkiath Paul Antony, Carolina Bocanegra, Michael L. Berumen, Christian R. Voolstra, Francesca Benzoni, Susana Carvalho, Raquel S Peixoto
  • Probiotics
  • Microbiome
  • Coral reefs
  • Beneficial microorganisms for corals
  • Red Sea
Disentangling eukaryotic biodiversity patterns from man-made environments (port and marina) and nearby coral reefs in the Red Sea: A focus on the surveillance of non-indigenous species
Research article Year: 2024
Authors: Eva Aylagas, Hailey Shchepanik, John K. Pearman, Bruno Parisi, Joao Curdia, Michael L. Berumen, Susana Carvalho
  • Biosecurity
  • Coral reefs
  • invasive species
  • Man-made environments
  • Metabarcoding
Mangrove Ecotourism along the Coasts of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Systematic Review
Research article Year: 2024
Authors: Lara G. Moussa, Midhun Mohan, Nicola Burmeister, Shalini A. L. King, John A. Burt, Stefanie M Rog, Michael S. Watt, Susantha Udagedara, Lara Sujud, Jorge F. Montenegro, Joe Eu Heng, Susana Almeida Carvalho, Tarig Ali, Pavithra S. Pitumpe Arachchige, Jasem A. Albanai, Frida Sidik, Amin Shaban, Martha Lucia Palacios Peñaranda, Naji El Beyrouthy, Ana Novo, Meshal M. Abdullah, Ammar Abulibdeh, Talal Al-Awadhi, Adrián Cardil, Ewane Basil Ewane, Bijeesh K. Veettil
  • Ecoturism
  • MangrovesEcotourismGulf Cooperation Council CountriesSystematic review
Responses of the coral reef cryptobiome to environmental gradients in the Red Sea
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301837
Authors: Rodrigo Villalobos, Eva Aylagas, Joanne I. Ellis, John K. Pearman, Holger Anlauf, Joao Curdia, Diego Lozano-Cortes, Alejandro Mejia, Florian Roth, Michael L. Berumen, Susana Carvalho
  • Coral reefs
  • Red Sea
  • Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)
Biodiversity patterns of the coral reef cryptobiota around the Arabian Peninsula
Research article Year: 2024 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60336-8
Authors: Rodrigo Villalobos, Eva Aylagas, John K. Pearman, Joao Curdia, Darren Coker, Alyssa Clothilde Bell, Shannon D. Brown, Katherine Rowe, Diego Lozano-Cortés, Lotfi J. Rabaoui, Alyssa Marshell, Mohammad Qurban, Burton Jones, Michael Lee Berumen, Susana Carvalho
  • Biogeography
  • ARMS
  • Red Sea
  • Gulf of Oman
  • Coelobites
  • Cryptofauna
  • Distribution patterns
  • Biodiversity
  • Community ecology
  • Coral reefs
  • Ecology
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