by Cherie Wagner | May 19, 2014
Researchers in the Bahamas found that lionfish on culled reefs altered their behavior. They were less active and hid deeper during the day, when culling took place. This led them to hunt more often during dawn and dusk, which is also when their prey are more active....
by Cherie Wagner | May 19, 2014
Dr. Graham Edgar and his 24 co-authors stirred up the marine conservation world with their recent article in which they review 87 MPAs at 964 sites (in 40 countries) around the world using data generated by the authors and trained recreational divers. Their overall...
by Cherie Wagner | May 19, 2014
The authors explored the facilitation of herbivore functional groups (large excavators/bioeroders and scrapers/small excavators, parrotfishes in both cases) in coral and crustose coralline algae settlement, growth, and survival. They also investigated whether pooling...