Coral Reef Fish Are More Resilient Than We Thought, Study Finds : The Two-Way Ocean acidification can cause reckless behavior in coral reef fish. But researchers say that coral reef environments ...

An international team of researchers discovered that coral reef fish communities in the Seychelles did not return to the levels of species richness that existed before bleaching despite a 16-year ...

And if coral reef fish are able to find the smell of coral in the ocean, they follow that home like a yellow brick road.” Unfortunately, it also works the other way around. Fish are lured by the ...

These protected areas bring an incredible amount of biodiversity right into the bustling metropolis–including coral reefs.

Fish are the key ingredients in a new recipe to diagnose and restore degraded coral reef ecosystems, according to scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, WCS, James Cook ...

A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

For people who are not experts, what are the signs of a collapsing reef system? Firstly, less color, because there’s less ...

The idea is to lure back the tiny coral larvae needed to rebuild the reef. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Mooney explains that these tiny jelly-fish like animals get released from healthy ...

Coral reefs are like underwater rain forests — they’re incredibly diverse and are home to more than 6,000 species of fish, Brandl said. Yet the nutrients needed to maintain this abundance of ...

Until recently, fish that eat coral—corallivores—were thought to weaken reef structures, while fish that consume algae and detritus—grazers—were thought to keep reefs healthy. But ...

Fish poo can act as a "coral probiotic" in coral reefs. Carsten Grupstra. In a study with researchers from Rice University in Texas, Grupstra and his team discovered that the feces from these fish ...

At a time when the Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs are facing unprecedented destruction, researchers in Australia have found a small ray of hope for the fish that make the reefs their home.