The movement behavior of blue whales in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) is not well understood, especially regarding the migration of Northeast (NEP) and Southeast (SEP) Pacific populations. This study presents tracking ...

(All information expressed below is also available in the "read me" text file.)   Atlantic reef fishes: distributions and life-history traits (VERSION 1) Upload date: September 3rd, 2024 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.13655554   Isadora ...

In 2022, a comprehensive, curated, updated list of the marine fish fauna of the US Virgin Islands drew on existing published sources of information, museum records available from online databases of various museums, ...

Tropical reef ecosystems are strongly influenced by the composition of coral species, but the factors influencing coral diversity and distributions are not fully understood. Here we demonstrate that large variations in the ...

In an era of global change, the fate and form of reef habitats will depend on shifting assemblages of organisms and their responses to multiple stressors. Multiphyletic assemblages of calcifying and bioeroding species ...

Hybridization is important in evolution, because it is a necessary (though not sufficient) step in the introgression of potentially adaptive variation between species. Bindin is a gamete recognition protein in echinoids ...

Descriptions of the rich sponge faunas inhabiting mangrove roots at various Caribbean sites are unanimous in pointing out the heterogeneity of species distribution and abundance patterns at all scales, from different ...