Coral reefs, under threat from global warming, may be saved by attracting fish through music played underwater. The bizarre theory has come from a new study that suggested putting underwater ...

Ocean acidification can cause reckless behavior in coral reef fish. But researchers say that coral reef environments have large chemical variations daily, which can offer recovery time for fish.

Thirty years of change of fish communities in South China Sea Daya Bay is a representative semi-enclosed bay in the South China Sea, with a variety of ecosystems including mangroves, coral reefs ...

The health of coral reefs can be impacted as much by the diversity of fish that graze on them as by the amount of fish that do so, according to a new study. In the paper, the researchers untangle ...

Rapid resource depletion on coral reefs disrupts competitor recognition processes among butterflyfish species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023; 290 (1990) DOI: 10. ...

Where fishing was forbidden, coral reefs had 2 to 3 times the number of fish species and 3 to 11 times more live coral. The short video from the American Museum of Natural History recaps their paper, ...

This paper reviews the effects of long-term protective management on fish abundances at coral-reef reserves and nonreserves and on fish yields at nonreserves at four small islands in the central ...