To survey hard-to-reach mesophotic reefs located between 100 and 500 feet (30 to 150 meters) deep, in the ocean's so-called "twilight zone," they relied on specialized diving gear which few ...

A research group in Italy has developed two new coral protection technologies for healing and restoring coral reefs: a ...

Mesophotic coral bleaching associated with changes in thermocline depth. Nature Communications, 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42279-2 ...

Mesophotic coral reefs, currently defined as deep reefs between 30 and 150 m, are linked physically and biologically to their shallow water counterparts, have the potential to be refuges for shallow ...

“It wasn't something we were expecting to see,” says Foster, who studies deeper-water coral ecosystems called mesophotic reefs at the University of Plymouth in England. Mesophotic reefs would ...

More information: Noriyuki Satoh et al, Using underwater mini-ROV for coral eDNA survey: a case study in Okinawan mesophotic ecosystems, Coral Reefs (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s00338-024-02597-3 ...

Possible monitoring of mesophotic scleractinian corals using an underwater mini-ROV to sample coral eDNA. Royal Society Open Science, 2024; 11 (2) DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221586 ...

Once a shallow-water barrier reef system, it now exists in a fossilised form at roughly 50 metres water depth and is now the home to deeper reef communtites in the mesophotic zone 30 to 150 metres ...

A scleractinian coral eDNA survey at four mesophotic sites using an underwater mini-ROV. (a) Four monitoring locations (SR1-SR4) at the Shigeo Reef near Motobu Peninsula. The location of Okinawa ...