Coral Reef Papers

This open access special issue focuses on large-scale monitoring efforts that inform ecological and management topics that are highly relevant and timely as coral reefs worldwide continue to decline....

Coralliths are spherical, free-living (motile), scleractinian colonies inhabiting present day and ancient coral reefs. They form by the coral rolling on the seabed which can occur through biological and/or physical processes. While diving and snorkeling in nearshore environments in the upper Florida Keys, we observed...