One of the greatest challenges facing marine ecologists today is finding innovative ways to reverse the rapid decline of coral reef ecosystems around the world. To address this crisis, an ...

As the hurricane season for 2020 begins, the Bahamas is still recovering from Hurricane Dorian, which struck the island last year as a historic Category 5 storm.

Even before Hurricane Dorian, the reefs were in jeopardy. In 2016, the Perry Institute, based in Waitsfield, Vt., found reefs in the Bahamas to be under stress and classified them as impaired, the ...

Effects of predator presence and habitat complexity on reef fish communities in The Bahamas. Marine Biology , 2019; 166 (10) DOI: 10.1007/s00227-019-3568-3 Cite This Page : ...

By 2014, half of the world’s coral reefs — and, again, almost all the staghorn corals of the Bahamas — had been lost already, to a combination of disease, pollution, overfishing and heat ...

In 2008, a study found Caribbean groupers, a common and widespread group of medium-to-large sized coral reef fishes, were eating lionfish in the Bahamas. ... the Bahamas, Isabelle Côté, ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— Sharks and other predatory fish are scarce across Caribbean coral reefs because of decades of overfishing, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances. But ...

Fish urine plays an important role in coral reefs' food chain—but unsustainable fishing can devastate this natural nutrient flow. By Michael Greshko August 19, 2016 ...

"The Bahamas Coral Gene Bank at Atlantis Paradise Island is more than a facility—it is a symbol of hope, a safeguard for biodiversity, and a strategic investment in long-term reef resilience.