Stony corals rely on their association with symbiotic algae for their growth and health. However, corals can lose these symbionts in response to heat stress and bleach, but they can also recover from...

Tropical coral reef ecosystems are rapidly transitioning to an era of increasing anthropogenic impacts. In particular, plastic pollution has been identified ...

University of Waterloo researchers have pinpointed for the first time how microplastics accumulate in coral reefs, a key step to understanding how to protect vulnerable ecosystems. A team at Waterloo’...

The pollution of marine environments with plastics, particularly microplastic (MP, i.e., plastic particles <5 mm), is a major threat to marine biota, …

Marine debris, particularly microdebris (< 1 mm) poses a potential threat to marine life, including reef-building corals. While previous research has …

The negative impacts of microplastic on reef-building corals are often attributed to the feeding responses to these particles. Although reactions to a…

Microplastics are omnipresent in the oceans and threaten marine animals through physical contact or ingestion. Short-term studies have already shown that ree...

To investigate whether tropical shallow-water reef-building corals can act as long-term sinks for microplastics, we exposed four common reef-building coral species to polyethylene microplastics for 1....

Plastic pollution is an emerging stressor that increases pressure on ecosystems such as coral reefs that are already challenged by climate change. How…

Coral reefs are increasingly affected by the consequences of global change such as increasing temperatures or pollution. Lately, microplastics (i.e., …

Pollution of marine environments with microplastic particles (i.e. plastic fragments <5 mm) has increased rapidly during the last decades. As these pa…

The increasing interest in 3D morphological approaches for addressing evolutionary and ecological questions has driven the need for reliable, efficient, and easily accessible methods for shape qua...