Introduction to Rocky Reef

Giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas, Polyprionidae) are the largest reef-associated teleost in the northeastern Pacific, considered an important predator in Macrocystis kelp forest and rocky reef ecosystems.

Here we found evidence of marked modifications in the rocky reef associated biota in a Mediterranean MPA from 2009 to 2019 through visual census surveys, due to the presence of invasive species altering the structure of the ecosystem and triggering complex cascading effects on the long term.

We measured changes in the benthic community composition of rocky reefs through the infralittoral and mesophotic zone from 5 to 120 m at 6 locations across New Zealand (the Poor Knights Islands, the inner, mid-, and outer regions of the Fiordland Marine Area [FMA], and the North and South Taranaki Bights) which we considered as potential shallow-water TME surrogates due to these sites having environmental conditions and biological communities similar to deeper-water communities.

The island is surrounded by rocky reefs composed of Neogene bedrock consisting of moderately hard and soft sandstones and conglomerates belonging to the Tipam Sandstone (Islam in Bangladesh J Univ Sheffield Geol Soc 7:269–275, 1980 ).

Hawksbills (Eretmochelys imbricata) are among the most-imperiled sea turtles and are generally thought to associate with very specific coral and rocky reef habitats.

We then applied the species generalization index to evaluate potential impacts of habitat loss and range shifts across large scales, on coral and rocky reefs.

Our study investigated the abundance status of benthic species living mainly on rocky reefs as deep as 50 meters.

Comprehensive and long-running monitoring of rocky reefs exist globally but are often limited to a small subset of reef platforms readily accessible to in-situ studies.

The site contains various steeply inclined bathymetric features, including a submerged pinnacle named Horse Rock and a rocky reef called “The Bitches”.

Most species occur on coral reefs, but some live in estuaries or on rocky reefs.

is described and represented based on the materials collected from the shallow and rocky reefs, Gulf of Mannar (Thoothukudi waters), Southern India.

The awareness activity was directed at dive centres before dives, addressing themes such as marine biodiversity, rocky reefs, biological invasions and citizen science.

This island is the most oceanic in the Gulf of California, and information on its rocky reefs is scarce.

This study examines the importance of habitat attributes to fish assemblages across a mosaic of inshore habitats: coral reefs, rocky reefs, macroalgae beds, and sand/rubble beds.

The senior author observed and documented on video agonistic behavior between two fishes living on a rocky reef located at the south end of Cat Rock, Anacapa Island (34°00’12.

Natural and human-induced stressors have threatened the sustainability of the fish communities of coral-rocky reefs worldwide in the last decades.

Constant grazing of kelp holdfasts by overabundant sea urchins causes catastrophic ecological and economic impacts on rocky reefs worldwide.

Given that topography is highly spatially variable in rocky reef habitats, our targeted approach seeks to identify and replicate the ‘best’ types of reef topography to satisfy specific eco-engineering objectives.

We limited our database to localities situated between latitudes 51ºN and 45ºS that including shallow and upper mesophotic biogenic and/or rocky reefs habitats.

Sand sourced from the Shoalhaven River is retained within the northernmost of three tertiary compartments, Seven Mile Beach, as cliffed headlands and rocky reefs restrict along-shore sediment contributions from the south and inhibit leakage to the north.

Non-destructive methodologies based on the use of artificial substrates (AS) for quantitative sampling of macrofauna have been used to solve sampling problems in complex benthic environment, such as rocky reefs.

Research on the ecological consequences of terrain have focused on coral reefs, rocky reefs, continental shelves and the deep sea (n ≥ 20 studies), but are rarely tested in estuaries (n = 7).

This paper presents the first quantitative assessment of the rocky reef ecology of St Helena, a remote island in the central tropical Atlantic.

Rocky reefs are particularly exposed to such environmental changes with ongoing trends of degradation being impressive.

The present study aimed to examine how MPA status affects trophodynamics in the rocky reefs of the Illas Atlánticas Marine-Terrestrial National Park (Galicia, NW Spain).

In the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoMx), MCEs are rocky reefs with abundant black corals and octocorals, including the species Swiftia exserta.

These differences were likely due to the greater abundance of small and medium-sized boulders and lack of sand patches within the rocky reef at Empire Landing.

5 mm SL), collected from rocky reefs at 12–17 m depth from Taitokerau Northland, New Zealand.

Background In the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP), four species of parrotfishes with complex phylogeographic histories co-occur in sympatry on rocky reefs from Baja California to Ecuador: Scarus compressus , S.