A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has revealed that the network of no-take marine reserves supplies nearly half of the ...

Actually, it's more like eat and be eaten for most organisms ... where it lies in wait for crustaceans and small fish, such as gobies. Safely tucked in coral crevices or half-buried in sand ...

The parrot fish are an integral part of the coral reef ecosystem because they eat the excess algae, which allows the coral to survive. The result was that algae growth soon overtook the coral and ...

And what they do is, they can devastate coral reefs because they eat coral. And our concern ... kind of home to loads of animals and loads of fish and these starfish are very, very good at ...

“And to improve the whole ecosystem, predation is really, really important on coral reefs.” Roi only eat about 2.5 times their body mass over a year, while other predator fish, like ...

Yet due to global warming, already-delicate coral reefs throughout the Caribbean and along ... We've also sued to protect these delicate corals from the overfishing of fish that eat marine algae — ...

The small orange and white fish hides in the holes of coral to keep safe, researchers said. Shepherd B, Pinheiro HT, Najeeb A, Rocha CR, Rocha LA (2025) ZooKeys Want to read more? Check out our ...

Researchers have discovered a rare example of "great fish parenting" with a common coral reef species found to actively protect their young by eating parasites. The University of Queensland's Dr ...