The team found that the diversity and makeup of fish communities across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have changed dramatically since the 1990s. The findings indicate that the pace of change has ...

"Our study shows that changes in fish diversity on the Great Barrier Reef were strongly correlated with shifts in coral composition, and to a lesser extent with fluctuations in coral cover ...

plays the most crucial role in driving the diversity of fish that depend upon it. The Great Barrier Reef ecosystem faces many pressures with some, such as coral bleaching and cyclones, becoming ...

These parasites are significant in aquatic ecosystems, as they can affect the health of fish populations and, consequently, the fishing industry. Recent research has focused on the diversity of ...

How these differences in species diversity originated is one of the questions ... This lake offered an ideal habitat for the 3–4 cm large fish. In total, the research team managed to excavate ...

Here, we sampled fish communities of 20 sites during autumn (November 2023) and spring (April 2024) in Zhoushan Fishing Ground. Taxonomic diversity (TD), functional diversity (FD), and functional ...

Genetic diversity within many species is declining ... For example, birds were more impacted by land-use change, and fish by harvesting, the study found. One-fifth of the species analyzed are ...

The primary objective was to assess the influence of water masses and environmental variables on the spatial and temporal distribution and diversity of fish communities in the SBYRE. The results ...

The formerly abundant native fish have seen their population plummet in recent decades. Today’s proposal is the result of petitions first filed in 1994 and multiple lawsuits by the Center for ...