Fernando C. Moraes

TL;DR: An extensive carbonate system off the Amazon mouth, underneath the river plume, is presented, providing several insights about the responses of tropical reefs to suboptimal and marginal reef-building conditions, which are accelerating worldwide due to global changes.

TL;DR: The presence of archaeal amoA genes in Porifera suggests that Archaea are involved in the nitrogen cycle within the sponge holobiont, possibly increasing its resistance to anthropogenic impacts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize previous bleaching events in the tropical Western South Atlantic Ocean and explore taxonomic, cross-shelf and habitat-related bleaching trends in the Abrolhos reefs in February, May, June and October 2016, and March 2017.

TL;DR: In this article, the exact solution for the geodesic equation for an elastic medium with a generic line defect, the dispiration, that can either be a screw dislocation or a wedge disclination for particular choices of its parameters, is given.

TL;DR: Underwater cores used to investigate Late Holocene reef growth and characterise the main framework builders in the Abrolhos Shelf show a complex framework building system dominated by bryozoans, and propose that a combination of historical factors with the low storm-disturbance regime of the tropical South Atlantic contributed to the region’s low diversity.