Helen Ford

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how plastic contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the beginning to the end of its life cycle, and show that more extreme weather and floods associated with climate change, will exacerbate the spread of plastic in the natural environment.

TL;DR: This work highlights the biologically unique nature of benthic communities in the mesophotic and rariphotic zones, and their limited connectivity to shallow reefs, thus emphasizing the need to manage and protect deeper reefs as distinct entities.

TL;DR: Taxonomic richness was lowest at depth and below the deep-scattering layer, suggesting lower competitive displacement in these more food-limited waters, and omnivory and carnivory, were the dominant trophic traits.

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial structure of ecological communities on tropical coral reefs across seascapes and geographies have been studied using spatially expansive and thematically resolved benthic community data collected around five uninhabited central Pacific oceanic islands spanning 6° latitude and 17° longitude.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) systematic mapping guidelines to identify relevant studies using a framework-based synthesis to summarise the spatial and temporal scales of coral reef fish ecology research and the scales at which management inferences or recommendations are made.