Juliano Morais

TL;DR: The results reinforce the notion that corals are sensitive to anthropogenic changes and reveal the scarcity of information on coral responses to pollution, tourism, overfishing and acidification, particularly in mesophotic ecosystems and in ecoregions outside the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean.

TL;DR: The deep reef refuge hypothesis (DRRH) predicts that deep coral reefs may act as refuges against major disturbances affecting shallow reefs, but to date, a few studies have explicitly examined its validity at the community level as mentioned in this paper.