Peter J. Ralph

TL;DR: Seagrass diversity in Australia is amongst the highest in the world, in part due to the overlap of diverse tropical and temperate floras as mentioned in this paper. But the diversity of seagrasses is not a taxonomically unified group but a "biological" or "ecological" group.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the development of omics and molecular profiling and the utilization of molecular markers in the field of seagrass biology, and highlights the advances, merits and pitfalls associated with such technology.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated, for the first time, both intra- and extracellular O2 production in Symbiodinium cultures, which has the potential to mediate the breakdown of symbiotic interaction between zooxanthellae and their animal host during coral bleaching.

TL;DR: In this paper, in situ photosynthetic efficiency (FV/FM), dissolved and particulate nutrients, iron biological uptake, and nitrogen and carbon fixation were used to determine the factor-limiting phytoplankton growth and productivity in the North Tasman Sea and the subantarctic zone (SAZ).

TL;DR: The results show that optical properties of the coral host strongly affect light use efficiency of Symbiodinium, and relative electron transport rates do not reflect the productivity rates (or indeed how the photosynthesis-light response is parameterised), and a non-invasive approach is provided to estimate absolute electrons transport rates in corals.