Marine organisms are particularly sensitive to warming, partly because they have narrow "thermal safety margins".This is the difference between the environmental temperature and the maximum ...

Species known as marine habitat-forming species -- gorgonians, corals, algae, seaweeds, marine phanerogams, etc.-- are organisms that help generate and structure the underwater landscapes. These ...

Teeming with fish and other wildlife, offshore rigs like Platform Holly are in fact the most bountiful human-made marine habitats in the world. Alamy.

For marine habitats to be metabolically viable, the ratio must be larger than a critical value of one for resting metabolism or larger than a larger-than-one critical value for active metabolism.

Pollution, logging, dredging, draining of wetlands, and coastal development are all factors that lead to marine habitat destruction. The absence of cypress swamps (shown here), decimated by ...

Fishing nets leave precious marine habitats broken and scarred—but some are coming back to life. Some rare good news for coral reefs. By Kat Eschner. Published Aug 8, 2019 2:04 AM EDT.

A comprehensive analysis of more than 11,000 previous coastal-habitat measurements suggests that mangroves and seagrasses provide the greatest value as “nurseries” for young fishes and invertebrates, ...

62% of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) designated to protect rare migratory fish species are outside of their core habitats, according to a new modeling study.

The Town of St. James marked 20 years of its Living Shoreline project at Waterway Park, a community-driven conservation ...

Chris Pickerell, marine program director at Cornell Cooperatve Extension of Suffolk County, says officials hope to get about 50% or more survival rate among the young oysters introduced in ...

Warming oceans are changing marine habitats – study explores the impact on thousands of species Story by Andreas Schwarz Meyer, University of Cape Town and Christopher Trisos, University of Cape ...