"Coral reef roving predators (sharks, jacks, snappers) are generally believed to be depleted around human population centers. In Hawaii, most of the data to support this conclusion comes from underwater visual censuses of shallow water reef ecosystems (0-...

"The ongoing global coral bleaching event began in the North Pacific in the summer of 2014 and expanded to the South Pacific and Indian Oceans in 2015. The NOAA Coral Reef Watch outlook indicates it is likely to continue well into 2016. An ecosystem scale...

"For coral reef ecosystems, herbivorous fishes are believed to play a disproportionately large role in ecosystem processes of coral reefs. For example, by controlling algal overgrowth, herbivores contribute to reef resiliency to bleaching events. Herbivor...