This paper provides a global context for how much environmental variables vary geographically, including with depth in the ocean. Depth profiles of temperature, oxygen, nutrients, current velocity, and seabed slope, are provided. Geographic patterns for these...

Dinusha Jayathilake has published a new world map of the seagrass biome. It fills significant gaps in previous maps, and thus doubles the estimated area of seagrass globally to be 1,650,000 km². However, whether seagrass still occurs at all the map locations, or has...

Congratulations to Tri Arfianti who has just published her second paper as part of her PhD. This analysis of rates of description of amphipod crustaceans predicts one third of species remain to be described. In addition, the data indicated that pelagic amphipods are...

Congratulations to Maria Charry for her paper showing how native New Zealand benthic and planktonic copepods can be used to monitor toxicity in estuaries. The benthic harpacticoid and planktonic calanoid species were sensitive to metals in sediments and water...

The Coral Triangle, encompassing Indonesia, the Philippines and neighbouring countries, contains the highest density of marine species in the world, and exceptionally high numbers of endemic species (Asaad et al. 2018). Thus conserving its marine life is a priority...