ArticleScientific reports2018
Below the Mesophotic.
Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed.
- Depth is a strong driver of functional diversity in Caribbean reef-fish communities.Oecologia · 2026Article
- Deeper Caribbean reef fish communities show greater taxonomic and functional change in dominance structure over a nine-year period.Coral reefs (Online) · 2026Article
- Vulnerability of tropical fish communities across depth in the central Indian Ocean.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Article
- First Observations of a Deep-Water Seagrass Meadow (Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Article
- Recent trends and biases in mesophotic ecosystem research.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Vertical structure of Caribbean deep-reef fishes from the altiphotic to deep-sea boundary.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Invertebrate sounds from photic to mesophotic coral reefs reveal vertical stratification and diel diversity.Oecologia · 2024Article
- 3D ocean assessments reveal that fisheries reach deep but marine protection remains shallow.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Article
- The global depth range of marine fishes and their genetic coverage for environmental DNA metabarcoding.Ecology and evolution · 2023Review
- Two new species ofZooKeys · 2023Article
- Community composition of coral-associated Symbiodiniaceae differs across fine-scale environmental gradients in Kāne'ohe Bay.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Article
- Trait-based vulnerability reveals hotspots of potential impact for a global marine invader.Global change biology · 2021Article
- Novel approach to enhance coastal habitat and biotope mapping with drone aerial imagery analysis.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Article
- Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide.Biodiversity data journal · 2021Article
- The marine fishes of St Eustatius Island, northeastern Caribbean: an annotated, photographic catalog.ZooKeys · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Mesophotic coral ecosystems, which occur at depths of ~40 to 150 m, have received recent scientific attention as potential refugia for organisms inhabiting deteriorating shallow reefs. These ecosystems merit research in their own right, as they harbor both depth-generalist species and a distinctive reef-fish fauna. Reef ecosystems just below the mesophotic are globally underexplored, and the scant recent literature that mentions them often suggests that mesophotic ecosystems transition directly into those of the deep sea. Through submersible-based surveys in the Caribbean Sea, we amassed the most extensive database to date on reef-fish diversity between ~40 and 309 m at any single tropical location. Our data reveal a unique reef-fish assemblage living between ~130 and 309 m that, while taxonomically distinct from shallower faunas, shares strong evolutionary affinities with them. Lacking an existing name for this reef-faunal zone immediately below the mesophotic but above the deep aphotic, we propose "rariphotic." Together with the "altiphotic," proposed here for the shallowest reef-faunal zone, and the mesophotic, the rariphotic is part of a depth continuum of discrete faunal zones of tropical reef fishes, and perhaps of reef ecosystems in general, all of which warrant further study in light of global declines of shallow reefs.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.