By Marco Lopez Rosie knows the Lighthouse Reef Atoll like the back of her fin. She calls this atoll home and is a matriarch of the thriving population of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) ...

High sedimentation rates can also bury or smother these sessile animals ... also a hallmark of coral reef ecosystems. Juvenile wrasses, blennies, gobies, and shrimps live on large corals that ...

Corals and the reef bottom they live on need to ... reef health and promoting coral recovery. This strategy has spurred governments in many countries, including Belize, Bermuda, Guatemala ...