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Read this month's featured article: Deep diving behaviour in oceanic manta rays and its potential function

Conference Partnership Spotlight

Florida Keys Marine Science Conference and Workshop Research Topic: Exploring and Safeguarding the Marine Ecosystems of the Florida Keys. A Special Collection dedicated to Dr. Billy Causey, John Halas, and Dr. Walter C. Jaap.

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Research Topic Spotlight

Contribute to this collection investigating the effects of anthropogenic stressors at multiple levels of biological organization, from populations to ecosystems, across coastal and deep-sea environments

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Marine Ecosystem Ecology

Submit your research

Author guidelines

Editor guidelines

Peer review

Publishing fees

Journal notices

Editor's Choice Article

Conference Partnership Spotlight

Author Guidelines

Research Topic Spotlight

Frontiers FAIR² now open!

Editors

stelios katsanevakis

heliana teixeira

stefano aliani

jesper h. andersen

Articles

Diversity and spatial distribution of pelagic amphipods in the Western Ross Sea and the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean

Seasonal analysis of Southern Ocean copepod ecology using a moored sediment trap

Diel vertical distribution of copepods during spring in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean

Insights on the last sea urchin Diadema africanum mass mortality suggest a worldwide Diadematid pandemic in 2022-2023

Research Topics

Ocean-based Solutions for Clean Shipping: Environmental Performance of Emerging Marine Fuels

Mangrove Restoration and Its Ecological Consequences

Shifting Reefs: Ecological Change, Drivers, and Solutions for Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems

Integrating Ecological Methods for Coastal Wetland Protection: Innovative Monitoring, Management, and Restoration