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Typhoon damage on a shallow mesophotic reef in Okinawa, Japan | article
White KN, Ohara T, Fujii T, Kawamura I, Mizuyama M, Montenegro J, Shikiba H, Naruse T, McClelland TY, Denis V, Reimer JD (2013)
PeerJ 1:e151

Mesophotic reef fish assemblages of the remote St. Peter and St. Paul’s Archipelago, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Brazil | article
Rosa MR, Rosa MR, Alves AC, Medeiros DV, Coni EOC, Ferreira CM, Ferreira BP, Rosa RdS, Amado-Filho GM, Pereira-Filho GH, de Moura RL, Thompson FL, Sumida PYG, Francini-Filho RB (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:113-123

Mesophotic depths as refuge areas for fishery-targeted species on coral reefs | article
Lindfield SJ, Harvey ES, Halford AR, McIlwain JL (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:125-137

Caribbean mesophotic coral ecosystems are unlikely climate change refugia | article
Smith TB, Gyory J, Brandt ME, Miller WJ, Jossart J, Nemeth RS (2016)
Global Change Biol 22:2756–2765

An assessment of shallow and mesophotic reef brachyuran crab assemblages on the south shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i | article
Hurley KKC, Timmers MA, Godwin LS, Copus JM, Skillings DJ, Toonen RJ (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:103–112

Habitat heterogeneity reflected in mesophotic reef sediments | article
Weinstein DK, Klaus JS, Smith TB (2015)
Sediment Geol 329:177-187

Implications of Sponge Biodiversity Patterns for the Management of a Marine Reserve in Northern Australia | article
Przeslawski R, Alvarez B, Kool J, Bridge T, Caley MJ, Nichol S (2015)
PLoS ONE 10:e0141813

A rare ‘deep-water’ coral assemblage in a shallow lagoon in Micronesia | article
Muir PR, Wallace CC (2016)
Marine Biodiversity 46:543–544

Euphyllia paradivisa, a successful mesophotic coral in the northern Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba, Red Sea | article
Eyal G, Eyal-Shaham L, Cohen I, Tamir R, Ben-Zvi O, Sinniger F, Loya Y (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:91-102

Population Structure of Montastraea cavernosa on Shallow versus Mesophotic Reefs in Bermuda | article
Goodbody-Gringley G, Marchini C, Chequer AD, Goffredo S (2015)
PLoS ONE 10:e0142427

Nutrient acquisition strategies in mesophotic hard corals using compound specific stable isotope analysis of sterols | article
Crandall JB, Teece MA, Estes BA, Manfrino C, Ciesla JH (2016)
J Exp Mar Bio Ecol 474:133-141

Mesophotic coral ecosystems under anthropogenic stress: a case study at Ponce, Puerto Rico | article
Appeldoorn R, Ballantine D, Bejarano I, Carlo M, Nemeth M, Otero E, Pagán F, Ruiz H, Schizas N, Sherman C, Weil E (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:63-75

Gametogenesis and fecundity of Acropora tenella (Brook 1892) in a mesophotic coral ecosystem in Okinawa, Japan | article
Prasetia R, Sinniger F, Harii S (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:53-62

New genus and new species of Caprellidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Amphipoda) from the mesophotic coral ecosystems of Puerto Rico and St. Croix, Cari... | article
Guerra-García JM, Chatterjee T, Schizas NV (2015)
Zootaxa 4018:80-96

Variability in chemical defense across a shallow to mesophotic depth gradient in the Caribbean sponge Plakortis angulospiculatus | article
Slattery M, Gochfeld DJ, Diaz MC, Thacker RW, Lesser MP (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:11-22

Modeling vertical coral connectivity and mesophotic refugia | article
Holstein DM, Paris CB, Vaz AC, Smith TB (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:23-37

A new, mesophotic Coryphopterus goby (Teleostei, Gobiidae) from the southern Caribbean, with comments on relationships and depth distributions with... | article
Baldwin CC, Robertson DR (2015)
Zookeys 513:123-142

Long term photoacclimation responses of the coral Stylophora pistillata to reciprocal deep to shallow transplantation: photosynthesis and calcifica... | article
Cohen I, Dubinsky Z (2015)
Front Mar Sci

Coral injuries observed at Mesophotic Reefs after the Deepwater Horizon oil discharge | article
Silva M, Etnoyer PJ, MacDonald IR (2016)
Deep Sea Res Part 2 Trop Stud Oceanogr 129:96-107

Baseline Assessment of Mesophotic Reefs of the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain Based on Water Quality, Microbial Diversity, Benthic Cover and Fish ... | article
Meirelles PM, Amado-Filho GM, Pereira-Filho GH, Pinheiro HT, de Moura RL, Joyeux J-C, Mazzei EF, Bastos AC, Edwards RA, Dinsdale E, Paranhos R, Santos EO, Lida T, Gotoh K, Nakamura S, Sawabe T, Rezende CE, Gadelha Jr LMR, Francini-Filho RB, Thompson C, Thompson FL (2015)
PLoS ONE 10:e0130084

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