Activity Rhythms Measurement in Suspension Feeders -- Animal Forest Through the Time: Historical Data to Understand Present Changes in Marine Ecosystems -- Animal Forests of the World: an overview -- Antarctic Marine Animal Forests - Three-Dimensional Communities in Southern Ocean Ecosystems -- Complexity and Biodiversity in Caribbean Coral Reefs -- Connexion of the Animal Forest with Land Ecosystems: The Example of Mangroves -- Corals as Architects of the Oceans -- Diversity and Evolution of Octocoral Animal Forests at Both Sides of Tropical America -- Ecosystem Functions and Services of the Marine Animal Forests -- Ecosystem-based Management: Opportunities and Challenges for Application in the Ocean Forest -- Evolution of the Marine Animal Forest -- Filter-feeding Zoobenthos and Hydrodynamics -- Harvesting and Collection of Animal Forest Species -- Interaction and Competition for Space in the Animal Forest -- Limits of Photoadaptation and Photoacclimation in Symbiotic Corals -- Macroalgae in the Animal Forest: The Example of Coral Reefs and the Mediterranean Coralligene -- Marine Animal Forests in South Atlantic Waters: A New World to Discover -- Neglected Part of the Animal Forest: Hydrozoans as an Example -- Octocoral and Hexacoral Diseases in a Changing Ocean -- Pollution Effects on Tropical Animal Forests -- Role of Fishes in Tropical Coral Reefs -- Secondary Metabolites and Chemical Ecology in the Animal Forest -- Seston Quality and Available Food: Importance in the Benthic Biogeochemical Cicles -- Where Seaweed Forests Meet Animal Forests: the Examples of Macroalgae in Coral Reefs and the Mediterranean Coralligene -- Why Corals Should Care About Ocean Acidification: General Consensus and Misconceptions -- Benthic-pelagic Coupling: New Perspectives in the Animal Forests -- Drawing the Line at Neglected Marine Ecosystems: Ecology of Vermetid Reefs in a Changing Ocean -- Energetics, Particle Capture, and Trophic Ecology of Suspension Feeders -- Importance of Recruitment Processes in the Dynamics and Resilience of Reef Coral Assemblages -- Living in the Canopy of the Animal forest: Physical and Chemical Aspects -- Resilience of the Animal Forest -- Demography of Animal Forests: the Example of Mediterranean Gorgonians -- Genetic Connectivity in Harvested and not Harvested Species: Resilience and Management -- Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems -- Restoration of the Animal Forests: Considering Silviculture Concepts in Coral Transplantation -- Sponge Grounds as Key Marine Habitats: a Synthetic Review of Types, Structure, Functional Roles, and Conservation Concerns -- Threats Affecting the Calcium Carbonate Budget of the Animal Forest -- Animal Forest in the Chilean Fiords: Discoveries and Perspectives in Shallow and Deep Waters -- Animal Forests in Deep Coastal Bottoms and Continental Shelves of the Mediterranean Sea -- Coexistence in Cold Waters: Animal Forests in Seaweed-Dominated Habitats in Southern High-Latitudes -- Conservation and Management of Vulnerable Marine Benthic Ecosystems -- Framework-forming Scleractinian Cold-water Corals Through Space and Time: A Late Quaternary North Atlantic Perspective -- Global Biodiversity in Cold-Water Coral Reef Ecosystems -- Growth Patterns in Long-lived Benthic Suspension Feeders -- Impact of Bottom Fishing on Animal Forests: Science, Conservation and Fisheries Management -- Measuring the Impact of Anthropogenic Activity on Cold-water corals -- Suprabenthic Communities: the Forgotten Biodiversity.