Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef.

Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef.

Disease, storms, ocean warming, and pollution have caused the mass mortality of reef-building corals across the Caribbean over the last four decades. Subsequently, stony corals have been replaced by macroalgae, bacterial mats, and invertebrates including soft corals and sponges, causing changes to t...

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Main Authors: Catherine Alves, Abel Valdivia, Richard B Aronson, Nadia Bood, Karl D Castillo, Courtney Cox, Clare Fieseler, Zachary Locklear, Melanie McField, Laura Mudge, James Umbanhowar, John F Bruno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249155

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249155

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