Macroalgal browsing on a heavily degraded, urbanized equatorial reef system

Abstract The removal of macroalgal biomass is critical to the health of coral reef ecosystems. Previous studies on relatively intact reefs with diverse and abundant fish communities have quantified rapid removal of macroalgae by herbivorous fishes, yet how these findings relate to degraded reef syst...

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Main Authors: Andrew G. Bauman, Andrew S. Hoey, Glenn Dunshea, David A. Feary, Jeffrey Low, Peter A. Todd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08873-3