Seaweed allelopathy degrades the resilience and function of coral reefs

Coral reefs are in dramatic global decline due to a host of local- and global-scale anthropogenic disturbances that suppress corals and enhance seaweeds. This decline is exacerbated, and recovery made less likely, due to overfishing of herbivores that normally limit seaweed effects on corals. Seawee...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Douglas B. Rasher, Mark E. Hay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2010-11-01
Series:Communicative & Integrative Biology
Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.4161/cib.3.6.12978