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Macroalgae Has No Effect on the Severity and Dynamics of Caribbean Yellow Band Disease

By removing herbivores and promoting increases in macroalgae, overfishing is thought to indirectly cause coral disease and mortality. We performed three field manipulations to test the general hypothesis that overfishing and the subsequent alteration of coral reef trophic dynamics are a cause of cor...

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Autores principales: Vu, Ivana, Smelick, Gillian, Harris, Sam, Lee, Sarah C., Weil, Ernesto, Whitehead, Robert F., Bruno, John F.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639707/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19223986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004514