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Long-Term Effects of the Cleaner Fish Labroides dimidiatus on Coral Reef Fish Communities

Cleaning behaviour is deemed a mutualism, however the benefit of cleaning interactions to client individuals is unknown. Furthermore, mechanisms that may shift fish community structure in the presence of cleaning organisms are unclear. Here we show that on patch reefs (61–285 m(2)) which had all cle...

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Autores principales: Waldie, Peter A., Blomberg, Simon P., Cheney, Karen L., Goldizen, Anne W., Grutter, Alexandra S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3123342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021201