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Sponge Communities on Caribbean Coral Reefs Are Structured by Factors That Are Top-Down, Not Bottom-Up

Caribbean coral reefs have been transformed in the past few decades with the demise of reef-building corals, and sponges are now the dominant habitat-forming organisms on most reefs. Competing hypotheses propose that sponge communities are controlled primarily by predatory fishes (top-down) or by th...

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Autores principales: Pawlik, Joseph R., Loh, Tse-Lynn, McMurray, Steven E., Finelli, Christopher M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3648561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23667492
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062573