Indirect effects of overfishing on Caribbean reefs: sponges overgrow reef-building corals

Consumer-mediated indirect effects at the community level are difficult to demonstrate empirically. Here, we show an explicit indirect effect of overfishing on competition between sponges and reef-building corals from surveys of 69 sites across the Caribbean. Leveraging the large-scale, long-term re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Loh, Tse-Lynn, McMurray, Steven E., Henkel, Timothy P., Vicente, Jan, Pawlik, Joseph R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2015
Materias:
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25945305
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.901

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419544/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25945305
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.901

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