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Comparative metabolic ecology of tropical herbivorous echinoids on a coral reef

BACKGROUND: The metabolic rate of consumers is a key driver of ecosystem dynamics. On coral reefs, herbivorous echinoids consume fleshy algae, facilitating the growth of reef-building calcified organisms; however, little is known about differences among species in their metabolic and functional ecol...

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Autores principales: Lewis, Levi S., Smith, Jennifer E., Eynaud, Yoan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5773235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29346442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190470