Nutrient supply from fishes facilitates macroalgae and suppresses corals in a Caribbean coral reef ecosystem

On coral reefs, fishes can facilitate coral growth via nutrient excretion; however, as coral abundance declines, these nutrients may help facilitate increases in macroalgae. By combining surveys of reef communities with bioenergetics modeling, we showed that fish excretion supplied 25 times more nit...

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Autores principales: Burkepile, Deron E., Allgeier, Jacob E., Shantz, Andrew A., Pritchard, Catharine E., Lemoine, Nathan P., Bhatti, Laura H., Layman, Craig A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6504825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23512216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep01493

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