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Coral cover a stronger driver of reef fish trophic biomass than fishing

An influential paradigm in coral reef ecology is that fishing causes trophic cascades through reef fish assemblages, resulting in reduced herbivory and thus benthic phase shifts from coral to algal dominance. Few long‐term field tests exist of how fishing affects the trophic structure of coral reef...

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Autores principales: Russ, Garry R., Rizzari, Justin R., Abesamis, Rene A., Alcala, Angel C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7816266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32866333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2224