[Coral-List] PeerJ article published: Rapidly increasing macroalgal cover not related to herbivorous fishes on Mesoamerican reefs

[Risk, Michael]

Thanks for pointing that out. Important work.

I have never been a fan of top-down control, feeling it lacked definitive work…in the meantime, top-down gave “managers” an out for decades. It is politically much easier to say “look after the fish” than “don’t throw s**t in the water.”

And now we see the results.

Mike
> On May 31, 2016, at 7:13 PM, Pawlik, Joseph <pawlikj at uncw.edu> wrote:
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> Greetings, Coral-listers -- this just-released paper is the latest to join a growing tide of studies that run contrary to the widely held view that herbivorous fishes control seaweeds on Caribbean reefs:
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> Suchley A, McField MD, Alvarez-Filip L. (2016) Rapidly increasing macroalgal cover not related to herbivorous fishes on Mesoamerican reefs. PeerJ 4:e2084
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> https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2084
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> Cheers,
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> Joe
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Risk, Michael
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