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

[Pawlik, Joseph]

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:


Suchley A, McField MD, Alvarez-Filip L. (2016) Rapidly increasing macroalgal cover not related to herbivorous fishes on Mesoamerican reefs. PeerJ 4:e2084

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2084


 Cheers,

Joe

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