Competitors as accomplices: seaweed competitors hide corals from predatory sea stars
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Competitors as accomplices: seaweed competitors hide corals from predatory sea stars.
Indirect biotic effects arising from multispecies interactions can alter the structure and function of ecological communities--often in surprising ways that can vary in direction and magnitude. On Pacific coral reefs, predation by the crown-of-thorns sea star, Acanthaster planci, is associated with broad-scale losses of coral cover and increases of macroalgal cover. Macroalgal blooms increase c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0714