Consumer diversity interacts with prey defenses to drive ecosystem function
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Consumer diversity interacts with prey defenses to drive ecosystem function.
Prey traits linking consumer diversity to ecosystem function remain poorly understood. On tropical coral reefs, herbivores promote coral dominance by suppressing competing macroalgae, but the roles of herbivore identity and diversity, macroalgal defenses, and their interactions in affecting reef resilience and function are unclear. We studied adjacent pairs of no-take marine reserves and fished...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1890/12-0389.1