Functionally diverse reef-fish communities ameliorate coral disease
Coral reefs, the most diverse of marine ecosystems, currently experience unprecedented levels of degradation. Diseases are now recognized as a major cause of mortality in reef-forming corals and are complicit in phase shifts of reef ecosystems to algal-dominated states worldwide. Even so, factors co...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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National Academy of Sciences
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35461 |