Limits to grazing by herbivorous fishes and the impact of low coral cover on macroalgal abundance on a coral reef in Belize

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 222, Issue , 2001, Pages 187-196

  Williams, I D ^a   Polunin, N V C ^a   Hendrick, V J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Coral reef; Grazing thresholds; Herbivorous fish; Macroalgal dominance

Indexed keywords

CORAL REEF; DOMINANCE; GRAZING; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MACROALGA;

AMBERGRIS CAYE; BELIZE;

ACANTHURIDAE; ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; DIADEMA ANTILLARUM; ECHINOIDEA; EUKARYOTA; ICHTHYOFAUNA; PISCES;

EID: 0035813987     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps222187     Document Type: Article

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