Coral-seaweed-grazer-nutrient interactions on temperate reefs.

From: Ecological Monographs | Date: August 1, 1996| Author: Hay, Mark E.; Miller, Margaret W. | Copyright information

Why corals dominate tropical reefs but are rare or absent on temperate reefs is one of the more intriguing global-scale questions in marine ecology. Restriction of corals from temperate reefs has been suggested to be due to low temperature, competition with seaweeds, and synergistic interactions of physical and biological factors. However, most studies addressing these hypotheses have been non-experimental and conducted on tropical corals and reefs near the extremes of their distribution rath...

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