Holobiont assemblages of dominant coral species (Symbiodinium types and coral species) shape Caribbean reef community structure
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Wave energy and swimming performance shape coral reef fish assemblages.
Physical factors often have an overriding influence on the distribution patterns of organisms, and can ultimately shape the long-term structure of communities. Although distribution patterns in sessile marine organisms have frequently been attributed to functional characteristics interacting with wave-induced water motion, similar evidence for mobile organisms is lacking. Links between fin morp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2382-4980,0370-3908
DOI: 10.18257/raccefyn.294