Shoreline armoring potentially diminishes the ecological roles of parrotfishes in urban coral reefs

Ecology. 2024 Mar;105(3):e4250. doi: 10.1002/ecy.4250. Epub 2024 Jan 18.

Authors

Rachel Y Y Mark¹, Daisuke Taira¹, Peter A Todd¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.

PMID: 38238064
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4250

No abstract available

Keywords: artificial coastal defense; coastal urbanization; epilithic algal matrix; grazing; herbivorous fishes; urban marine ecology.

MeSH terms

Animals
Coral Reefs*
Perciformes*

Grants and funding

MSRDP-P05/National Research Foundation Singapore