Non-Consumptive Effects of Predators in Coral Reef Communities and the Indirect Consequences of Marine Protected Areas
Predators exert strong direct and indirect effects on ecological communities by intimidating their prey. Non-consumptive effects (NCEs) of predators are important features of many ecosystems and have changed the way we understand predator-prey interactions, but are not well understood in some system...
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FIU Digital Commons
2014
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| Online Access: | http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1621 http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2759&context=etd |