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SUBMITTER: Skinner C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6852557 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Skinner Christina C Newman Steven P SP Mill Aileen C AC Newton Jason J Polunin Nicholas V C NVC
The Journal of animal ecology 20190725 10
Coral reef food webs are complex, vary spatially and remain poorly understood. Certain large predators, notably sharks, are subsidized by pelagic production on outer reef slopes, but how widespread this dependence is across all teleost fishery target species and within atolls is unclear. North Malé Atoll (Maldives) includes oceanic barrier as well as lagoonal reefs. Nine fishery target predators constituting ca. 55% of the local fishery target species biomass at assumed trophic levels 3-5 were s ...[more]