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SUBMITTER: Wismer S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6898333 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wismer Sharon S Tebbett Sterling B SB Streit Robert P RP Bellwood David R DR
Communications biology 20191206
Unprecedented global bleaching events have led to extensive loss of corals. This is expected to lead to extensive losses of obligate coral-dependent fishes. Here, we use a novel, spatially-matched census approach to examine the nature of fish-coral dependency across two mass coral bleaching events. Despite a >40% loss of coral cover, and the ecological extinction of functionally important habitat-providing <i>Acropora</i> corals, we show that populations of obligate coral-dependent fishes, inclu ...[more]