Human Disruption of Coral Reef Trophic Structure

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• 作者：Nicholas A.J. Graham¹ ; ² ; ⁸ ; ^{nick.graham@lancaster.ac.uk} ; Tim R. McClanahan³ ; M. Aaron MacNeil² ; ⁴ ; ⁵ ; Shaun K. Wilson⁶ ; ⁷ ; Joshua E. Cinner² ; Cindy Huchery² ; Thomas H. Holmes⁶ ; ⁷
• 关键词：trophic pyramids ; coral reef ecology ; trophic replacement ; trophic cascades ; fisheries management ; energetics ; wilderness ; coral reef fishes
• 刊名：Current Biology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：23 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：27
• 期：2
• 页码：231-236
• 全文大小：1136 K
• 卷排序：27

文摘

The mean trophic level of reef fish assemblages increased with fishing pressure At low overall fish biomass, urchins replaced the role of low trophic level fish High biomass assemblages had concave-shaped trophic distributions This concave shape implies a more direct link from lower to upper trophic levels