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Reconstructing baselines for Caribbean predatory reef fishes

2015-01-21

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The natural, pre-human, abundance of most large predators is unknown due to the lack of historical data and the poor understanding of the natural factors that control their populations. We assessed the relationship between the biomass of predatory reef fishes and several anthropogenic and environmental variables to (1) predict among site variability in predator abundance in response to both human impacts and natur...

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Literature Corpus work: 6d8ca478-bd6c-528e-b50f-adb4022ca0bb
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.805v1

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