Does artificial shelter have a place in Diadema antillarum restoration in the Florida Keys? Tests of habitat manipulation and sheltering behavior

The Diadema antillarum population in the Florida Keys has not recovered since the Caribbean-wide mass mortality event of the early 1980s. Concomitantly, coral reefs have degraded to the point that there has been a loss of habitat complexity and thus of refuge from predation, possibly creating a bott...

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Main Authors: Gabriel A. Delgado, William C. Sharp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-04-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989421000524