Study finds parrotfish are critical to coral reef health

(University of California - San Diego) In the new study, published in the Jan. 23 issue of the journal Nature Communication, Scripps researchers Katie Cramer and Richard Norris developed a 3,000-year record of the abundance of parrotfish and urchins on reefs from the Caribbean side of Panama to help unravel the cause of the alarming modern-day shift from coral- to algae-dominated reefs occurring across the Caribbean.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - January 23, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news