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    Invasive plant Arundo donax alters habitat use by carnivores

    Invasive plants can have significant negative interactions with native flora and fauna, often decreasing the abundance and diversity of native plants and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. Less is known, ...

    Molly Hardesty-Moore, Devyn Orr, Douglas J. McCauley in Biological Invasions (2020)

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    Chemistry of the consumption and excretion of the bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum), a coral reef mega-consumer

    Bolbometopon muricatum are ecologically unique mega-consumers in coral reef ecosystems. They primarily divide their dietary intake between living scleractinian corals and coral rock, a substrate richly colonized ...

    E. Grace Goldberg, Ted K. Raab, Paul Desalles, Amy A. Briggs in Coral Reefs (2019)

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    Reliance of mobile species on sensitive habitats: a case study of manta rays (Manta alfredi) and lagoons

    Quantifying the ecological importance of individual habitats to highly mobile animals is challenging because patterns of habitat reliance for these taxa are complex and difficult to observe. We investigated th...

    Douglas J. McCauley, Paul A. DeSalles, Hillary S. Young in Marine Biology (2014)

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    Acute effects of removing large fish from a near-pristine coral reef

    Large animals are severely depleted in many ecosystems, yet we are only beginning to understand the ecological implications of their loss. To empirically measure the short-term effects of removing large animal...

    Douglas J. McCauley, Fiorenza Micheli, Hillary S. Young in Marine Biology (2010)