Until recently, most investigations of marine, macroscopic benthic algae and of the
herbivores that eat them proceeded independently. The algae were studied by phycologists …

It is well known that herbivores have numerous and diverse impacts on plant and algal
fitness, community structure and ecosystem function. The importance of corallivory as a …

Feeding Ecology of Fish establishes a comprehensive framework for the variable ecological
patterns exemplified by feeding fishes. The author, a former president of the American …

erbivores constitute a small proportion of marine fishes and most are erci formes, a large
and almost certainly polyphyletic assemblage of teleosts. They are largely confined to …

Experimental manipulations of grazing intensity were used to examine the role of
herbivorous fishes in the families Acanthuridae (surgeonfishes) and Scaridae (parrotfishes) …

Mortality of corals is increasing due to bleaching, disease and algal overgrowth. In the
Caribbean, low rates of coral recruitment contribute to the slow or undetectable rates of …

Certain species of echinoderms have broad-scale effects on entire coral-reef communities,
more so than any other particular species of invertebrate or fish. The echinoderms with the …

Fish are extremely successful vertebrates. Because of a long and divergent history they are
now found in almost every conceiv able aquatic habitat. This radiation has been …

The community structure of Jamaican coral reefs has undergone drastic change since mass
mortalities of the long-spined black sea urchin Diadema antillarum Philippi occurred in …

Herbivorous fishes and invertebrates are conspicious elements of coral reef communities
where they predominate both in numbers and biomass. Herbivores and the coral reef algae …