A coral-algal phase shift in Mesoamerica not driven by changes in herbivorous fish abundance

• Jesús Ernesto Arias-González ,

  * E-mail: earias@cinvestav.mx

  Affiliation Laboratorio de Ecología de Ecosistemas de Arrecifes Coralinos, Departamento de Recursos del Mar, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados I.P.N.-Unidad Mérida. Carr. Ant. Progreso Km. 6, A.P. 73 Cordemex, Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4601-710X

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• Tak Fung,

  Affiliation National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore, Singapore

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• Robert M. Seymour †,

  † Deceased.

  Affiliation Centre for Mathematics & Physics in the Life Sciences & Experimental Biology, & Department of Mathematics, University College London, London United Kingdom

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• Joaquín Rodrigo Garza-Pérez,

  Affiliation Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Puerto de Abrigo S/N, Sisal Yucatán Mexico

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• Gilberto Acosta-González,

  Affiliation Unidad de Ciencias del Agua. Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán A.C. Calle 8 no. 29 Mza 39 SM 64. Cancún. Q. Roo. C.P. México

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• Yves-Marie Bozec,

  Affiliation Marine Spatial Ecology Lab, School of Biological Sciences & Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

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• Craig R. Johnson

  Affiliation Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies, Private Bag 129, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

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