Filamentous calcareous alga provides substrate for coral-competitive macroalgae in the degraded lagoon of Dongsha Atoll, Taiwan

• Carolin Nieder,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Leigh Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Leigh, New Zealand

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• Chen-Pan Liao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Life Science & Center for Ecology and Environment, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Biology, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chaolun Allen Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Shao-Lun Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shaolunliu@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Life Science & Center for Ecology and Environment, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4936-0459

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