Wiley
ABSTRACT
Rocky reefs may shift between two distinct stable states: productive algal forests, characterised by high abundance and biodiversity of macrofauna, and impoverished barrens, dominated by overgrazing sea urchins. Barren states may persist despite the recovery of adult sea urchin predators, suggesting additional stabilising mechanisms. Sea urchin settlers equally colonise forests and barrens in large numbers, but in forests only a few of them reach adult...
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