The non-linear relationship between body size and function in parrotfishes

By Jerker Lokrantz, M. Nyström, Matilda Thyresson, Charlotte L. Johansson. Coral reefs, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Structural complexity mediates functional structure of reef fish assemblages among coral habitats (2017, background): “Diet and body-size encompass a large proportion of the implicit functional roles of coral reef fishes (Bellwood et al. 2004; Lokrantz et al. 2008).”
Herbivore cross‐scale redundancy supports response diversity and promotes coral reef resilience (2016, background): “For example, larger individuals remove disproportionately more algae per unit body mass (Lokrantz et al. 2008) and have greater functional breadth (Green & Bellwood 2009) than small-bodied counterparts.”
Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016, background): “Also, the size-selective harvesting of large individuals of parrotfish, a critical reef herbivore, may cause severe consequences for the dynamics and regeneration of coral reefs (Lokrantz et al. 2008).”
Feeding complementarity versus redundancy among herbivorous fishes on a Caribbean reef (2011, unknown): “Both larger herbivore species (Bellwood 1995; Bellwood et al. 2003) and larger individuals within a species (Bonaldo and Bellwood 2008; Francini et al. 2008; Lokrantz et al. 2008) can have considerably different impact on communities than do smaller individuals.”
Capturing the cornerstones of coral reef resilience: linking theory to practice (2008, background): “Moreover, size has been shown to be an important variable for scraping and bioerosion functions performed by parrotfishes (Bruggemann et al. 1996; Bonaldo and Bellwood 2008; Lokrantz et al. 2008).”