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High Mortality in a Surgeonfish following an Exceptional Settlement Event
- Pacific Science
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 67, Number 4, October 2013
- pp. 533-538
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Marine organisms occasionally settle at exceptional densities, whereby thousands of individuals arrive concurrently. High levels of mortality, which has historically been attributed to predation or competition, often follow this episodic settlement of reef fishes. Here, however, we observed large numbers of newly settled surgeonfish (