Macroborer presence on corals increases with nutrient input and promotes parrotfish corallivory

Authors: Mallory M. Rice, Rebecca L. Maher, Adrienne M.S. Correa, Nathan P. Lemoine, Holly V. Moeller, Andrew A. Shantz, Deron E. Burkepile, Nyssa J. Silbiger

Journal: Coral Reefs

Link: Article here

Funding:

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant (OCE #16-37396) as well as a generous gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Research was completed under permits issued by the French Polynesian Government (Délégation à la Recherche) and the Haut-commissariat de la République en Polynésie Francaise (DTRT) (Protocole d'Accueil 2005-2018). Grants from the National Science Foundation (#1635798 to AMSC, #1455138 to DEB, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to both MMR (#1650114) and RLM (#1314109-DGE), and the Worster Award to MMR supported this work. This work represents a contribution of the Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER Site.

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Data
All data files used in this analysis
TimeSeries_Photo_Data_Jan2019_final.csv (Lithophagid counts and coral surface area)
MCR_LTER_Annual_Fish_Survey_20180612.csv (Fish surveys)
MCR_LTER_Macroalgal_CHN_2005_to_2014_20151031.csv (Macroalgae %N data)
groundtruth.csv (in silico vs in situ data)
For MCR_LTER metadata click here. All other metadata is in the metadata.csv file

Output
All figures produced in paper

MBB scripts.R is the script use for data analysis