date:Dec 14, 2012
y, and Craig Layman, associate professor at Florida International University, led the study, which took place in the waters of a large bay on Abaco Island, Bahamas.
Most tropical coastal ecosystems are nutrient limited, meaning that the system's primary food sources such as algae and seagrass need to have enough nitrogen and phosphorusin the right proportionsto grow and thrive.
We've been thinking about the role of fish and the nutrients they're excreting in these ecosystems for a while now,