Biomonitoring of coral reef health using Butterflyfishes (Family: Chaetodontidae) Ryan Gounder © 11/6/99 THE INDICATOR HYPOTHESIS "Coral feeding Butterflyfishes respond to declines in coral quality or abundance by behavioral and spatial adjustments that can be easily and rapidly observed." (Crosby & Reese 1996) Introduction A fundamental question that one asks when using Chaetodontidae, or for that reason any species as biomonitors is: why use an organism when sophisticated machines are available to detect very small quantities of pollution in …showed first 75 words of 2427 total…

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