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Reefal ostracod assemblages from the Zanzibar Archipelago (Tanzania)
Bonn Institute for Organismic Biologie, Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Bonn Institute for Organismic Biologie, Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Moriaki Yasuhara
School of Biological Sciences, Area of Ecology and Biodiversity, Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Chih-Lin Wei
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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Through the first large-scale study of meiobenthic ostracods from the diverse and productive reef ecosystem in the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania, we found that the diversity and composition of ostracod assemblages as controlled by benthic habitats and human impacts were indicative of overall reef health, and we highlighted the usefulness of ostracods as a model proxy to monitor and understand the degradation of reef ecosystems from the coral-dominated phase to the algae-dominated phase.
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