Do microbes play a role in facilitating the range expansion of tropical fish into temperate systems?
A/Prof Adriana Verges1, Ines Richter1, Torsten Thomas1, Suhelen Egan1 1UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia The climate-mediated range expansion of tropical, herbivorous fish into temperate regions has profound impacts on temperate reefs, through overgrazing of habitat-forming seaweeds. The mechanisms that control such novel plant-herbivore interactions between tropical consumers and temperate seaweeds are largely unknown, but recent studies…