Evaluation of algal regulation by herbivorous fishes on Caribbean coral reefs

Table 4 Daily algal consumption rates (g m⁻² days⁻¹) obtained for each species in each site with Method 1 and total algal consumption of the whole herbivorous fish assemblage obtained with both methods

	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8	S9	S10	S11	Total per species
Acanthurus bahianus	0.19	0.06	0.14	0.34	0.93	0.43	0.07	0.16	0.11	0.16	0.83	3.43
Acanthurus chirurgus	0.10	0	0.01	0.54	0.25	0.01	0.01	0.01	0	0.33	0.05	1.30
Acanthurus coeruleus	0.25	0.7	0.07	0.45	0.79	0.42	0.07	0.07	0.05	0.60	0.06	3.53
Scarus iserti	0.06	0.12	0.06	0.13	0.51	0.06	0	0.12	0.26	0.11	0.01	1.44
Scarus taeniopterus	0.01	0.02	0.04	0	0.03	0.32	0.08	0.06	0.20	0.04	0	0.80
Scarus vetula	0.02	0	0	0	0.01	0.55	0.12	0.01	0	0.01	0	0.72
Sparisoma aurofrenatum	0.01	0	0.01	0.02	0.03	0.08	0.12	0.19	0.35	0.11	0.14	1.05
Sparisoma chrysopterum	0.01	0.03	0.03	0.05	0.05	0.06	0.01	0	0	0.01	0	0.25
Sparisoma rubripinne	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.17	0.04	0.08	0.07	0.05	0	0	0.15	0.62
Sparisoma viride	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.16	0.53	0.57	0.51	0.34	0.11	0.01	2.33
Total per site
Method 1	0.68	0.98	0.4	1.75	2.79	2.54	1.11	1.18	1.32	1.49	1.24
Method 2	0.81	1.09	0.67	2.05	3.24	2.77	1.14	1.61	1.77	1.56	1.36

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