Staff involved:
Alasdair Edwards, Peter Mumby (Exeter), Ernesto Arias-Gonzalez (CINVESTAV, Mexico)Funding:
National Geographic Society, US World Wildlife Fund, Royal SocietySchoolmaster snapper. Snappers, which are favourite food fish, were found to be over twice as abundant on coral reefs with mangrove nurseries nearby.
The French grunt, whose numbers were 3 times greater on coral patch reefs and the shallow reef front when mangrove nursery areas were present.
