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Feeding Electivity Indices in Surgeonfish (Acanthuridae) of The Florida Keys | Semantic Scholar

@article{Tilghman2001FeedingEI,
  title={Feeding Electivity Indices in Surgeonfish (Acanthuridae) of The Florida Keys},
  author={G. Christopher Tilghman and RuthEllen Klinger-Bowen and Ruth Francis‐Floyd},
  journal={Aquarium Sciences and Conservation},
  year={2001},
  volume={3},
  pages={215-223},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:82375933}
}

Understanding food preferences of free-ranging Florida surgeonfish may provide insight to improve nutritional management of captive herbivorous reef fish.

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