Tropical range extending herbivorous fishes gain foraging benefits by shoaling with native temperate species

Data1.csv contains the data to analyze the abundance of fish herbivore individuals as a function of the species and the type of shoal.  

Data2.xlsx contains the data to analyze the foraging activity of the herbivorous fish found in our study. We explored the relationship between bite rates per fish min-1 and the species, shoal type and shoal size.  

Data3.xlslx contains the data to analyze the shoaling configurations based on species origin. 

Minguito-Frutos_etal.R contains the R reproducible code to run all the analyses carried out in this study. 

Species_coocurrence_based_associations.R contains the reproducible R code to run the analyses to explore the strength of mixed-species associations between herbivorous fish. 

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Data1.csv, Data2.xlsx, Data3.xlslx, and Minguito-Frutos_etal.R contains the data and code used before submitting this work. 

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Minguito_Frutos_etal2025_SR_Rscript, Data_Rev_SR, and Data2_Rev_SR contain the data and code derived from the last submission to Scientific Reports. In this latest version, we modified our analyses of fish foraging activity that now evaluate: (i) the frequency and size of mixed-species shoals based on the origin of the species examined (using data in Data2_Rev_SR), (ii) the strength of pair-wise associations between native and range-expanding species (using Species_coocurrence_based_associations.R), and (iii) how the foraging activity of native and range-extending fishes was shaped by the composition and size of the shoals (using data in Data_Rev_SR).