scholarly journals Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 1009-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. W. Robinson ◽  
Ivor D. Williams ◽  
Andrew M. Edwards ◽  
Jana McPherson ◽  
Lauren Yeager ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Coral Reef Fish ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Fish Communities

scholarly journals Habitat degradation and fishing effects on the size structure of coral reef fish communities

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 442-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Wilson ◽  
R. Fisher ◽  
M. S. Pratchett ◽  
N. A. J. Graham ◽  
N. K. Dulvy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Coral Reef Fish ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Habitat Degradation ◽  
Fish Communities

scholarly journals Size structural change in lightly exploited coral reef fish communities: evidence for weak indirect effects

2004 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 466-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
N K Dulvy ◽  
N VC Polunin ◽  
A C Mill ◽  
N AJ Graham
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Coral Reef Fish ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Size Structure ◽  
Fish Communities ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Spatial Gradient ◽  
Size Classes ◽  
Average Maximum

Exploitation influences community structure directly through preferential removal of larger-bodied fishes and indirectly because larger-bodied fishes may exert top-down control upon other community members. We consider the direct and indirect effects of subsistence exploitation upon the size structure of coral reef fish communities along an island-scale spatial gradient of fishing intensity. We explored the effect of fishing intensity and sample date (three dates over a year) at six islands and the overall effect of fishing intensity averaged over sample dates at 13 islands. Fishing intensity consistently explained more of the variation in the size metrics than sample date. In response to exploitation, the mean weight of individuals declined by 52%, the weighted average maximum size (Lmax) declined by 25%, and slopes of community size spectra steepened. The larger size classes (>26 cm) declined in relative numbers by 63% and relative biomass by 61% in response to exploitation. However, the numbers and biomass of the three smallest size classes (<25 cm) increased by 31% and 9%, respectively, in response to exploitation. This increased abundance is consistent with a weak compensatory response presumably from a reduction in predation upon smaller size classes as an indirect effect of exploiting larger size classes.

Diurnal space utilization in coral reef fish communities

1978 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. E. Luckhurst ◽  
K. Luckhurst
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Coral Reef Fish ◽  
Fish Communities ◽  
Space Utilization

The influence of fire-coral colony size and agonistic behaviour of territorial damselfish on associated coral reef fish communities

2015 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 45-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabela Carolina Silva Leal ◽  
Maria Elisabeth de Araújo ◽  
Simone Rabelo da Cunha ◽  
Pedro Henrique Cipresso Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Coral Reef Fish ◽  
Colony Size ◽  
Fish Communities ◽  
Agonistic Behaviour ◽  
Coral Colony ◽  
Territorial Damselfish

scholarly journals Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Response of Coral Reef Fish Communities to Natural Disturbances: Insights from Beta-Diversity Decomposition

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. e0138696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Lamy ◽  
Pierre Legendre ◽  
Yannick Chancerelle ◽  
Gilles Siu ◽  
Joachim Claudet
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Coral Reef Fish ◽  
Beta Diversity ◽  
Fish Communities ◽  
Natural Disturbances ◽  
Temporal Response ◽  
Spatio Temporal

scholarly journals Biodiversity, population regulation, and the stability of coral-reef fish communities

2002 ◽  
Vol 99 (17) ◽  
pp. 11241-11245 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. H. Carr ◽  
T. W. Anderson ◽  
M. A. Hixon
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Coral Reef Fish ◽  
Population Regulation ◽  
Fish Communities ◽  
The Stability

scholarly journals Upper and lower mesophotic coral reef fish communities evaluated by underwater visual censuses in two Caribbean locations

Coral Reefs ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. T. Pinheiro ◽  
G. Goodbody-Gringley ◽  
M. E. Jessup ◽  
B. Shepherd ◽  
A. D. Chequer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
Coral Reef Fish ◽  
Fish Communities ◽  
Underwater Visual Censuses
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