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Extinction vulnerability of coral reef fishes [PDF]

Ecology Letters, 2011
With rapidly increasing rates of contemporary extinction, predicting extinction vulnerability and identifying how multiple stressors drive non-random species loss have become key challenges in ecology. These assessments are crucial for avoiding the loss of key functional groups that sustain ecosystem processes and services.
Graham, Nicholas A. J., Chabanet, Pascale, Evans, Richard D., Jennings, Simon, Letourneur, Yves, MacNeil, M. Aaron, McClanahan, Tim R., Ohman, Marcus C., Polunin, Nicholas V. C., Wilson, Shaun K.   +9 more
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Fishing down nutrients on coral reefs [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2016
AbstractFishing is widely considered a leading cause of biodiversity loss in marine environments, but the potential effect on ecosystem processes, such as nutrient fluxes, is less explored. Here, we test how fishing on Caribbean coral reefs influences biodiversity and ecosystem functions provided by the fish community, that is, fish-mediated nutrient ...
Jacob E. Allgeier, Abel Valdivia, Courtney Cox, Craig A. Layman   +3 more
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Colour vision in coral reef fish [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2008
SUMMARYOver many millions of years, sea creatures have developed a range of light reflectance properties. One example is the large variation in the patterns and colours of fish inhabiting the world's coral reefs. Attempts to understand the significance of the colouration have been made, but all too often from the perspective of a human observer. A more
Siebeck, U. E., Wallis, G. M., Litherland, L.   +2 more
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Relative importance of coral cover, habitat complexity and diversity in determining the structure of reef fish communities. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The structure of coral reef habitat has a pronounced influence on the diversity, composition and abundance of reef-associated fishes. However, the particular features of the habitat that are most critical are not always known.
Valeriya Komyakova, Philip L Munday, Geoffrey P Jones   +2 more
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Multifocal lenses in coral reef fishes [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2007
SUMMARYThe optical properties of crystalline lenses were studied in eleven species of coral reef fish from the Red Sea in Eilat, Israel. Three species each of diurnal planktivores, nocturnal planktivores and diurnal herbivores constituted three groups of animals with little within-group variability.
Björn, Karpestam, Jonas, Gustafsson, Nadav, Shashar, Gadi, Katzir, Ronald H H, Kröger   +4 more
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Climate warming, marine protected areas and the ocean-scale integrity of coral reef ecosystems [PDF]

, 2008
Coral reefs have emerged as one of the ecosystems most vulnerable to climate variation and change. While the contribution of a warming climate to the loss of live coral cover has been well documented across large spatial and temporal scales, the ...
Chabanet, Pascale, Wilson, Shaun K., Clark, Susan, Nicholas A. J. Graham, Marcus C Ohman, Spalding Mark D., Mark D. Spalding, Chabanet Pascale, Marcus C. Öhman, Alasdair J Edwards, Sheppard, Charles (Charles R. C.), Pascale Chabanet, Graham Nicholas A. J., M. Aaron Macneil, Edwards Alasdair J., Kajsa C Garpe, Shaun K. Wilson, McClanahan Tim R., McClanahan, Tim R., Galzin René, Graham, Nicholas A.J., Susan Clark, MacNeil M. Aaron, Graham, N. A. J., M Aaron MacNeil, Garpe, K.C., Spalding, M.D., Jennings, S., Nicholas V C Polunin, Polunin, Nicholas V. C., Jennings Simon, René Galzin, Mcclanahan, T.R., Wilson Shaun K., Bigot, Lionel, MacNeil, M. Aaron, Nicholas A J Graham, Kajsa C. Garpe, Jennings, Simon, Wilson, S.K., Alasdair J. Edwards, Clark, S., Edwards, Alasdair J., Ohman, M.C., Simon Jennings, Clark Susan, Tim R. Mcclanahan, Polunin, Nicholas V.C., Garpe Kajsa C., Bigot Lionel, Polunin Nicholas V. C., Letourneur, Yves, Charles R. C, Letourneur Yves, Edwards, A.J., Jennings, Simon, Ph. D., Spalding, Mark, Polunin, N.V.C., Galzin, René, Öhman Marcus C., Graham, N.A.J., McClanahan, T. R., Graham, Nicholas A. J., Sheppard, C.R.C., Sheppard Charles R. C., Charles R C Sheppard, Polunin, Nicholas, Sheppard, Charles R. C., Shaun K Wilson, Galzin, R., Tim R McClanahan, Nicholas V. C, Mcneil, M.A., Sheppard, Charles R.C., Öhman, Marcus C., Spalding, Mark D., Yves Letourneur, Lionel Bigot, Rene ́ Galzin, McClanahan, Timothy R., Garpe, Kajsa C., Mark D Spalding   +81 more
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Modelling Growth of Juvenile Crown-of-Thorns Starfish on the Northern Great Barrier Reef

Diversity, 2016
The corallivorous crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.) is a major cause of coral mortality on Indo-Pacific reefs. Despite considerable research into the biology of crown-of-thorns starfish, our understanding of the early post-settlement life stage
Jennifer Wilmes, Samuel Matthews, Daniel Schultz, Vanessa Messmer, Andrew Hoey, Morgan Pratchett   +5 more
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Connectivity between coastal habitats of two oceanic Caribbean islands as inferred from ontogenetic shifts by coral reef fishes [PDF]

, 2003
Mangroves and seagrass beds are considered important nursery habitats for juveniles of coral reef fishes. Studies have mostly focused on the fish community of just one habitat, so the connectivity between different coastal habitats is often unclear.
Nagelkerken, I.A., Van der Velde, G., Velde, G. van der, Nagelkerken, I.   +3 more
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Tropical marine fish from Celukan Bawang Port, Buleleng, Bali, Indonesia [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Celukan Bawang port is located in Buleleng Regency, Bali, Indonesia. The area of Celukan Bawang Port has a coral reef ecosystem that is very rarely found in Indonesian ports. The coral reef has an important role for coral reef fish as their habitat. This
Aulia Rizkyanti, Hanifa Riskha, Arfiantinosa Nassa, Mahmudi Aris, Huda Mohamad Nurul   +4 more
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Reef fishes of Saba Bank, Netherlands Antilles : Assemblage structure across a gradient of habitat types [PDF]

, 2010
Saba Bank is a 2,200 km2 submerged carbonate platform in the northeastern Caribbean Sea off Saba Island, Netherlands Antilles. The presence of reef-like geomorphic features and significant shelf edge coral development on Saba Bank have led to the ...
Paul C Hoetjes, Vermeij, M., Hoetjes, P.C., Toller, W., Wes Toller, Mark J A Vermeij, Vermeij, M.J.A., Vermeij, M.J.A.; id_orcid, Mark J. A. Vermeij, Adolphe O Debrot, Debrot, A.O., Paul C. Hoetjes, Adolphe O. Debrot   +12 more
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