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Size-specific recolonization success by coral-dwelling damselfishes moderates resilience to habitat loss [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2020
Increasing degradation of coral reef ecosystems and specifically, loss of corals is causing significant and widespread declines in the abundance of coral reef fishes, but the proximate cause(s) of these declines are largely unknown.
Morgan S Pratchett, Vanessa Messmer, Shaun K Wilson   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

N-acetylated sugars in clownfish and damselfish skin mucus as messengers involved in chemical recognition by anemone host [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The clownfish - sea anemone system is a great example of symbiotic mutualism where host «toxicity» does not impact its symbiont partner, although the underlying protection mechanism remains unclear.
Sara Heim, Tony Teav, Fabio Cortesi, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Julijana Ivanisevic, Nicolas Salamin   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Bipartite life cycle of coral reef fishes promotes increasing shape disparity of the head skeleton during ontogeny: an example from damselfishes (Pomacentridae) [PDF]

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011
Background Quantitative studies of the variation of disparity during ontogeny exhibited by the radiation of coral reef fishes are lacking. Such studies dealing with the variation of disparity, i.e.
Vandewalle Pierre, Frédérich Bruno
doaj   +2 more sources

A new species of Anemonefish from French Polynesia, Amphiprion maohiensis, (Pomacentridae, Amphiprioninae), the Polynesian anemonefish [PDF]

ZooKeys
Anemonefishes (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) comprise approximately 28 species of damselfishes that exclusively live symbiotically with sea anemones. Distribution ranges vary, with some species only found in few isolated islands and others with ranges that ...
James L. O’Donnell, Ricardo Beldade, Jason Johns, Giacomo Bernardi   +3 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Broad-scale spatial distribution, microhabitat association and habitat partitioning of damselfishes (family Pomacentridae) on an Okinawan coral reef [PDF]

PeerJ
Spatial distribution of coral reef fishes is related to diverse environmental variables. This study aimed to elucidate the (1) broad-scale spatial distribution, (2) microhabitat-scale substrate association, (3) degree of dependence on live corals and (4)
Atsushi Nanami
doaj   +3 more sources

A database of life history parameters for Pacific coral reef fish [PDF]

Scientific Data
Length-weight parameters assist in the estimation of a fish’s biomass based upon assessment of length, providing value to many scientific and management applications.
Anela K. Akiona, Brian J. Zgliczynski, Marisa M. Agarwal, Beverly J. French, Nathaniel Hanna Holloway, Katie A. Lubarsky, McClaran E. Shirley, Christopher J. Sullivan, Stuart A. Sandin   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Novel field observations of coral reef fishes feeding on epiphytic and epizoic organisms associated with the allelopathic seaweed Galaxaura divaricata [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
In degraded coral reef ecosystems, allelopathic macroalgae have received increasing attention from marine ecologists because their secondary metabolites (also known as allelochemicals) kill corals that grow adjacent to them and weaken the recovery of ...
Carolin Nieder, Chen‐Pan Liao, Chen‐Lu Lee, Kendall D. Clements, Shao‐Lun Liu   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

No change in key reef fish herbivores or reef fisher yields in Barbados a decade after the lionfish invasion [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Red lionfish, Pterois volitans, a non-native marine species with potential to cause significant damage to Caribbean coral reefs, reached Barbados in late 2011.
Henri Vallès, Julian Walcott, Hazel A. Oxenford   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Uncovering the acoustic ecology of sympatric coral-dwelling fish with portable audio-video arrays [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Acoustic communication plays an important role in fish ecology and behaviour. Understanding how acoustic signals vary across species and populations is central to questions of sexual selection, population divergence, and environmental modulation of ...
Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano, Xavier Mouy, Christine Erbe, Rohan M. Brooker, Robert D. McCauley, Craig A. Radford, Miles J. G. Parsons   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Zoogonids (trematoda) infecting Indo-West Pacific damselfishes (Pomacentridae), including the proposal of a new genus and two new species [PDF]

Parasitology
As part of a broad survey of the trematodes of damselfishes (Pomacentridae) in the tropical Indo-West Pacific, zoogonids were collected from multiple localities in Australia, New Caledonia, and French Polynesia.
Berilin Duong, Storm B. Martin, Scott C. Cutmore, Thomas H. Cribb   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources