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The influence of coral degradation on tropical fish community structure
... of coral reef fish communities may begin with the effects of habitat change on recruitment, support for this hypothesis has been limited to a few monitoring studies (Booth and Beretta 2002; Jones et ...declining ...
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Algae associated with coral degradation affects risk assessment in coral reef fishes
... Habitat degradation alters the chemical landscape through which information about community dynamics is ...some coral reef fishes are unable to use alarm odours when surrounded by dead- degraded ...degraded ...
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Patterns of microhabitat specialization and the consequences of coral degradation for coral-associated reef fishes
... On coral reefs, disturbances such as coral bleaching and tropical cyclones have already caused significant degradation to habitat-forming ...of coral microhabitat specialization among reef ...
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Olfactory responses of coral-reef fishes to coral degradation and crown-of-thorns (Acanthaster planci)
... Abstract. Coral degradation is a major threat towards the biodiversity of coral-reef ecosystems, either through the physical effects of environmental change, or biological agents such as ...
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Patterns of microhabitat specialization and the consequences of coral degradation for coral-associated reef fishes
... Competition for space is likely to play an increasingly important role in determining the local distribution and abundance of species in degraded coral reef environments, yet little is known about how these ...
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Coral degradation and the structure of tropical reef fish communities
... live coral may have demographic consequences for coral-associated fishes (Jones & McCormick 2002), there has been little empirical evidence to support this idea (but see Booth & Beretta 2002, Jones ...
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The influence of coral degradation on tropical fish community structure
... live coral dependence were likely to influence how fish assemblages responded to live coral loss, within Chapter 2 I showed that the abundance of a diverse range of coral-associated fishes were not ...
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Recurrent disturbances and the degradation of hard coral communities in Taiwan
... in coral cover due to natural disturbance have occurred in many other reefs ...in coral cover as a result of typhoons, from 80% in 1987 to 10% in 1989, on the southern GBR ...Ocean, coral cover ...
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Habitat degradation and fishing effects on the size structure of coral reef fish communities
... of coral reef fish communities and to an increase in the overall community ...that coral degradation (through a combination of climate-induced bleaching and the indirect effect of fishing-induced ...
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Risk assessment and predator learning in a changing world: understanding the impacts of coral reef degradation
... Habitat degradation is among the top drivers of the loss of global ...in coral reef system. Here we investigated whether coral degradation influences predator risk assessment and learning for ...
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Lonnstedt et al 2014 Journal of Animal Ecology
... the coral habitat ...does coral state affect (i) the behaviour of newly settled damselfish in situ, (ii) the ability of the fish to respond to risk-related cues and (iii) the survival of those fish over a ...
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Interspecific differences in how habitat degradation affects escape response
... with coral degradation affected the way three fish species use olfactory information to optimize their fast-start escape ...degraded coral habitats affected the fast-start response of the three ...
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ANALYSIS OF THE MAJOR FACTORS OF DEGRADATION AND LOSS OF CORALS IN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
... to degradation of coral in the Caribbean and GRB are ...in coral cover in the Caribbean has been attributed to a combination of coral diseases and storms, together with a phase shift from ...
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Reef fish assemblages on near-shore coral reefs: the effects of habitat structure, degradation and rehabilitation
... vii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page STATEMENT ON ACCESS ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF APPENDICES STATEMENT ON SOURCES DECLARATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ii iii vii xi[r] ...
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Strong effects of coral species on the diversity and structure of reef fish communities: a multi-scale analysis
... different coral species may potentially be related to the branching structure of the ...general, coral species with an intermediate branch spacing and length supported the most rich and abundant fish ...
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Disturbance to coral reefs in Aceh, Northern Sumatra: impacts of the Sumatra-Andaman tsunami and pre-tsunami degradation
... high coral mortality and major alterations in the physical and biological structure of benthic reef habitats, which are most likely to have the greatest impact on coral reef fishes (Wilson et ...hard ...
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Coral reef mesopredators switch prey, shortening food chains, in response to habitat degradation
... habitat degradation on long- lived reef mesopredators remain poorly understood, as sublethal effects may not be apparent in the short ...of coral reef ecosystems, transferring energy up the food chain ...
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Habitat degradation increases functional originality in highly diverse coral reef fish assemblages
... hard coral cover following a tropical cyclone to explore the response of a highly diverse reef fish assemblage to habitat ...live coral habitat) and the addition of functionally unique species in groups ...
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Ecosystem regime shifts disrupt trophic structure
... Key words: coral reef fish; coral bleaching; functional group; habitat degradation; mesopredator; trophic level; trophic pyramid; coral reef ecology.. Regime shifts have been documented [r] ...
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Mass coral bleaching causes biotic homogenization of reef fish assemblages
... Branching Porites 57.13 ± 2.79 21.81 ± 1.80 43.73 ± 2.92 45.86 ± 4.39 42.08 ± 2.30 -15.01 ± 3.39 Degraded 10.46 ± 1.80 7.04 ± 0.96 59.80 ± 4.74 - 14.63 ± 1.87 4.12 ± 3.39 Massive Porites 49.37 ± 2.81 23.82 ± 1.55 47.61 ± ...
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