Reef habitats
Benthic Diversity of Sessile Organisms in Rocky Reef Habitats of Coastal Brazil: An Insight into the Implementation of Marine Protected Areas
... Marine protected areas have proven effective in conservation of several eco- systems, including reef habitats [2] [3] [4]. Its widespread adoption by local, na- tional, and international regulators attests ...
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Comparative effects of different disturbances in coral reef habitats in Moorea, French Polynesia
... Coral reef ecosystems are fundamental to coastal fish- eries, and the provision of fresh seafood, throughout the ...coral reef habitats threaten to undermine the capacity of these ecosystems to yield ...
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Evidence of partial migration in a large coastal predator: opportunistic foraging and reproduction as key drivers?
... on reef-associated sharks over the past 10 years, there is still limited knowledge about how large, wide-ranging predators use coral reef habitats ...Pinnacle Reef in southern Mozambique [2], ...
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Coral reef fish predator maintains olfactory acuity in degraded coral habitats
... healthy and dead-degraded coral water treatments increased their time allocation to the cham- ber of the y-maze injected with damage-released odours, relative to the alternative seawater injected chamber, indicating a ...
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Influence of resource availability on lifehistory traits in coral-feeding butterflyfishes (Pisces: Chaetodontidae)
... consequence, reef fish may be distributed across a wide range of habitat types with differing levels of shelter, prey availability, competition and/ or ...post-settlement reef fish have limited opportunity ...
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Quantifying shark distribution patterns and species-habitat associations: implications of marine park zoning
... protecting reef habitats may be beneficial for sharks that spend a large amount of time on a single reef, the conservation value of coral reef MPAs for mobile sharks that use a wider range of ...
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Global ecological success of Thalassoma fishes in extreme coral reef habitats
... challenging habitats, yet we have relatively little data for the prevalence of this phenomenon at macroecological ...coral reef wrasses and parrotfishes ...swept habitats by fishes in the genus ...
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Spatial distribution and residency of green and loggerhead sea turtles using coastal reef habitats in southern Mozambique
... nearshore reef areas, and the long residency periods of some individuals, we speculate that these turtles are highly susceptible to capture by SSF, either as bycatch or as illegal target ...
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Movements and space use of giant trevally in coral reef habitats and the importance of environmental drivers
... coral reef predators such as lethrinids (for example, ...coral reef fish?, forthcoming) and ser- ranids (for example, Plectropomus leopardus [33,34]) also use small activity spaces relative to reef ...
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Variation in structure and function of reef fish assemblages among distinct coral habitats
... of reef fishes on different coral taxa (Coker et ...tropical reef habitats across ecologically relevant scales, with some habitats providing structure across a greater range of scales ...
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Reef sharks and inshore habitats: patterns of occurrence and implications for vulnerability
... Six reef shark species were recorded, but comprised a relatively small proportion ...blacktip reef shark dominated the catch of reef sharks ...whitetip reef sharks and grey reef sharks ...
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Quantifying water flow within aquatic ecosystems using load cell sensors: a profile of currents experienced by coral reef organisms around Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia
... The field measures presented here also cover a significant gap in the current literature [15–16] by presenting a detailed profile of current velocities across depth and exposure gradients for a large section of a ...
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Nearshore habitats
... bottom), reef (hard-bottom) and pelagic (open" water) ...These habitats are distributed in a distinctive pattern around Tasman Peninsula: the deep, exposed reef habitats along the eastern ...
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Demography of parrotfish: age, size and reproductive variables
... demographic variables: longevity, growth rate, age and size at maturity and timing of sex change of two populations of Chlorurus sordidus at two locations, Guam and the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Although adequate ...
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The likelihood of extinction of iconic and dominant herbivores and detritivores of coral reefs: the parrotfishes and surgeonfishes
... coral reef, seagrass, and estuaries. Coral reef habitat is further subdivided into 6 categories: outer reef channel, back slope, foreslope, lagoon, inter-reef soft substrate and ...
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Do coral reef fishes exploit flow refuges in high-flow habitats
... Most studies of refuging behaviour in fishes have focused on predator avoidance (e.g. Beukers & Jones 1998, Sale 2002, Lehtiniemi 2005). In contrast, our study emphasises the potential direct biophysical advantages ...
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The role of early life history traits on the survival of a coral reef fish
... Variation in early life history traits and survivorship during embryonic and larval development of the coral reef damselfish, P. amboinensis was examined in relation to water temperature. High rearing temperature ...
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The microbial signature provides insight into the mechanistic basis of coral success across reef habitats
... both reef regions (Coral Sea and GBR) and at all depths (10 to 80 m), but the abundance of each phylotype was found to vary between regions and reefs and along the depth gradient ...
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Macroalgal assemblages as indicators of the broad scale impacts of fish farms on temperate reef habitats
... on reef integrate the effects of long term exposure to altered local environmental conditions, as they are sessile and respond to pollution over time (Munda 1993; Pinedo et ...
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Vulnerability of geomorphological features in the Great Barrier Reef to climate change
... this may occur on some GBR fringing reefs as sands are preferentially winnowed. Greater wave access across reef flats under higher sea level may increase spit mobility, particularly at distal unconsolidated ends, ...
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