Spatial, temporal and ontogenetic patterns of habitat use by coral reef fishes (Family Labridae)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 133, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 1-11

  Green, Alison L ^a,b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Dept of Mar and Wildlife Resources   (American Samoa)

Author keywords

Abundance; Distribution; Habitat description; Ontogenetic change; Patterns; Processes; Recruitment; Visual census methods

Indexed keywords

HABITAT; ONTOGENETIC CHANGE; REEF FISH; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL PATTERNS;

CORAL SEA, LIZARD ISLAND;

LABRIDAE;

EID: 0029667228     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps133001     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Andrew NL, Mapstone BD (1987) Sampling and the description of spatial pattern in marine ecology. Oceanogr Mar Biol A Rev 25:39-90
2. Bell JD, Craik GJS, Pollard DA, Russell BC (1985) Estimating length frequency distributions of large reef fish underwater. Coral Reefs 4:41-44
3. Bellwood DR, Alcala AC (1988) The effect of a minimum length specification on visual estimates of density and biomass of coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs 7:23-27
4. Brock RE (1982) A critique of the visual census method for assessing coral reef fish populations. Bull Mar Sci 32(1): 269-276
5. Brock VE (1954) A preliminary report on a method of estimating reef fish populations. J Wildl Mgmt 18:297-308
6. Choat JH (1982) Fish feeding and the structure of benthic communities in temperate waters. A Rev Ecol Syst 13:423-449
7. Choat JH, Bellwood DR (1985) Interactions amongst herbivorous fishes on a coral reef: influence of spatial variation. Mar Biol 89:221-234
8. DeMartini EE, Roberts, D. (1982) An empirical test of biases in the rapid visual technique for species-time censuses of reef fish assemblages. Mar Biol 70:129-134
9. Doherty PJ, Williams DMcB (1988) The replenishment of coral reef fish populations. Oceanogr Mar Biol A Rev 26: 487-551
10. Eckert GJ (1985) Population studies of labrid fishes on the southern Great Barrier Reef. PhD thesis, University of Sydney
11. Fowler AJ (1987) The development of sampling strategies for population studies of coral reef fishes. A case study. Coral Reefs 6:49-58
12. Fowler AJ (1990) Spatial and temporal patterns of distribution and abundance of chaetodontid fishes at One Tree Reef, southern GBR. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 64:39-53
13. Goldman B, Talbot FH (1976) Aspects of the ecology of coral reef fishes. In: Jones OA, Endean R (eds) Biology and geology of coral reefs. Academic Press, New York, p 125-154
14. Green AL (1992) Damselfish territories: focal sites for studies of the early life history of labroid fishes. Proc. 4th Int Coral Reefs Symp 1:601-605
15. Greenacre MJ (1984) Theory and application of correspondence analysis. Academic Press, London
16. Jones GP (1988) Experimental evaluation of the effects of habitat structure and competitive interactions on the juveniles of two coral reef fishes. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 123:115-126
17. Jones RS, Thompson MJ (1978) Comparison of Florida reef fish assemblages using a rapid visual technique. Bull Mar Sci 28:159-172
18. Kimmel JJ (1985) A new species-time method for visual assessment of fishes and its comparison with established methods. Environ Biol Fish 12(1):23-32
19. Lincoln Smith MP (1988) Effects of observer swimming speed on sample counts of temperate rocky reef fish assemblages. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 43:223-231
20. Lincoln Smith MP (1989) Improving multispecies rocky reef fish censuses by counting different groups of species using different procedures. Environ Biol Fish 26:29-37
21. Mapstone BD, Fowler AJ (1988) Recruitment and the structure of assemblages of fish on coral reefs. Trends Ecol Evol 3(21):72-77
22. McCormick MI (1989) Spatio-temporal patterns in the abundance and population structure of a large temperate reef fish. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 53:215-225
23. Randall JE, Allen GR, Steene RC (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Crawford House Press, Bathurst
24. Roberts CM, Ormond RFG (1987) Habitat complexity and coral reef fish diversity and abundance on Red Sea fringing reefs. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 41:1-8
25. Sale PF, Sharp BJ (1983) Correction for bias in visual transect censuses of coral reef fishes. Coral Reefs 2:37-42
26. Sale PF, Douglas WA, Doherty PJ (1984) Choice of microhabitats by coral reef fishes at settlement. Coral Reefs 3: 91-99
27. Seber GAF (1984) Multivariate observations. Wiley, New York
28. Talbot FH, Goldman G (1972) A preliminary report on the diversity and feeding relationships of the reef fishes of One Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef system. Proc 1st Int Symp Coral Reefs 1:425-442
29. Thresher RE (1991) Geographic variability in the ecology of coral reef fishes: evidence, evolution, and possible implications. In: Sale PF (ed) The ecology of fishes on coral reefs. Academic Press, Sydney, p 401-436
30. Thresher RE, Gunn JS (1986) Comparative analysis of visual census techniques for highly mobile, reef associated piscivores (Carangidae). Environ Biol Fish 17(2):93-116
31. Underwood AJ (1981) Techniques of analysis of variance in experimental marine biology and ecology. Oceanogr Mar Biol A Rev 19:513-605
32. Victor BC (1986) Larval settlement and juvenile mortality in a recruitment-limited coral reef fish population. Ecol Monogr 56(2):145-160
33. Wiens JA, Rotenberry JT (1981) Habitat associations and community structure of birds in shrubsteppe environments. Ecol Monogr 51:409-422
34. Williams DM (1980) Dynamics of the pomacentrid community on small patch reefs in One Tree Lagoon (Great Barrier Reef). Bull Mar Sci 30:159-170
35. Williams DM (1982) Patterns in the distribution of fish communities across the central Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 1:35-43
36. Williams DM (1986) Temporal variation in the structure of reef slope fish communities (central Great Barrier Reef): short-term effects of Acanthaster planci infestation. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 28:157-164
37. Williams DM (1991) Patterns and processes in the distribution of coral reef fishes. In: Sale PF (ed) The ecology of fishes on coral reefs. Academic Press, Sydney, p 437-474
38. Williams DM, Hatcher AI (1983) Structure of fish communities on outer slopes of inshore, mid-shelf and outer shelf reefs of the Great Barrier Reef. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 10: 239-250
39. Williams DM, Sale PF (1981) Spatial and temporal patterns of recruitment of juvenile coral reef fishes to coral habitats within One Tree Lagoon, Great Barrier Reef. Mar Biol 65: 245-253