Sustained swimming abilities of the late pelagic stages of coral reef fishes

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 149, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 35-41

  Stobutzki, Ilona C ^a   Bellwood, David R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Pelagic juveniles; Recruitment; Reef fish; Self seeding; Swimming

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FISH JUVENILE; JUVENILES; RECRUITMENT; REEF FISH; SWIMMING;

EID: 0030619224     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps149035     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Blaxter JHS (1986) Development of sense organs and behaviour of teleost larvae with special reference to feeding and predator avoidance. Trans Am Fish Soc 115:98-114
2. Brothers EB, Thresher RE (1985) Pelagic duration, dispersal and the distribution of Indo-Pacific coral-reef fishes. In: Reaka ML (ed) The ecology of coral reefs, NOAA Symp Ser Undersea Res, Vol 3. Natl Oceanic Atmos Adm, Rockville, p 53-69
3. Brothers EB, Williams DMcB, Sale PF (1983) Length of larval life in twelve families of fishes at 'One Tree Lagoon', Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Mar Biol 76:319-324
4. Choat JH, Axe L (1996) Growth and longevity in acanthund fishes; an analysis of otolith increments. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 134:15-26
5. Choat JH, Bellwood DR (1991) Reef fishes: their history and evolution. In: Sale PF (ed) The ecology of fishes on coral reefs. Academic Press, San Diego, p 39-68
6. Cowen RK, Hare JA, Fahay MP (1993) Beyond hydrography: can physical processes explain larval fish assemblages within the Middle Atlantic Bight? Bull Mar Sci 53:567-587
7. Doherty PJ (1987) Light-traps: selective but useful devices for quantifying the distributions and abundances of larval fishes. Bull Mar Sci 41:423-431
8. Doherty PJ (1991) Spatial and temporal patterns in recruitment. In: Sale PF (ed) The ecology of fishes on coral reefs. Academic Press, San Diego, p 261-293
9. Doherty PJ, Williams DMcB (1988) The replenishment of coral reef fish populations. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 26: 487-551
10. Frith CA, Leis JM, Goldman B (1986) Currents in the Lizard Island region of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon and their relevance to potential movements of larvae. Coral Reefs 5:81-92
11. Kingsford MJ, Choat JH (1989) Horizontal distribution patterns of presettlement reef fish: are they influenced by the proximity of reefs? Mar Biol 101:285-297
12. Leis JM (1991) The pelagic stage of reef fishes: the larval biology of coral reef fishes. In: Sale PF (ed) The ecology of fishes on coral reefs. Academic Press, San Diego, p 183-230
13. Leis JM, Rennis DS (1983) The larvae of Indo-Pacific coral reef fishes. New South Wales University Press, Sydney, and University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
14. Lou DC, Moltschaniwskyj NA (1992) Daily otolith increments in juvenile tropical parrotfishes and surgeonfishes. Aust J Mar Freshwater Res 43:973-981
15. McCormick M, Milicich MJ (1993) Late pelagic stage goat-fishes; distribution patterns and inferences on schooling behaviour. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 174:15-42
16. Miller TJ, Crowder LB, Rice JA, Marschall EA (1988) Larval size and recruitment mechanisms in fishes: toward a conceptual framework. Can J Fish Aguat Sci 45:1657-1670
17. Sale PF (1980) The ecology of fishes on coral reefs. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 18:367-421
18. Stobutzki IC, Bellwood DR (1994) An analysis of the sustained swimming abilities of pre- and post-settlement coral reef fishes. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 175:275-286
19. 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, San Diego, p 401-436
20. Thresher RE, Colin PL, Bell LJ (1989) Planktonic duration, distribution and population structure of Western and Central Pacific damselfishes (Pomacentridae). Copeia 1989: 420-434
21. Victor BC (1983) Recruitment and population dynamics of a coral reef fish. Science 219:419-420
22. Victor BC (1986) Larval settlement and juvenile mortality in a recruitment-limited coral reef fish population. Ecol Monogr 56:145-160
23. Wardle CS (1977) Effects of size on the swimming speeds of fish. In: Pedley TJ (ed) Scale effects in animal locomotion. Academic Press, London, p 299-313
24. Weihs D (1973) Optimal fish cruising speed. Nature 245:48-50
25. Wellington GM, Victor BC (1989) Planktonic larval duration of one hundred species of Pacific and Atlantic damselfishes (Pomacentridae). Mar Biol 101:557-567
26. Williams DMcB (1982) Patterns in the distribution of fish communities across the central Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 1:35-43
27. Williams DMcB, English S (1992) Distribution of fish larvae around a coral reef: direct detection of a meso-scale, multi-specific patch? Cont Shelf Res 12:923-937
28. Williams DMcB, Russ G, Doherty PJ (1986) Reef fishes: large-scale distributions, trophic interactions and life cycles. Oceanus 29:76-82
29. Williams DMcB, Wolanski E, Andrews JC (1984) Transport mechanisms and the potential movement of planktonic larvae in the central region of the Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 3:229-236
30. Wolanski E (1993) Facts and numerical artefacts in modelling the dispersal of crown-of-thorns starfish larvae in the Great Barrier Reef. Aust J Mar Freshwater Res 44:427-436