Spatial patterns in abundance of a damselfish reflect availability of suitable habitat

Oecologia

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-120

  Holbrook, Sally J ^a   Forrester, Graham E ^a   Schmitt, Russell J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Damselfish; Habitat availability; Recruitment limitation; Resource limitation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CORAL REEF; HABITAT QUALITY; METAPOPULATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

(SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CHROMIS CHROMIS; DASCYLLUS ARUANUS; PERCIFORMES; PISCES;

EID: 0033962974     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008826     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Allen GR (1991) Damselfishes of the world. Mergus Baensch, Melle
2. Ault TR, Johnson CR (1998) Spatially and temporally predictable fish communities on coral reefs. Ecol Monogr 68:25-50
3. Beukers JS, Jones GP (1997) Habitat complexity modifies the impact of piscivores on a coral reef fish population. Oecologia 114:50-59
4. Booth DJ, Beretta GA (1994) Seasonal recruitment and habitat associations in a guild of pomacentrid reef fishes at two sites around St. Thomas, USVI. Coral Reefs 13:81-89
5. Booth DJ, Brosnan DH (1995) The role of recruitment dynamics in rocky shore and coral reef fish communities. Adv Ecol Res 26:309-385
6. Booth DJ, Wellington G (1998) Settlement preferences in coral reef fishes: effects on patterns of adult and juvenile distributions, individual fitness and population structure. Aust J Ecol 23:274-279
7. Caley MJ, St. John J (1996) Refuge availability structures assemblages of tropical reef fishes. J Anim Ecol 65:414-428
8. Caley MJ, Carr MH, Hixon MA, Hughes TP, Jones GP, Menge BA (1996) Recruitment and the local dynamics of open marine populations. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 27:477-500
9. Carr MH (1994) Effects of macroalgal dynamics on recruitment of a temperate reef fish. Ecology 75:1320-1333
10. Chesson P (1998a) Recruitment limitation: a theoretical perspective. Aust J Ecol 23:234-240
11. Chesson P (1998b) Spatial scales in the study of reef fishes: a theoretical perspective. Aust J Ecol 23:209-215
12. Connell JH (1985) The consequences of variation in initial settlement vs. post-settlement mortality in rocky intertidal communities. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 93:11-45
13. Doherty PJ (1991) Spatial and temporal patterns in recruitment. In: Sale PF (ed) The ecology of fish on coral reefs. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 261-292
14. Doherty PJ, Fowler AJ (1994) An empirical test of recruitment limitation in a coral reef fish. Science 263:935-939
15. Doherty PJ, Williams DMcB (1988) The replenishment of coral reef fish populations. Ocean Mar Biol Annu Rev 26:487-551
16. Doherty PJ, Kingsford MJ, Booth D, Carleton J (1996) Habitat selection before settlement by Pomacentrus coelestis. Mar Freshwater Res 47:391-399
17. Eckert GJ (1985) The settlement of coral reef fishes to different natural substrata and at different depths. Proc 5th Int Coral Reef Symp 5:385-390
18. Elliott JK, Elliott JM, Mariscal RN (1995) Host selection, location, and association behaviors of anemonefishes in field settlement experiments. Mar Biol 122:377-389
19. Forrester GE (1990) Factors influencing the juvenile demography of a coral reef fish. Ecology 71:1666-1681
20. Forrester GE (1995) Strong density-dependent survival and recruitment regulate the abundance of a coral reef fish. Oecologia 103:275-282
21. Grosberg RK, Levitan DR (1992) For adults only - supply-side ecology and the history of larval biology. Trends Ecol Evol 7: 130-133
22. Gutierrez L (1998) Habitat selection by recruits establishes local patterns of adult distrubution in two species of damselfishes: Stegastes dorsopunicans and S. planifrons. Oceologia 115: 268-277
23. Hixon MA, Beets JP (1989) Shelter characteristics and Caribbean fish assemblages: experiments with artificial reefs. Bull Mar Sci 44:666-680
24. Holbrook SJ, Schmitt RJ (1997) Settlement patterns and process in a coral reef damselfish: in situ nocturnal observations using infrared video. Proc 8th Int Coral Reef Symp 2:1143-1148
25. Holbrook SJ, Carr MH, Schmitt RJ, Coyer JA (1990) Effect of giant kelp on local abundance of reef fishes: the importance of ontogenetic resource requirements. Bull Mar Sci 47:104-114
26. Holbrook SJ, Kingsford MJ, Schmitt RJ, Stephens JS Jr (1994) Spatial and temporal patterns in assemblages of temperate reef fish. Am Zool 34:463-475
27. Itzkowitz M (1977) Spatial organization of the Jamaican damselfish community. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 28:217-242
28. Jones GP (1991) Postrecruitment processes in the ecology of coral reef fish populations: a multifactorial perspective. In: Sale PF (ed) The ecology of fish on coral reefs. Academic Press. San Diego, pp 293-330
29. Mapstone BD, Fowler AJ (1988) Recruitment and the structure of assemblages of fish on coral reefs. Trends Ecol Evol 3:72-77
30. Menge BA (1991) Relative importance of recruitment and other causes of variation in rocky intertidal community structure. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 146:69-100
31. Munday PL, Jones GP, Caley MJ (1997) Habitat specialisation and the distribution and abundance of coral-dwelling gobies. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 152:227-239
32. Nemeth RS (1998) The effect of natural variation in substrate architecture on the survival of juvenile bicolor damselfish. Environ Biol Fishes 53:129-141
33. Ohman MC, Munday PL, Jones GP, Caley MJ (1998) Settlement strategies and distribution patterns of coarl-reef fishes. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 225:219-238
34. Olafsson EB, Peterson CH, Ambrose WG Jr (1994) Does recruitment limitation structure populations and communities of macro-invertebrates in marine soft sediments: the relative signficance of pre-and post-settlement processes. Annu Rev Oceanogr Mar Biol 32:65-109
35. Risk A (1997) Effects of habitat on the settlement and post settlement success of the ocean surgeonfish Acanthurus bahianus. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 161:51-59
36. Robertson DR (1988) Abundances of surgeonfishes on patch-reefs in Caribbean Panama: due to settlement, or post-settlement events? Mar Biol 97:495-501
37. Sale PF (1971) Extremely limited home range in a coral reef fish, Dascyllus aruanus (Pisces: Pomaceritridae). Copeia 1971:324-327
38. Sale PF (1972) Influence of corals in the dispersion of the Pomacentrid fish, Dascyllus aruanus. Ecology 53:741-744
39. Sale PF (1991) Reef fish communities: open nonequilibrial systems. In: Sale PF (ed) The ecology offish on coral reefs. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 564-598
40. Sale PF, Dybdahl R (1975) Determinants of community structure for coral reef fishes in an experimental habitat. Ecology 56: 1343-1355
41. Sale PF, Douglas WA, Doherty PJ (1984) Choice of microhabitats by coral reef fishes at settlement. Coral Reefs 3:91-99
42. Schmitt RJ, Holbrook SJ (1990) Contrasting effects of giant kelp on dynamics of surfperch populations. Oecologia 84:419-429
43. Schmitt RJ, Holbrook SJ (1996) Local-scale patterns of larval settlement in a planktivorous damselfish - do they predict recruitment? Mar Freshwater Res 47:449-63
44. Schmitt RJ, Holbrook SJ (1999a) Early mortality of juvenile damselfish: implications for assessing the processes that determine patterns of abundance. Ecology 80:35-50
45. Schmitt RJ, Holbrook SJ (1999b) Settlement and recruitment of three damselfish species: larval delivery and competition for shelter space. Oecologia 118:76-86
46. Schmitt RJ, Holbrook SJ, Osenberg CW (1999) Quantifying the effects of multiple processes on local abundance: a cohort approach for open populations. Ecol Lett 2:294-303
47. Shpigel M (1982) Niche overlap among two species of coral dwelling fishes of the genus Dascyllus (Pomacentridae). Environ Biol Fishes 7:65-68
48. Steele MA (1997) Population regulation by post-settlement mortality in two temperate reef fishes. Oecologia 112:64-74
49. Sweatman HPA (1985) The influence of adults of come coral reef fishes on larval recruitment. Ecol Monogr 55:469-485
50. Sweatman HPA (1988) Field evidence that settling coral reef fish larvae detect resident fishes using dissolved chemical cues. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 124:163-174
51. Tolimieri N (1995) Effects of microhabitat characteristics on the settlement and recruitment of a coral reef fish at two spatial scales. Oecologia 102:52-63
52. Underwood AJ, Fairweather PG (1989) Supply-side ecology and benthic marine assemblages. Trends Ecol Evol 4:16-19
53. Veron JEN (1986) Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
54. Wellington GM (1992) Habitat selection and juvenile persistence control the distribution of 2 closely related Caribbean damselfishes. Oecologia 90:500-508
55. Williams AH (1978) Ecology of threespot damselfish: social organization, age structure, and population stability. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 34:197-213