Soft corals exert no direct effects on coral reef fish assemblages

Oecologia

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 560-571

  Syms, Craig ^a,b   Jones, Geoffrey P ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Habitat association; Reef fish; Soft corals

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORAL REEF; HABITAT STRUCTURE; ICHTHYOFAUNA; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SOFT CORAL;

EID: 0035004954     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420000617     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Competitive strategies in soft corals (Coelenterata; Octocorallia). IV. Environmentally induced reversals in competitive superiority
2. The community structure of coral reef fishes
3. Effects of the soft coral Xenia puertogalerae on the recruitment of scleractinian corals
4. Life history studies on the Red Sea soft coral Xenia macrospiculata Gohar, 1940. II. Planulae shedding and post-larval development
5. Impact of coral degradation on a chaetodontid fish assemblage (Moorea, French Polynesia)
6. Disturbance and population structure on the shifting mosaic
7. Effects of habitat fragmentation on meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) population dynamics in experimental landscape patches
8. Patterns in the distribution of soft corals across the central Great Barrier Reef
9. Aspects of the life history of a stolon-beating species of Efflatounaria (Octocorallia: Xennidae)
10. An empirical test of recruitment limitation in a coral reef fish
11. The replenishment of coral reef fish populations
12. Recurrent storm disturbance and recovery: A long-term study of coral communities in Hawaii
13. Starfish predation and the creation of mosaic patterns in a kelp-dominated community
14. Slow population turnover in the soft coral genera Sinularia and Sarcophyton on mid- and outer-shelf reefs of the Great Barrier Reef
15. Herbivory in asymbiotic soft corals
16. Predation on soft corals (Octorallia: Alcyonacea) on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
17. Occurrence of aggressive mechanisms during interactions between soft corals (Octocorallia:Alcyoniidae) and other corals on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
18. Shelter characteristics and Caribbean fish assemblages: Experiments with artificial reefs
19. Predation, prey refuges, and the structure of coral-reef fish assemblages
20. Catastrophes, phase shifts, and large-scale degradation of a Caribbean coral reef
21. Patterns of species diversity on coral reefs
22. Hidden treatments in ecological experiments: Re-evaluating the ecosystem function of biodiversity
23. Disturbance, habitat structure and the ecology of fishes on coral reefs
24. Chemical defence of the soft coral Parerythropodium fulvum fulvum (Forskål) in the Red Sea against generalist reef fish
25. Effects of soft corals on scleractinian coral recruitment. I. Directional allelopathy and inhibition of settlement
26. Preliminary evidence for directional allelopathic effects of the soft coral Sinularia flexibilis (Alcyonacea: Octocorallia) on scleractinian coral recruitment
27. Intertidal landscapes: Disturbance and the dynamics of pattern
28. Patterns in the use of space by benthic communities on two coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef
29. The ecology of fishes on coral reefs
30. Reef fish communities: Open nonequilibrial systems
31. Precision and accuracy of visual census technique for fish assemblages on coral patch reefs
32. A consumers guide to evenness indices
33. Disturbance and the structure of coral reef fish communities on the reef slope
34. Disturbance, habitat structure, and the dynamics of a coral-reef fish community
35. Retrospective power analysis
36. The soft coral community on a sheltered reef quadrat at Laing Island (Papua New Guinea)
37. Publication of so-called "negative" results in marine ecology
38. Antipredator defenses in tropical Pacific soft corals (Coelenterata: Alcyonacea). II. The relative importance of chemical and structural defenses in three species of Sinularia
39. Effects of cyclone "Joy" on nearshore coral communities on the Great Barrier Reef
40. Recruitment and population dynamics of a coral reef fish
41. El Niño mass coral mortality: A test of resource limitation in a coral reef damselfish population