Coral and fish biocoenosis: Ecological cells gradually maturing in complexity, species composition and energy turnover

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 391-405

  Fishelson, Lev ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biocoenosis; Community; Corals; Ecology; Energy turnover

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORAL REEF; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LARVAL SETTLEMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

GULF OF AQABA; INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

ANTHOZOA; BLENNIOIDEI; CEPHALOPHOLIS; GOBIIDAE; GOBIODON; PARAGOBIODON; PISCES;

EID: 0346336881     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EBFI.0000005752.31181.3d     Document Type: Article

References (98)

1. Alcock, J. 1994. Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, 5th edition. Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts. 543 pp.
2. Aronson, R.B., I.G. Macintyre, W.F. Precht, T.J.T. Murdoch & C.M. Wapnic. 2002. The expanding scale of species turnover events on coral reefs in Belize. Ecol. Monogr. 72: 233-249.
3. Avidor, A. 1976. The signal jump and associated sounds in fish of the genus Dascyllus (Pomacentridae) from the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). M.S. Thesis, Tel Aviv University. 63 pp.
4. Becker, K. & L. Fishelson. 2001. The energy expenditure of some Red Sea fish in relation to their lifestyle, p. 141. In: P. Rab (ed.) Proceedings of the Xth European Congress of Ichthyology, Prague.
5. Bell, J.D. & R. Galzin. 1984. Influence of live coral cover on coral reef fish communities. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 15: 265-274.
6. Bell, J.D. & R. Galzin. 1985. Large scale special variation in abundance of butterfly fishes (Chaetodontidae) on Polynesian reefs. Proceedings of the Vth International Coral Reef Symposium, Moorea 5:421-432.
7. Benayahu, Y. & Y. Loya. 1981. Space partitioning of stony corals, soft corals and benthic algae on coral reefs of the northern Gulf of Eilat (Red Sea). Helgoländer wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 30: 362-382.
8. Booth, D.J. 1992. Larval settlement patterns and preferences by domino damselfish Dascyllus albisella Gill. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 155: 85-104.
9. Brett, J.R. & T.D.D. Groves. 1979. Physiological energetics, pp. 279-352. In: W.S. Hoar, D.J. Randall & J.R. Brett (ed.) Fish Physiology, VIII, Academic Press, New York.
10. Carpenter, K.E., R.J. Miclat, V.D. Albaladejo & V.T. Carpuz. 1981. The influence of substrate structure on local abundance and diversity of Philippine reef fishes. Proceedings of the Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium, Manila 2: 497-502.
11. Chabanet, P., H. Relambondrainy, M. Amanieu, G. Faure & R. Galzin. 1997. Relationship between coral reef substrata and fish. Coral Reefs 16:92-102.
12. Choat, J.H. & D.R. Bellwood. 1991. Reef fishes: Their history and evolution, pp. 39-66. in: P.F. Sale (ed.) The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, Academic Press, San Diego.
13. Clarke, A. & N.M. Johnston. 1999. Scaling of metabolic rate with body mass and temperature in teleost fish. J. Anim. Ecol. 68: 893-905.
14. Doherty, P.J. 1981. Coral reef fishes: Recruitment-limited assemblages? Proceedings of the Fourth International Coral Reef Symposium, Manila 2: 465-477.
15. Drickamer, L.C. & L.L. Gillie. 1998. Integrating proximate and ultimate causation in the study of vertebrate behavior: Methods considerations. Amer. Zool. 38: 43-58.
16. Dugatkin, L.A. & M. Masterton-Gibbons. 1996. Cooperation among unrelated individuals: reciprocal altruism, by-product mutualism and group selection in fishes. BioSystems 37: 19-30.
17. Ehrlich, P.R. 1975. The population biology of coral reef fishes. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Systemat. 6: 211-247.
18. Fishelson, L. 1970. Behaviour and ecology of a population of Abudefduf saxatilis (Pomacentridae, Teleostei) at Eilat (Red Sea). Anim. Behav. 18: 225-237.
19. Fishelson, L. 1973. Ecological and biological phenomena influencing coral-species composition on the reef tables at Eilat. Mar. Biol. 19: 183-196.
20. Fishelson, L. 1977. Sociobiology of feeding behavior of coralreef fish along the coral reef of the Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea. Isr. J. Zool. 26: 114-134.
21. Fishelson, L. 1980. Strategies of space and food sharing and partition in fish populations leading toward optimal utilization of resources, pp. 415-445. In: J.E. Bardach, J.J. Magnuson, R.C. May & J.M. Reinhart (ed.) Physiological and Behavioral Manipulation of Food Fish as Production and Management Tools, ICLARM Publications, Manila.
22. Fishelson, L. 1989. Bisexuality and pedogenesis in gobies (Gobiidae, Teleostei) and other fish, or: Why so many little fish in the tropical seas? Senckenbergiana Maritima 20: 147-169.
23. Fishelson, L. 1997. Experiments and observations on food consumption, growth and starvation in Dendrochirus brachypterus and Pterois volitans (Pteroinae, Scorpaenidae). Environ. Biol. Fishes 50: 391-403.
24. Fishelson, L. 1998. Behaviour, socio-ecology and sexuality in damselfishes (Pomacentridae). Ital. J. Zool. (Suppl) 65: 387-398.
25. Fishelson, L., D. Popper & A. Avidor. 1974. Biosociology and ecology of pomacentrid fishes around the Sinai Peninsula (northern Red Sea). J. Fish Biol. 6: 110-133.
26. Fisher, J. 1954. Evolution of bird sociality, pp. 71-83. In: J. Huxley, A.C. Hardy & E.B. Ford (ed.) Evolution as a Process, George Allen & Unwin, London.
27. Focken, U., M. Schiller & K. Becker. 1994. A computer-controlled system for the continuous determination of metabolic rates of fish, pp. 167-171. In: P. Kestlemont, J. Muir, F. Sevilla & P. Williot (ed.) Measure of Success, Cemagref Editions, Paris.
28. Fricke, H.W. 1973. Oekologie und Socialverhalten des Korallenbarsches Dascyllus trimaculatus. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie. 32: 225-256.
29. Fricke, H.W. 1977. Community structure, social organization and ecological requirements of coral reef fish (Pomacentridae). Helgoländer wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen 30:312-426.
30. Friedman, G.M. 1968. Geology and geochemistry of reefs, carbonate sediments and waters, Gulf of Aqaba, (Elat), Red Sea. J. Sedimentol. Petroleum. 38: 895-919.
31. Galzin, R. 1985. Spatial and temporal community structure of coral fish in French Polynesia. Proceedings of the Vth International Coral Reef Symposium, 5: 451-455.
32. Goldman, B. & F.H. Talbot. 1976. Aspects of the ecology of coral reef fishes, pp. 125-154. In: O.A. Jones & R. Endean (ed.) Biology and Geology of Coral Reefs, Academic Press, New York.
33. Goren, M. & M. Dor. 1994. An Updated Checklist of the Fishes of the Red Sea, Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, Jerusalem. 120 pp.
34. Grigg, R.W. 1987. Effect of sewage discharge, fishing pressure and habitat complexity on coral ecosystems and reef fishes in Hawaii. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 103: 25-34.
35. Hamilton, W.J. III, & K.E.F. Watt. 1970. Refuging. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Systemat. 1: 263-286.
36. Hiatt, R.W. & D.W. Strasburg. 1960. Ecological relationships of the fauna on coral reefs on the Marshall Islands. Ecol. Monogr. 30: 65-127.
37. Hixon, M.A. 1991. Predation as a process structuring coral reef fish communities. pp. 475-508. In: P.F. Sale (ed.) The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, Academic Press, San Diego.
38. Hurd, P.L. 1997. Cooperative signaling between opponents in fish fights. Anim. Behav. 54: 1309-1315.
39. Jones, G.P. 1991. Postrecruitment processes in the ecology of coral reef fish populations: A multifactorial perspective. pp. 294-328. In: P.F. Sale (ed.) The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, Academic Press, San Diego.
40. Kaufman, L.B. & J.P. Ebersole. 1984. Microtopography and the organization of two assemblages of coral reef fishes in the West Indies. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 78: 253-268.
41. Keenleyside, M.H.A. 1979. Diversity and Adaptation in Fish Behavior. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York. 410 pp.
42. Landa, J.T. 1998. Bioeconomics of schooling fishes: Selfish fish, quasi-free riders, and other fishy tales. Environ. Biol. Fishes 53: 353-364.
43. Leis, J.M. 2002. Pacific coral fishes: The implication of behaviour and ecology of larvae for biodiversity and conservation, and a reassessment of the open population paradigm. Environ. Biol. Fishes 65: 199-208.
44. Leis, J.M., P.A. Sweatman-Hugh & S.E. Reader. 1996. What the pelagic stages of coral fish are doing out in blue water: Daytime field observations of larval behavioral capabilities. Mar. Freshw. Res. 47: 401-411.
45. Lewis, A.R. 1997. Effects of experimental coral disturbance on the structure of fish communities on larger patch reefs. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 161: 37-50.
46. Loya, Y. 1972. Community structure and species diversity of hermatypic corals at Eilat, Red Sea. Mar. Biol. 13: 100-123.
47. Loya, Y. 1976. Recolonization of Red Sea corals affected by natural catastrophes and man-made perturbations. Ecology 57: 278-289.
48. Loya, Y. 1985. Seasonal changes in growth rate of Red Sea coral populations. Proceedings of the Vth International Coral Reef Congress, Tahiti 5: 187-191.
49. Loya, Y. & R. Klein. 1997. Die Welt der Korallen. Jahr Verlag, Hamburg. 320 pp.
50. Magurran, A.E. & C. Macias Garcia. 2000. Sex differences in behaviour as an indirect consequence of mating system. J. Fish Biol. 57: 839-857.
51. McClanahan, T.R. 1994. Kenyan coral reef lagoon fish: Effects of fishing, substrate complexity and sea urchins. Coral Reefs 13: 231-241.
52. McCormick, M.I. 1994. Comparison of field methods for measuring surface topography and their association with a tropical reef fish community. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 112: 87-96.
53. McManus, J.W., R.J. Miclat & V.P. Palaganas. 1981. Coral and fish community structure of Sombrero Island, Batangas, Philippines, pp. 271-280. In: B. Delasalle, R. Galzin & B. Salvat (ed.) Proceedings of the Vth International Coral Reef Symposium 2, Moorea.
54. Miller, R.J. 1978. Agonistic behavior in fishes and terrestrial vertebrates, pp. 281-311. In: E.S. Reese & F.J. Lighter (ed.) Contrasts in Behavior, Wiley-Interscience Publ. New York, Toronto.
55. Montgomery, W.L., A.A. Myrberg Jr. & L. Fishelson. 1989. Feeding ecology of surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae) in the northern Red Sea, with particular reference to Acanthurus nigrofuscus (Forskäl). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 132: 179-207.
56. Mumby, P.J. 2002. Spatial patterns of aggression, territory size, and harem size in five sympatric Caribbean parrotfish species. Environ. Biol. Fishes 63: 265-279.
57. Myrberg, A.A. 1972. Social dominance and territoriality in the bicolor damselfish Eupomacentrus partitus (Poey) (Pisces, Pomacentridae). Behaviour 41: 207-231.
58. Myrberg, A.A. Jr. & R.E. Thresher. 1974. Interspecific aggression and its relevance to the concept of territoriality in reef fishes. Amer. Zool. 14: 81-96.
59. Myrberg, A.A., E. Spanier & S.J. Ha. 1978. Temporal pattering in acoustic communication. pp. 137-179. In: E.S. Reese & F.J. Lighter (ed.) Contrasts in Behavior, Wiley-Intersciences Publ. New York.
60. Myrberg, A.A., H. Mohler & G.D. Catala. 1986. Sound production by males of a coral reef fish (Pomacentrus partitus); its significance to females. Anim. Behav. 34: 913-923.
61. Mumby, P.J. 1999. Bleaching and hurricane disturbances to populations of coral recruits in Belize. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 190: 27-35.
62. Ohman, M.C. & A. Rajasuriya. 1998. Relationship between habitat complexity and fish communities on coral and sandstone reefs. Environ. Biol. Fishes 53: 19-31.
63. Ormond, R. & A.J. Edwards. 1987. Red Sea fishes. pp. 251-287. In: A.J. Edwards & S.M. Head (ed.) Red Sea, Pergamon Press, Oxford.
64. Peuhkuri, N. 1997. Size-assertive shoaling in fish: The effect of oddity on foraging behavior. Anim. Behav. 54: 271-278.
65. Popper, D. & L. Fishelson. 1973. Ecology and behavior of Anthias squamipinnis (Anthiidae, Teleostei) in the coral habitat of Eilat (Red Sea) J. Exp. Zool. 184: 409-424.
66. Randall, J.E. 1967. Food habits of reef fishes of the West Indies. Stud. Tropical Oceanogr. 5: 665-847.
67. Reese, E.S. 1978. The study of space-related behavior in aquatic animals: Special problems and selected examples. pp. 348-374. In: E.S. Reese & F.J. Lighter (ed.) Contrasts in Behavior, Wiley-Interscience Publ. New-York.
68. Reese, E.S. 1991. How behavior influences community structure of butterflyfishes (Family Chaetodontidae) on Pacific Coral Reefs. Ecol. Int. Bull. 19: 29-41.
69. Reese, E.S. & F.J. Lighter. 1978. Contrasts in Behavior, Wiley-Interscience Publ. New York, Toronto. 406 pp.
70. Rinkevich, B. & Y Loya. 1984. Does light enhance calcification in hermatypic corals? Mar. Biol. 80: 1-6.
71. Roberts, C.M. 1996. Settlement and beyond: Population regulation and community structure of reef fishes, pp. 85-112. In: N.V.C. Polunin & C.M. Roberts (ed.) Reef Fisheries, Chapman & Hall, London.
72. Roberts, C.M. & R.F.G. Ormond. 1987. Habitat complexity and coral reef fish diversity and abundance on Red Sea fringing reefs. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 41: 1-8.
73. Sale, P.F. 1975. Patterns of use of space in a guild of territorial reef fishes. Mar. Biol. 29: 89-97.
74. Sale, P.F. 1978. Reef fishes and other vertebrates: A comparison of social structures, pp. 313-346. In: E.S. Reese, & F.J. Lighter (ed.) Contrasts in Behavior, Wiley-Interscience Publ. New York, Toronto.
75. Sale, P.F. 1980. The ecology of fishes on coral reefs. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. 18: 367-421.
76. Sale, P.F. 1985. Patterns of recruitment of coral reef fishes. Proceedings of the Vth International Coral Reef Symposium 5: 391-401.
77. Sale, P.F. 1991. Reef communities: Open nonequilibrial systems, pp. 564-598. In: P.F. Sale (ed.) The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, Academic Press, San Diego.
78. Schmidt-Nielsen, K. 1993. Scaling: Why is Animal Size so Important? Cambridge University Press, New York. 400 pp.
79. Sheppard, C., A. Price & C. Roberts. 1992. Marine Ecology of Arabian Region, Academic Press, London. 359 pp.
80. Shpigel, M. & L. Fishelson. 1986. Behavior and physiology of coexistence in two species of Dascyllus (Pomacentridae, Teleostei). Environ. Biol. Fishes 17: 253-265.
81. Shpigel, M. & L. Fishelson. 1989a. Food habits and prey selection of three species of groupers of the genus Cephalopholix (Serranidae, Teleostei). Environ. Biol. Fishes 24: 67-73.
82. Shpigel, M. & L. Fishelson. 1989b. Habitat partitioning between species of the genus Cephalopholis (Pisces, Serranidae) across the fringing reef of the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 58: 17-22.
83. Shpigel, M. & L. Fishelson. 1991. Experimental removal of piscivorous groupers of the genus Cephalopholis (Serranidae) from coral habitats of the Gulf of Aqaba (Red Sea). Environ. Biol. Fishes 31: 131-138.
84. Slobodkin, L.B. & L. Fishelson. 1974. The effect of the cleanerfish Labroides dimidiatus on the point diversity of fishes on the reef front at Eilat. Am. Nat. 108: 369-376.
85. Smith, C.L. & J.C. Tyler. 1972. Space resource sharing in a coral reef fish community. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, 14: 125-170.
86. Springer, C.V. & W.F. Smith-Vanitz. 1972. Mimetic relationship involving fishes of the family Blenniidae. Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 112: 1-36.
87. Stewart, B.D. & G.P. Jones. 2001. Association between the abundance of piscivorous fishes and their prey on coral reefs: Implication for prey-fish mortality. Mar. Biol. 138: 383-397.
88. Sweatman, H.P.A. 1983. Influence of conspecifics on choice of settlement by larvae of two pomacentrid fishes (Dascyllus aruanus and D. reticulates) on coral reefs. Mar. Biol. 75: 225-229.
89. Thresher, R.E. 1984. Reproduction in Reef Fishes. TFH Publ. Neptune City. N.J. 340 pp.
90. Thresher, R.E. 1991. Geographic variability in ecology of coral reef fishes: Evidence, evolution, and possible implication. pp. 401-436. In: P. Sale (ed.) The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, Academic Press, San Diego.
91. Vago, R., Z. Dubinsky, A. Genin, M. Ben-Zion & Z. Kizner. 1997. Growth rates of three symbiotic corals in the Red Sea. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42: 1814-1819.
92. Waddington, C.H. 1975. The Evolution of an Evolutionist, Cornell University Press, Ithaca New York. 92 pp.
93. Wiley, E.O. 1981. Phylogenetics. The Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics, John Wiley & Sons, New York. 320 pp.
94. Williams, G.C. 1966. Adaptation and Natural Selection, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 291 pp.
95. Williams, D.M. 1982. Patterns in the distribution of fish communities across the central Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 1: 35-43.
96. Williams, D.M. 1991. Patterns and processes in distribution of coral reef fishes. pp. 437-474. In: P. Sale (ed.) The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs, Academic Press, San Diego.
97. Wilson, D.T. 2001. Patterns of replenishment of coral-reef fishes in the near-shore waters of the San Bias Archipelago, Caribbean Panama. Mar. Biol. 139: 735-753.
98. Zimmermann, Ch. & A. Kunzmann. 2001. Baseline respiration and spontaneous activity of sluggish marine tropical fish of the family Scorpaenidae. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 219: 229-239.