The ontogeny of home ranges: Evidence from coral reef fishes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1773, 2013, Pages

  Welsh, J Q ^a   Goatley, C H R ^a   Bellwood, D R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coral reefs; Ecosystem function; Home range; Ontogeny; Parrotfish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CORAL REEF; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FISH; HOME RANGE; ONTOGENY; PERCIFORM; PREDATION RISK; SEX REVERSAL; SEXUAL MATURITY;

ANTHOZOA; PISCES; SCARIDAE;

EID: 84886994828     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2066     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Börger L, Dalziel BD, Fryxell JM. 2008 Are there general mechanisms of animal home range behaviour? A review and prospects for future research. Ecol. Lett. 11, 637-650. (doi:10.1111/j. 1461-0248.2008.01182.x)
2. Owen-Smith N, Fryxell JM, Merrill EH. 2010 Foraging theory upscaled: the behavioural ecology of herbivore movement. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 365, 2267-2278. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0095)
3. Jetz W, Carbone C, Fulford J, Brown JH. 2004 The scaling of animal space use. Science 306, 266-268. (doi:10.1126/science.1102138)
4. Johnson DDP, Macdonald DW, Newman C, Morecroft MD. 2001 Group size versus territory size in group-living badgers: a large-sample field test of the resource dispersion hypothesis. Oikos 95, 265-274. (doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706. 2001.950208.x)
5. Cagnacci F, Boitani L, Powell RA, Boyce MS. 2010 Animal ecology meets GPS-based radiotelemetry: a perfect storm of opportunities and challenges. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 365, 2157-2162. (doi:10.1098/rstb. 2010.0107)
6. Huey RB. 1991 Physiological consequences of habitat selection. Am. Nat. 137, S91-S115. (doi:10. 2307/2462290)
7. Broomhall LS, Mills MGL, du Toit JT. 2003 Home range and habitat use by cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) in the Kruger National Park. J. Zool. 261, 119-128. (doi:10.1017/S0952836903004059)
8. Imansyah MJ, Jessop TS, Ciofi C, Akbar Z. 2008 Ontogenetic differences in the spatial ecology of immature Komodo dragons. J. Zool. 274, 107-115. (doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2007.00368.x)
9. Gagliano M, McCormick MI, Meekan MG. 2007 Survival against the odds: ontogenetic changes in selective pressure mediate growth-mortality trade-offs in a marine fish. Proc. R. Soc. B 274, 1575-1582. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.0242)
10. Holmes TH, McCormick MI. 2010 Size-selectivity of predatory reef fish on juvenile prey. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 399, 273-283. (doi:10.3354/ meps08337)
11. White PJ, Ralls K. 1993 Reproduction and spacing patterns of kit foxes relative to changing prey availability. J. Wildl. Manag. 57, 861-867. (doi:10. 2307/3809090)
12. Haskell JP, Ritchie ME, Olff H. 2002 Fractal geometry predicts varying body size scaling relationships from mammal and bird home ranges. Nature 418, 527-530. (doi:10.1038/nature00840)
13. Carbone C, Pettorelli N, Stephens PA. 2011 The bigger they come, the harder they fall: body size and prey abundance influence predator-prey ratios. Biol. Lett. 7, 312-315. (doi:10.1098/rsbl. 2010.0996)
14. Trent TT, Rongstad OJ. 1974 Home range and survival of cottontail rabbits in southwestern Wisconsin. J. Wildl. Manag. 38, 459-472. (doi:10.2307/3800877)
15. Brown GP, Brooks RJ. 1993 Sexual and seasonal differences in activity in a northern population of snapping turtles, Chelydra serpentina. Herpetologica 49, 311-318.
16. Harrison JF, Roberts SP. 2000 Flight respiration and energetics. Annu. Rev. Physiol. 62, 179-205. (doi:10.1146/annurev.physiol.62.1.179)
17. Holekamp KE, Sherman PW. 1989 Why male ground squirrels disperse: a multilevel analysis explains why only males leave home. Am. Sci. 77, 232-239.
18. Sumner J. 2006 Higher relatedness within groups due to variable subadult dispersal in a rainforest skink, Gnypetoscincus queenslandiae. Austral Ecol. 31, 441-448. (doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993-2006. 01599.x)
19. Bonaldo RM, Welsh JQ, Bellwood DR. 2012 Spatial and temporal variation in coral predation by parrotfishes on the GBR: evidence from an inshore reef. Coral Reefs 31, 263-272. (doi:10.1007/ s00338-011-0846-z)
20. Persson L, Leonardsson K, de Roos AM, Gyllenberg M, Christensen B. 1998 Ontogenetic scaling of foraging rates and the dynamics of a size-structured consumer-resource model. Theor. Popul. Biol. 54, 270-293. (doi:10.1006/tpbi.1998.1380)
21. Marshall CD, Guzman A, Narazaki T, Sato K, Kane EA, Sterba-Boatwright BD. 2012 The ontogenetic scaling of bite force and head size in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta): implications for durophagy in neritic, benthic habitats. J. Exp. Biol. 215, 4166-4174. (doi:10.1242/jeb.074385)
22. Bellwood DR, Hughes TP, Folke C, Nyström M. 2004 Confronting the coral reef crisis. Nature 429, 827-833. (doi:10.1038/nature02691)
23. Bellwood DR, Hoey AS, Hughes TP. 2012 Human activity selectively impacts the ecosystem roles of parrotfishes on coral reefs. Proc. R. Soc. B 279, 1621-1629. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.1906)
24. Nash KL, Graham NAJ, Januchowski-Hartley FA, Bellwood DR. 2012 Influence of habitat condition and competition on foraging behaviour of parrotfish. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 457, 113-124. (doi:10.3354/meps09742)
25. Welsh JQ, Bellwood DR. 2012 Spatial ecology of the steephead parrotfish (Chlorurus microrhinos): an evaluation using acoustic telemetry. Coral Reefs 31, 55-65. (doi:10.1007/s00338-011-0813-8)
26. Bonaldo RM, Bellwood DR. 2008 Size-dependent variation in the functional role of the parrotfish Scarus rivulatus on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 360, 237-244. (doi:10.3354/ meps07413)
27. Lokrantz J, Nyström M, Thyresson M, Johansson C. 2008 The non-linear relationship between body size and function in parrotfishes. Coral Reefs 27, 967-974. (doi:10.1007/s00338-008-0394-3)
28. Chen LS. 2002 Post-settlement diet shift of Chlorurus sordidus and Scarus schlegeli (Pisces: Scaridae). Zool. Stud. 41, 47-58.
29. Bellwood DR. 1988 Ontogenetic changes in the diet of early post-settlement Scarus species (Pisces: Scaridae). J. Fish Biol. 33, 213-219. (doi:10.1111/j. 1095-8649.1988.tb05464.x)
30. Cowman PF, Bellwood DR. 2011 Coral reefs as drivers of cladogenesis: expanding coral reefs, cryptic extinction events, and the development of biodiversity hotspots. J. Evol. Biol. 24, 2543-2562. (doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02391.x)
31. Gust N, Choat JH, McCormick MI. 2001 Spatial variability in reef fish distribution, abundance, size and biomass: a multi-scale analysis. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 214, 237-251. (doi:10.3354/ meps214237)
32. Booth DJ, Beretta GA. 2004 Influence of recruit condition on food competition and predation risk in a coral reef fish. Oecologia 140, 289-294. (doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1608-1)
33. Depczynski M, Bellwood DR. 2005 Shortest recorded vertebrate lifespan found in a coral reef fish. Curr. Biol. 15, R288-R289. (doi:10.1016/j.cub. 2005.04.016)
34. Almany GR, Webster MS. 2006 The predation gauntlet: early post-settlement mortality in reef fishes. Coral Reefs 25, 19-22. (doi:10.1007/s00338-005-0044-y)
35. Choat JH, Robertson DR. 1975 Protogynous hermaphroditism in fishes of the family Scaridae. In Intersexuality in the animal kingdom (ed. R Reinboth), pp. 263-283. Berlin, Germany: Springer.
36. Georgii B, Schröder W. 1983 Home range and activity patterns of male red deer (Cervus elaphus L.) in the Alps. Oecologia 58, 238-248. (doi:10. 1007/BF00399224)
37. Jouventin P, Weimerskirch H. 1990 Satellite tracking of wandering albatrosses. Nature 343, 746-748. (doi:10.1038/343746a0)
38. Evans MC. 2008 Home range, burrow-use and activity patterns in common wombats (Vombatus ursinus). Wildl. Res. 35, 455-462. (doi:10.1071/ WR07067)
39. Avgar T, Mosser A, Brown GS, Fryxell JM. 2013 Environmental and individual drivers of animal movement patterns across a wide geographical gradient. J. Anim. Ecol. 82, 96-106. (doi:10.1111/j. 1365-2656.2012.02035.x)
40. Leahy SM, McCormick MI, Mitchell MD, Ferrari MCO. 2011 To fear or to feed: the effects of turbidity on perception of risk by a marine fish. Biol. Lett. 7, 811-813. (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0645)
41. Depczynski M, Bellwood DR. 2004 Microhabitat 6 utilisation patterns in cryptobenthic coral reef fish communities. Mar. Biol. 145, 455-463. (doi:10. 1007/s00227-004-1342-6)
42. Sullivan KA. 1989 Predation and starvation: agespecific mortality in juvenile juncos (Junco phaenotus). J. Anim. Ecol. 58, 275-286. (doi:10. 2307/5000)
43. Bellwood DR, Choat JH. 1989 A description of the juvenile phase colour patterns of 24 parrotfish species (family Scaridae) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Aust. Mus. J. 41, 1-41. (doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.41.1989.134)
44. Kramer MJ, Bellwood DR, Bellwood O. 2012 Cryptofauna of the epilithic algal matrix on an inshore coral reef, Great Barrier Reef. Coral Reefs 31, 1007-1015. (doi:10.1007/s00338-012-0924-x)
45. Rocha CFD. 1999 Home range of the tropidurid lizard Liolaemus lutzae: sexual and body size differences. Rev. Bras. Biol. 59, 125-130. (doi:10. 1590/S0034-71081999000100016)
46. Wilson SK, Bellwood DR, Choat JH, Furnas MJ. 2003 Detritus in the epilithic algal matrix and its use by coral reef fishes. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. 41, 279-309.
47. Bellwood DR, Choat JH. 1990 A functional analysis of grazing in parrotfishes (family Scaridae): the ecological implications. Environ. Biol. Fish. 28, 189-214. (doi:10.1007/BF00751035)
48. Choat JH, Robbins WD, Clements KD. 2004 The trophic status of fishes on coral reefs II. Food processing modes and trophodynamics. Mar. Biol. 145, 445-454. (doi:10.1007/s00227-004-1341-7)
49. Kramer MJ, Bellwood O, Bellwood DR. 2013 The trophic importance of algal turfs for coral reef fishes: the crustacean link. Coral Reefs 32, 575-583. (doi:10.1007/s00338-013-1009-1)
50. Herrel A, Joachim R, Vanhooydonck B, Irschick DJ. 2006 Ecological consequences of ontogenetic changes in head shape and bite performance in the Jamaican lizard Anolis lineatopus. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 89, 443-454. (doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006. 00685.x)
51. van Rooij MJ, Kroon FJ, Videler JJ. 1996 The social and mating system of the herbivorous reef fish Sparisoma viride: one-male versus multi-male groups. Environ. Biol. Fish. 47, 353-378. (doi:10. 1007/BF00005050)
52. Mumby PJ, Wabnitz CCC. 2002 Spatial patterns of aggression, territory size, and harem size in five sympatric Caribbean parrotfish species. Environ. Biol. Fish. 63, 265-279. (doi:10.1023/A:1014359403167)
53. Muñoz RC, Motta PJ. 2000 Interspecific aggression between two parrotfishes (Sparisoma, Scaridae) in the Florida Keys. Copeia 2000, 674-683. (doi:10. 1643/0045-8511(2000)000[0674:IABTPS]2.0.CO;2)
54. Bonaldo RM, Krajewski JP. 2008 Differences in interspecific associations of initial and terminal phase parrotfish in north-eastern Brazil. Mar. Biodivers. Rec. 1, e87. (doi:10.1017/ S1755267207008913)
55. Afonso P, Fontes J, Holland KN, Santos RS. 2008 Social status determines behaviour and habitat usage in a temperate parrotfish: implications for marine reserve design. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 359, 215-227. (doi:10.3354/meps07272)
56. Messier F, Barrette C. 1982 The social system of the coyote (Canis latrans) in a forested habitat. Can. J. Zool. 60, 1743-1753. (doi:10.1139/z82-227)
57. Marler C, Walsberg G, White M, Moore M, Marler CA. 1995 Increased energy expenditure due to increased territorial defense in male lizards after phenotypic manipulation. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 37, 225-231. (doi:10.1007/bf00177401)
58. Hinsch M, Pen I, Komdeur J. 2013 Evolution of defense against depletion of local food resources in a mechanistic foraging model. Behav. Ecol. 24, 245-252. (doi:10.1093/beheco/ars160)
59. Choat JH, Bellwood DR. 1985 Interactions amongst herbivorous fishes on a coral reef: influence of spatial variation. Mar. Biol. 89, 221-234. (doi:10. 1007/bf00393655)
60. Welsh JQ, Bellwood DR. 2012 How far do schools of roving herbivores rove? A case study using Scarus rivulatus. Coral Reefs 31, 991-1003. (doi:10.1007/ 7 s00338-012-0922-z)
61. West D, West BJ. 2012 On allometry relations. Int. J. Mod. Phy. B 26, 1230010. (doi:10.1142/ S0217979212300101)
62. Clutton-Brock TH, Hodge SJ, Flower TP. 2008 Group size and the suppression of subordinate reproduction in Kalahari meerkats. Anim. Behav. 76, 689-700. (doi:10.1016/ j.anbehav.2008.03.015)