Local ecological impacts of regional biodiversity on reef fish ...

Local Ecological Impacts of Regional Biodiversity on Reef Fish ...

Local ecological impacts of regional biodiversity on reef fish assemblages. Alonso González- Cabello* and David R. Bellwood. Australian Research Council ...

Methods Cryptobenthic reef fish assemblages from four habitats (coral heads, rubble, and horizontal and vertical surfaces of boulders) were collected using.

Local ecological impacts of regional biodiversity on reef fish ...

Aim We examined comparative data for cryptobenthic reef fishes to determine how variation in regional species richness relates to local species richness, ...

Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate ...

Our most striking finding is the strong and consistent effect of biodiversity on global reef fish biomass. Species richness and functional ...

Coral Reefs Benefit From Reduced Land-Sea Impacts Under Ocean ...

Again, the researchers found that local land-sea conditions influenced reef ecosystem health. Reefs with the highest cover of reef-builders had ...

Reef Fishes in Biodiversity Hotspots Are at Greatest Risk from Loss ...

Coral reefs support upwards of one third of all marine species of fish, so the loss of coral habitat may have substantial consequences to local ...

Biodiversity, population regulation, and the stability of coral-reef fish ...

We provide field experimental evidence that high biodiversity—in particular, the combined effects of predators and competitors—acts in a way that regulates the ...

Local Threats - Reef Resilience Network

Overfishing (i.e., catching more fish than the system can support) leads to declines in fish populations, ecosystem-wide impacts, and impacts on dependent human ...

Regional heterogeneity in coral species richness and hue reveals ...

A principal ecological attribute of coral reef communities is their spectral variability. This comprises the widely-recognized diversity of ...

Degradation of coral reefs altered the community trophic structure ...

A smaller group of fish may result from poor resources in the ecosystems and/or overfishing, suggesting a decline of the ecosystem functioning ...

Diversity, functional redundancy, and vulnerability of reef fish ...

Functional richness, evenness, and divergence did not vary substantially between sites and, in general, indicated that the fish communities in the selected ...

Coral reefs benefit from reduced land–sea impacts under ... - Nature

Reefs with increased herbivorous fish populations and reduced land-based impacts, such as wastewater pollution and urban runoff, had positive coral cover ...

Relationship between corals and fishes on the Great Barrier Reef

There are strong mutual dependencies between the reef-building corals and reef-inhabiting fishes, with many fish species depending on corals for food and ...

Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate ...

It is shown that biodiversity is among the strongest predictors of reef fish community biomass, comparable in importance to global temperature gradients and ...

Marine protected areas enhance coral reef functioning by promoting ...

Although there is strong evidence that such measures positively affect community structure, their impact on the rate of key ecological processes ...

Reef Fish Diversity Across the Temperate South Pacific Ocean

Patterns of species richness and their structuring forces at multiple scales provide a critical context for research efforts focusing on ...

Habitat biodiversity as a determinant of fish community structure on ...

Richness of coral species overall had a positive effect on fish species richness but had no effect on total fish abundance or evenness. At both localities, ...

Habitats diversity and MPA regulations are insufficient in promoting ...

We found no differences in species and functional composition of fishes between areas with different protection levels. However, reef fish assemblages depended ...

Changes in Biodiversity and Functioning of Reef Fish Assemblages ...

The global degradation of coral reef ecosystems [62] has generated considerable concern regarding ecosystem-level consequences of sustained and ongoing coral ...

Social, Economic, and Ecological Trade-offs in Coral Reef Systems

Using a systematic review of coral reef fishery reconstructions since the 1940s, we show that declining trends in fisheries catch and fish ...