The impact of ocean warming on fish and fisheries is vigorously debated. Leading theories project limited adaptive capacity of tropical fishes and 14-39% size reductions by 2050 due to mass-scaling limitations of oxygen supply in larger individuals. Using the world’s hottest coral reefs in the ...
根据倒数第二段“While the presence of fish alone cannot restore a coral reef to good health, study author Dr. Mark Meekan explained that “recovery is encouraged by fish that clean the reefs and create space for corals to regrow.”可知,尽管仅有鱼类的存在并不能使珊瑚礁恢复健康,但研究作者...
structural complexity is typically measured using a single and small-scale metric (‘rugosity’) that represents multiple spatial attributes differentially exploited by species, thus limiting a complete understanding of how fish associate with reef structure. We used a novel approach to compare relationsh...
Coral reefs are highly heterogeneous, structurally complex environments that support highly diverse communities of other reef taxa (Syms and Jones2000; Alvarez-Filip et al.2009; Stella et al.2011; Emslie et al.2014). Complex coral formations support a high diversity of reef-fish assemblages, and ...
"Brightly colored fishes against a really dull, gungy reef stand out a lot more and most likely will have a higher chance of being consumed by predators and things like that." He said that this relationship was particularly pronounced during times of rapid decline or coral bleaching -- he ...
Some fish lay their eggs within the coral reefs, some rely on organisms in the reef for food, and others rely on the reef itself for protection. Other species come to the reefs to find mates. As a marine biologist, I study the factors that affect the health of coral reefs (珊瑚礁) ...
In contrast, pelagic fishery resources boast several features relating to social outcomes that have led to calls for greater attention and investment by the academic and policy communities. For example, Roeger et al. (2016) suggest that in response to decreasing fish catch from coral reef areas,...
As for my favorite sport, I’ d say it’s badminton.Coral reefs as you probably know are not just colorful calcium carbonate(钙碳酸盐)structures that provide shelter to a wonderful number of fish, but also a close relationship or partnership between coral polyps(珊瑚虫) and single celled ...
We also explored the evolution of the allometric relationship between body size and growth. Our results show that the evolution of fast growth trajectories in reef fishes has been considerably more common than the evolution of slow growth trajectories. Many reef fish lineages shifted towards faster ...
Instead, fish recruits were found in a range of alternate reef microhabitats, including live, non-branching, non-preferred corals, algal-turf-covered dead corals and coral rubble (Fig. 3c, d). Fig. 3: Post-bleaching recruitment of coral-associated damselfishes: changes in recruit abundance ...