After compiling a large dataset on the prevalence of fish–coral interactions, we found that only a minority of fish species associate strongly with live corals (~5%). Furthermore, we reveal an evolutionary decoupling between fish and coral lineage trajectories. While fish lineages expanded in the...
However, the nature of the fish–coral interactions departed markedly from expectations based on the previous observations. Populations of obligate coral-dependent fishes, including recruits, persisted at Lizard Island, despite a long history of coral loss and recent, catastrophic coral bleaching events....
38). In this hypothesis, evolution is assumed to have modified growth trajectories to avoid the loss of aerobic surplus predicted by GOL2. Body size is instead optimized to maintain a safety margin of oxygen supply beyond basal demand that is adequate to fuel critical...
A model predicting the interactions of various algivore/corallivore guilds on the relative dominance of Porites and algal populations is presented. 展开 关键词: Algivore/corallivore guilds Caribbean Fish-Coral interactions Porites Reef zonation DOI: 10.1007/BF00379034 被引量: 143 年份: 1989...
This study retrospectively reviews the long-term geological evolution of offshore pollution from the perspective of marine geology, and analyses their long-term potential impacts on marine ecosystems. Due to ecological risks associated with pollutants released from offshore sediments, more research on ...
Grid-based process that generates complex and dynamic patterns based the interactions of two chemicals as they diffuse through a medium and react with one another. At every location on the grid these chemicals (usually referred to as A and B) have a chance of causing a reaction that converts...
In terms of ecosystems, coral reef fishes often dominate the literature, with much less known of fishes from estuarine and polar systems. Climate change effects on fish behavior and physiology have received much attention (and some controversy), with less emphasis on species interactions (although ...
Ecology 65:446–454 Hay ME (1984b) Predictable spatial escapes from herbivory: how do these affect the evolution of herbivore resistance in tropical marine communities? Oecologia 64:396–407 Hay ME (1991) Fish-seaweed interactions on coral reefs: effects of herbivorous fishes and adaptations of ...
Monocots are one of the most diverse groups of flowering plants, and tracing the evolution of their ancestral genome into modern species is essential for understanding their evolutionary success. Here, we report a high-quality assembly of the Acorus tata
Coral microbiomes were highly sensitive to thermal anomaly amplitude and exhibited increased bacterial diversity to greater thermal shifts. This effect was explained by the decline of dominant bacterial members and the increase of new, rare and opportunistic taxa, including pathogens, revealing a direct...