How important are mangroves and seagrass beds for coral-reef fish? The nursery hypothesis tested on an island scale

By I. Nagelkerken, C. Roberts, G. Velde, M. Dorenbosch, M. Riel, E. Morinière, P. Nienhuis. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Potential for landscape-scale positive interactions among tropical marine ecosystems (2014, background): “Overall, it is clear that inland mangrove and seagrass bed areas form an important nursery habitat for parrotfish (Nagelkerken 2009) and that mangrove forests or mangrove-seagrass systems contribute high fractions of the populations of various reef fish species (Nagelkerken et al. 2002).”
MANGROVES AS ESSENTIAL NURSERY HABITAT FOR GOLIATH GROUPER (EPINEPHELUS ITAJARA) (2007, background): “…of the focal species’ life history and a thorough evaluation that culminates in demonstration of the habitat’s greater contribution per unit area to the production of the adult population (Beck, 1995; Beck et al., 2001; Laegdsgaard and Johnson, 2001; Nagelkerken et al., 2002; Halpern, 2004a,b).”
The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services (2011, background): “…shellfish species utilize mangroves and seagrass beds as nursery grounds, and eventually migrate to coral reefs as adults, only to return to the mangroves and seagrasses to spawn (Layman and Silliman 2002, Nagelkerken et al. 2002, Mumby et al. 2004, Rountree and Able 2007, Meynecke et al. 2008).”
Alternative states on coral reefs: beyond coral–macroalgal phase shifts (2009, background): “…diverse and common benthic component of coral reefs in the Indian Ocean (Reinicke & Van Ofwegen 1999), Red Sea (Riegl & Piller 1999), Indo-Pacific (Benayahu 1997, Benayahu et al. 2004) 298 Norström et al.: Phase shifts on coral reefs and on the Great Barrier Reef (Dinesen 1983, Ninio et al. 2000).”
AN EVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE FOR LINKAGES BETWEEN MANGROVES AND FISHERIES: A SYNTHESIS OF THE LITERATURE AND IDENTIFICATION OF RESEARCH DIRECTIONS (2005, background): “Studies that compare fish abundances in areas adjacent to mangroves against comparable areas without mangroves give an indication of what may happen to faunal communities and fisheries if mangroves are lost (Nagelkerken et al. 2001, 2002, Mumby et al. 2004).”
Overlaps in habitat use of fishes between a seagrass bed and adjacent coral and sand areas at Amitori Bay, Iriomote Island, Japan: Importance of the seagrass bed as juvenile habitat (2004, result): “Seagrass beds have been considered important nursery habitat in the Caribbean.18,29 In the present study area, however, species and individual numbers of juveniles were significantly lower in the seagrass bed compared with those in the coral area.”
Influence of habitat configuration on connectivity between fish assemblages of Caribbean seagrass beds, mangroves and coral reefs (2007, background): “For 3 of the 5 species for which a dependence on seagrass–mangrove habitats had been suggested on the neighbouring island of Curaçao (Dorenbosch et al. 2004) and which were also recorded here in seagrass–mangrove habitats (Haemulon sciurus, Lutjanus apodus and L. mahogoni), highest densities were no”
Tidal fish connectivity of reef and sea grass habitats in the Indo-Pacific (2007, background): “Sea grass and mangrove habitats play a fundamental role in coral reef fish life history (Nagelkerken et al., 2002; Dorenbosch et al., 2007; Unsworth et al., 2007).”
Connectivity of reef fish between mangroves and coral reefs: Algorithms for the design of marine reserves at seascape scales (2006, background): “Despite a wealth of empirical studies, understanding of the ontogenetic shifts in habitat use by reef fish is far from comprehensive (Shulman and Ogden, 1987; Birkeland, 1988; Birkeland and Amesbury, 1988; Sedberry and Carter, 1993; Ley et al., 1999; Nagelkerken et al., 2000b; de la Moriniere, 2002;”
Mangrove use by the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (2010, background): “Most Bahamian lionfish research has focused on coral reef habitat; no information exists on colonization effects in mangrove habitat—a critical habitat that influences reef community structure and overall reef fish biomass (Nagelkerken et al. 2002, Mumby et al. 2004, Adams et al. 2006).”
Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions (2019, background): “…on many tropical coral reefs, juveniles of reef fishes rely substantially on non‐reef habitats such as seagrasses, mangroves and tropical seaweed forests as nurseries prior to ontogenetic migration to coral reefs as adults (Fulton et al., 2019; Nagelkerken et al., 2002; Wilson et al., 2010).”