Quantifying herbivory across a coral reef depth gradient

By R. Fox, D. Bellwood. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Coral–macroalgal phase shifts or reef resilience: links with diversity and functional roles of herbivorous fishes on the Great Barrier Reef (2010, background): “Furthermore, our visual observations and other visual census and video data on similar GBR reef slope habitats (Fox and Bellwood 2007, 2008a) suggest that the herbivorous fish species we recorded provided the bulk of the large reef fish grazing capacity on our sites.”
The shape of success in a turbulent world: wave exposure filtering of coral reef herbivory (2017, background): “However, as the abundance of herbivorous fishes does not necessarily equate to their function (Fox & Bellwood 2008), herbivory is most effectively quantified through direct observations of their feeding frequency (Bellwood, Hughes & Hoey 2006; Fox & Bellwood 2007, 2008).”
Sediment‐mediated suppression of herbivory on coral reefs: Decreasing resilience to rising sea‐levels and climate change? (2008, background): “For coral reefs, this assumption is based largely on inferential data (Airoldi 2003), although the highest herbivorous and detritivorous fish densities are found on the reef crest, where sediment loads are lowest (Purcell and Bellwood 2001; Wilson et al. 2003; Fox and Bellwood 2007).”
Spatial patterns of the structure of reef fish assemblages at a pristine atoll in the central Pacific (2010, background): “Conversely, herbivores tend to decrease in density with depth, likely responding to lesser availability, productivity, and/or quality of algal resources at greater depths (Russ 1984, Fox & Bellwood 2007).”
Cross-shelf variation in the role of parrotfishes on the Great Barrier Reef (2008, methodology): “Fox and Bellwood (2007) reported similar rates on the reef crest and outer reef flat of Pioneer Bay, a leeward inshore reef in the central GBR (0.46 and 0.23% h 1, respectively).”
Remote video bioassays reveal the potential feeding impact of the rabbitfish Siganus canaliculatus (f: Siganidae) on an inner-shelf reef of the Great Barrier Reef (2008, methodology): “Measures of herbivore abundance were obtained using underwater visual censuses (data taken from Fox and Bellwood 2007 ).”
Size-dependent variation in the functional role of the parrotfish Scarus rivulatus on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (2008, background): “Scarus rivulatus was selected because it is the most abundant scarid on the inner-shelf Great Barrier Reef, Australia (GBR), and may therefore exert a significant functional role in reef ecosystem processes (Fox & Bellwood 2007, Hoey & Bellwood 2007, Mantyka & Bellwood 2007a,b).”
Herbivory and the Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs: Knowledge Gaps and Implications for Management (2015, background): “However, herbivorous fishes strongly track spatial variation in productivity across the reef landscape, such that grazing intensity is often highest in the most productive habitats (Van den Hoek et al. 1978, Russ 2003, Fox & Bellwood 2007).”
Direct evaluation of macroalgal removal by herbivorous coral reef fishes (2007, background): “crest sites (Hatcher 1981; Klumpp and Polunin 1990; Russ 2003; Bathgate and Bellwood 2007), and the diVerences in abundances of herbivorous reef Wshes between study reefs (Carpenter 1986).”
The non-linear relationship between body size and function in parrotfishes (2008, background): “Even if the overall importance of the parrotWsh group has been acknowledged, quantitative analyses are urgently needed in order to understand the functional impacts of Wshing on coral reefs (Fox and Bellwood 2007).”
Functional diversity responses to changing species richness in reef fish communities (2008, background): “…by maximum depth, which is related to the spatial separation of access to food resources (Thresher & Colin 1986, Nagelkerken et al. 2001, Fox & Bellwood 2007), gave 5 maximum depth categories (very shallow: <10 m, shallow: 10–25 m, medium: 25–50 m, deep: 50–100 m; very deep: >100 m)…”
Macroalgal grazing selectivity among herbivorous coral reef fishes (2007, background): “These 6 species are functionally the most important herbivorous reef fish species at the study site and are among the most abundant herbivorous fishes on Great Barrier Reef (GBR) inshore reefs (Fox & Bellwood 2007, Mantyka & Bellwood 2007).”
Nutritional ecology of marine herbivorous fishes: ten years on (2009, background): “For example, in a thorough empirical treatment of grazing impacts across a depth gradient, Fox & Bellwood (2007) listed the following hypotheses to explain why grazing pressure by herbivorous species differed among habitats: costs of dealing with wave energy, tidal access, effect of territorial…”
Monitoring functional groups of herbivorous reef fishes as indicators of coral reef resilience : a practical guide for coral reef managers in the Asia Pacific region (2009, background): “Many of these studies have demonstrated a strong negative relationship between fish grazing intensity (particularly biomass) and macroalgal cover (Lewis 1986, Williams and Polunin 2001, Mumby et al 2006, 2007, Fox and Bellwood 2007; but see Wismer et al 2009).”
Grazing pressure on coral reefs decreases across a wide depth gradient in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea (2010, background): “To date, depth gradients used to examine the interaction between algae and herbivores in coral reefs were largely limited to depths of no more than 20 m (Morrison 1988, Fox & Bellwood 2007).”