What determines the growth of tropical reef fish larvae in the plankton: food or temperature?

By M. Meekan, J. Carleton, A. McKinnon, K. Flynn, M. Furnas. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Climate change and the future for coral reef fishes (2008, background): “Furthermore, numerous studies have found a positive correlation between larval growth rate and ocean temperature (McCormick and Molony 1995; Wilson and Meekan 2002; Meekan et al. 2003; Sponaugle et al. 2007).”
Fisheries oceanography and the ecology of early life histories of fishes: a perspective over fifty years (2005, unknown): “…Herman et al., 2004), and acoustic devices, those deployed in the water column (e.g. Peiper et al., 1990; Thomas and Kirsch, 2000; Miyashita, 2003; Meekan et al., 2003; Ressler and Jochens, 2003) and those moored to the bottom (e.g. Flagg et al., 1994; David et al., 1999), might provide partial…”
Otolith science entering the 21st century (2005, background): “compared and contrasted the growth rate and hatch date of different cohorts of young fish, perhaps as a function of environmental conditions (Anderson and Dalley 2000; Meekan et al. 2003).”
Larval growth history determines juvenile growth and survival in a tropical marine fish (2004, background): “Similar examples exist for other vertebrates (Berven 1990, Meekan et al. 2003).”
Effects of climate change on fish reproduction and early life history stages (2011, background): “2000) and tropical species (McCormick and Molony 1995;Meekan et al. 2003; Green and Fisher 2004), with temperature explaining up to 89% of variation in growth rates among cohorts of some species (Sponaugle and Cowen 1996).”
Larval dispersal and marine population connectivity. (2009, background): “…(Sponaugle et al. 2005), water masses encountered by larvae can influence their growth and survival through temperature-mediated effects or potential prey availability (Bergenius et al. 2002, Meekan et al. 2003, Sponaugle & Pinkard 2004, Phillips 2005, Jenkins & King 2006, Sponaugle et al. 2006).”
Larval transport and dispersal in the coastal ocean and consequences for population connectivity (2007, background): “Water temperature plays a central role in regulating metabolism and growth (Houde, 1989), with larvae in different temperatures exhibiting variable ELH traits (Meekan et al., 2003; Sponaugle et al., 2006).”
Multi-species regime shifts reflected in spawning temperature optima of small pelagic fish in the western North Pacific (2008, background): “The mechanisms regulating fish population dynamics have long been discussed, focusing on trophic interactions and multi-step processes through food webs (Beaugrand et al. 2003, Platt et al. 2003, Frank et al. 2005, Ware & Thomson 2005).”
Temperature-mediated variation in early life history traits and recruitment success of the coral reef fish Thalassoma bifasciatum in the Florida Keys (2006, background): “%) of the variation in larval growth of a damselfish in Western Australia (Meekan et al. 2003).”
Contrasting spawning temperature optima: Why are anchovy and sardine regime shifts synchronous across the North Pacific? (2008, background): “(Blaxter, 1992; Meekan et al., 2003; Takasuka and Aoki, 2006).”
Environmental influences on larval duration, growth and magnitude of settlement of a coral reef fish (2005, background): “This result differs from studies in temperate and other tropical regions where water temperature is thought to be one of the primary determinants of growth rates (Campana and Hurley 1989; Suthers and Sundby 1993; Meekan et al. 2003).”