Descending to the twilight-zone: changes in coral reef fish assemblages along a depth gradient down to 65 m

By E. Brokovich, S. Einbinder, N. Shashar, Moshe Kiflawi, Salit Kark. 2008

175 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. Stuart Sandin
2. D. Wagner
3. M. Slattery
4. S. Kahng
5. E. Sala
6. Michael Lesser
7. A. Friedlander
8. B. Sabelli

In Global and Planetary Change

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2. E. Sala
3. D. Wagner
4. S. Kahng
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6. E. Weil
7. M. Slattery
8. Phil J. Bouchet

Citations in the corpus

• Spatial patterns of the structure of reef fish assemblages at a pristine atoll in the central Pacific (2010, background): “…numerical abundance, biomass) have been shown to change consistently with depth (from the surface to about 30 m) and can be attributed to the closer proximity to habitats with greatly different physical and biological diversity (Gosline 1965, Friedlander & Parrish 1998, Brokovich et al. 2008).”
• Community ecology of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems (2010, background): “Patterns of fish distribution and abundance were similar to that of Enewetak, with a steep decline in number of species to 65 m. Zooplanktivores increased with depth to almost 100% at 65 m where Serranidae and Labridae species dominated (Brokovich 2008; Brokovich et al. 2008).”
• Grazing pressure on coral reefs decreases across a wide depth gradient in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea (2010, background): “On the other hand, the bathymetric distribution of herbivore species richness seems to mimic that of other piscine functional groups at the study site which did not exhibit a similar monotonic decrease in abundance (Brokovich et al. 2008).”
• Phase shift to algal dominated communities at mesophotic depths associated with lionfish (Pterois volitans) invasion on a Bahamian coral reef (2011, background): “However, the number of herbivorous fish has been shown to decline with depth into the mesophotic zone (Brokovich et al. 2008), and grazing pressure on mesophotic reefs is also low compared to shallow reefs (Brokovich et al. 2010).”
• The challenge of small and rare species in marine biodiversity surveys: microgastropod diversity in a complex tropical coastal environment (2011, background): “In the Gulf of Aqaba, Brokovich et al. (2008) have documented changes in the composition of reef fishes at 30 and 50 m, which they correlated with a reduction in the abundance of branching corals with depth.”