Size structural change in lightly exploited coral reef fish communities: Evidence for weak indirect effects

By N. Dulvy, Nicholas Polunin, A. Mill, Nicholas A. J. Graham. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Multiple disturbances and the global degradation of coral reefs: are reef fishes at risk or resilient? (2006, background): “Small-bodied prey fish may be depleted by predators on reefs (Graham et al., 2003), and this applies to smaller life history stages of all species (Dulvy et al., 2004b).”
Phase shifts and the role of herbivory in the resilience of coral reefs (2007, background): “…on coral reefs and the variable role of predation in structuring reef fish communities mean that spatial closures do not have a consistent effect on the numerical abundance and biomass of herbivores (Jennings and Polunin 1997; Graham et al. 2003, 2005; Dulvy et al. 2004; Mumby et al. 2006b).”
Surfing the Biomass Size Spectrum: Some Remarks on History, Theory, and Application (2016, unknown): “14) (Dulvy et al. 2004; Graham et al. 2005).”
Body size‐dependent responses of a marine fish assemblage to climate change and fishing over a century‐long scale (2010, background): “Other heavily fished habitats ranging from temperate continental shelves (Blanchard et al., 2005; Levin et al., 2006) to coral reefs (Dulvy et al., 2004; Graham et al., 2005) and the open oceans (Ward & Myers, 2005) show similar patterns.”
The importance of structural complexity in coral reef ecosystems (2012, background): “…the possibility that in fished areas where predatory fish are generally more depleted (Jennings and Polunin 1997), a prey release response can occur where individual prey fish species or all individuals within smaller size classes can increase in abundance (Graham et al. 2003; Dulvy et al. 2004).”
Testing and recommending methods for fitting size spectra to data (2017, methodology): “Some studies (e.g. Dulvy et al. 2004; Daan et al. 2005; Boldt et al. 2012) used length to represent size, and calculated the slope of the © 2016 Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada.”
Spatial patterns of the structure of reef fish assemblages at a pristine atoll in the central Pacific (2010, methodology): “Lengths (5 cm size classes) were first standardized to the midpoint of the size distribution at the respective stratum to remove the correlation between slope and intercept (Dulvy et al. 2004, Graham et al. 2005).”
Coral reef cascades and the indirect effects of predator removal by exploitation (2004, methodology): “The surveyor (NKD) was trained in fish size estimation using objects of fixed sizes presented at 3 and 7 m distance underwater and fish size estimation was accurate to within 1 cm (Dulvy et al. 2004).”
Complex reef architecture supports more small‐bodied fishes and longer food chains on Caribbean reefs (2011, background): “The fish size 4 spectrum was then described by the slope and intercept of a linear regression of this size 5 frequency distribution (Dulvy et al. 2004).”
Indicators to support an ecosystem approach to fisheries (2005, background): “The selection of different size classes can weight indicators to respond to the release of small fishes from predation, the depletion of larger individuals because of exploitation, or both (Dulvy et al. 2004; Daan et al. 2005).”
Stable isotope profiles of large marine predators: Viable indicators of trophic position, diet, and movement in sharks? (2011, methodology): “Size as a surrogate measure of TP has therefore been used as a tool to examine human-induced impacts on community structure (Pinnegar et al. 2002; Dulvy et al. 2004), alterations in trophic linkages (Pauly et al. 1998), and (or) cascading effects of predator removal (Myers et al. 2007).”
Herbivory and the Resilience of Caribbean Coral Reefs: Knowledge Gaps and Implications for Management (2015, background): “For example, smaller-bodied species may increase in abundance as they are re - leased from competition or predation, potentially compensating for the loss of larger species (Hay 1984, Dulvy et al. 2004, Clua & Legendre 2008).”
Reference points and reference directions for size-based indicators of community structure (2005, background): “Larger size classes will be depleted by the direct effects of fishing, whereas smaller size classes may proliferate because predators have been depleted (Daan et al., 2003; Dulvy et al., 2004).”