Structure, food and shade attract juvenile coral reef fish to mangrove and seagrass habitats: a field experiment

By M. Verweij, I. Nagelkerken, D. D. Graaff, M. Peeters, E. Bakker, G. Velde. 2006

200 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. I. Nagelkerken
2. G. Velde
3. J. Bell
4. M. Dorenbosch
5. Richard K. F. Unsworth
6. Y. Mgaya
7. W. Verberk
8. David C. Smith

In Global and Planetary Change

1. I. Nagelkerken
2. G. Velde
3. J. Bell
4. M. Dorenbosch
5. Richard K. F. Unsworth
6. W. Verberk
7. David C. Smith
8. Y. Mgaya

In Oceanography

1. I. Nagelkerken
2. G. Velde
3. M. Dorenbosch
4. J. Bell
5. W. Verberk
6. Richard K. F. Unsworth
7. David C. Smith
8. Y. Mgaya

Citations in the corpus

• Caribbean mangroves and seagrass beds as daytime feeding habitats for juvenile French grunts, Haemulon flavolineatum (2006, background): “…diurnal resting schools of juvenile grunts on patch reefs is generally known (e.g. Ogden and Ehrlich 1977; McFarland and Hillis 1982) and the daytime shelter function of mangroves and seagrass beds to these Wsh has been established before (Cocheret de la Morinière et al. 2004; Verweij et al. 2006).”
• The importance of mangroves, mud and sand flats, and seagrass beds as feeding areas for juvenile fishes in Chwaka Bay, Zanzibar: gut content and stable isotope analyses (2006, background): “As observed from other studies, structural complexity and shade in relation to predation risk are among the important factors in determining distribution of juvenile fishes (Laegdsgaard & Johnson, 2001; Cocheret de la Morinière et al., 2004; Verweij et al., 2006).”
• Structuring of Indo-Pacific fish assemblages along the mangrove-seagrass continuum (2009, background): “Species of Sphyraenidae and Carangidae are more likely to use physical structure to increase predation efficiency, rather than as protection (Verweij et al. 2006).”
• The habitat function of mangroves for terrestrial and marine fauna: a review (2008, background): “…proproots, trunks, fallen branches and leaves make a complex habitat for a host of potential prey organisms, and the rich epiflora of algae and diatoms found on the mangroves and associated substrata are an important food source for many fish species (Blaber, 2000; Verweij et al., 2006a).”
• High connectivity of Indo-Pacific seagrass fish assemblages with mangrove and coral reef habitats (2008, background): “…that shallow water habitats experience diel faunal migrations (Nagelkerken et al. 2000, Unsworth et al. 2007), the majority of research on seagrass fish assemblages has not included diel sampling (e.g. Nagelkerken et al. 2000, Mumby et al. 2003, Dorenbosch et al. 2006, Verweij et al. 2006).”
• Tidal fish connectivity of reef and sea grass habitats in the Indo-Pacific (2007, background): “This reduced the effects of habitat complexity and structure on fish assemblages (Verweij et al., 2006).”
• Influence of habitat configuration on connectivity between fish assemblages of Caribbean seagrass beds, mangroves and coral reefs (2007, background): “Fishes are known to seek shelter in shaded habitats or in habitats with a high structural complexity (Laegdsgaard & Johnson 2001, Cocheret de la Morinière et al. 2004, Eggleston et al. 2004, Verweij et al. 2006).”
• Distributions of Indo-Pacific lionfishes Pterois spp. in their native ranges : implications for the Atlantic invasion (2012, background): “Both seagrass beds and mangroves are important nursery habitats for a number of economically and ecologically important species in the Caribbean (Mumby et al. 2004, Verweij et al. 2006).”