Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes - ecological and economic consequences

By M. Pratchett, P. Munday, S. Wilson, Nicholas A. J. Graham, J. Cinner, D. Bellwood, Geoffrey P. Jones, Nicholas Polunin, T. McClanahan. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Herbivore cross‐scale redundancy supports response diversity and promotes coral reef resilience (2016, background): “An increase in large-bodied herbivores may result from the subsequent proliferation of algae, leading to more feeding opportunities and reduced competition (Pratchett et al. 2008).”
Variation in the structure of epifaunal invertebrate assemblages among coral hosts (2010, background): “Specialist species that rely on only one or two species of coral for food or habitat will be particularly susceptible to population declines and extinction risks should their host coral decline in abundance (Pratchett et al. 2008).”
Comparative Effects of Different Disturbances in Coral Reef Habitats in Moorea, French Polynesia (2011, background): “This will, in turn, affect many other reef-associated species [13, 96].”
Gear-based fisheries management as a potential adaptive response to climate change and coral mortality (2009, background): “Climate-induced coral bleaching and the associated degradation of reef habitats have the potential to affect coral reef fishes targeted by artisanal reef and reef-related fisheries through several key mechanisms (reviewed by Pratchett et al. 2008).”
Can marine fisheries and aquaculture meet fish demand from a growing human population in a changing climate (2012, background): “It is known that such impacts, for example coral reef bleaching, are negatively affecting fish production (Graham et al., 2007; Pratchett et al., 2008).”
Reef degradation and the loss of critical ecosystem goods and services provided by coral reef fishes (2014, background): “It generally appears that loss of live coral independent of changes in habitat structure have disproportionate effects on highly specialized fishes that live, feed, or settle on live corals [10,11], whereas declines in topographic complexity may have much broader impacts across a wide range of coral”
Climate change and the future for coral reef fishes (2008, background): “Some reef fish families are more reliant on corals than others, with a higher proportion of species in diverse reef fish families such as butterflyfish (Chaetodontidae), cardinalfish (Apogonidae) and gobies (Gobiidae) directly at risk from loss of corals (Pratchett et al. 2008).”
The importance of structural complexity in coral reef ecosystems (2012, background): “Data on these issues have grown, and meta-analyses of disturbance effects on reef fish have highlighted the importance of structural complexity in mediating declines (Wilson et al. 2006; Pratchett et al. 2008).”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “The loss of structural complexity in these fragmented coral landscapes results in declining abundances and diversities of reef fish and mobile invertebrates (Bonin et al., 2011; Coker et al., 2009; Graham et al., 2007; Pratchett et al., 2008; Syms and Jones, 2000).”
Changes in Biodiversity and Functioning of Reef Fish Assemblages following Coral Bleaching and Coral Loss (2011, methodology): “Thus far, the fishes that appear most susceptible to acute disturbances and coral loss are highly specialized coral-dependent species, such as coral-feeding butterflyfishes [24].”
Detecting range shifts among Australian fishes in response to climate change (2011, background): “For example, coral bleaching is now widespread, and can result in dramatic loss in reef fishes (Booth and Beretta 2002; Pratchett et al. 2008).”