CHAPTER 14 – Density Dependence in Reef Fish Populations

By M. Hixon, M. Webster. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Rethinking ecological inference: density dependence in reef fishes (2002, background): “These disparate conclusions have led to debate about when (or even if ) regulatory processes operate in the life cycle of reef fish (e.g. Doherty & Fowler 1994; Hixon & Webster 2002).”
Emerging from Hjort's Shadow (2008, background): “In contrast, there is strong evidence for it in the early juvenile stage (Myers and Cadigan, 1993; Cowan et al., 2000; Kimmerer et al., 2000; Doherty, 2002; Hixon and Webster, 2002; Shoji and Tanaka, 2007).”
Larval retention and connectivity among populations of corals and reef fishes: history, advances and challenges (2009, background): “…of view have diminished as empirical examples demonstrating that population regulation falls along a continuum from little or no density dependence to strong density dependence have amassed (Caley et al. 1996; Hixon and Webster 2002; Hixon et al. 2002; Osenberg et al. 2002; Hixon and Jones 2005).”
Size structural change in lightly exploited coral reef fish communities: Evidence for weak indirect effects (2004, background): “Piscivorous fishes are significant consumers of fish biomass, and predation is an important source of mortality and widely thought to be an important structuring force at subpopulation scales on coral reefs (Hixon and Webster 2002).”
Role of habitat in mediating mortality during the post‐settlement transition phase of temperate marine fishes (2007, background): “Density-independent factors are thought to control the success of the early lifehistory stages (Hixon & Webster, 2002).”
PRIORITY EFFECTS IN CORAL REEF FISH COMMUNITIES (2003, background): “…density-dependent mortality, which alters relative abundance and thus community structure, is most common shortly after settlement (review by Hixon and Webster 2002), and recruit mortality generally decreases greatly following settlement (review by Hixon 1991, Caley 1998), recruitment…”
Density dependence and population regulation in marine fish: a large‐scale, long‐term field manipulation (2012, background): “While there are examples of inverse density dependence at small scales in reef fishes (reviews by Hixon and Webster 2002, Osenberg et al. 2002, White et al. 2010), Allee effects have seldom been detected in marine fishery species at the scale of entire stocks (Myers et al. 1995).”
Density-dependent spillover from a marine reserve: long-term evidence (2005, background): “At the spatial scale of an entire reproductively closed marine population, the metapopulation (a group of local populations linked by larval dispersal), the processes of immigration and emigration are, by definition, not relevant (Hixon and Webster 2002).”
Red snapper management in the Gulf of Mexico: science- or faith-based? (2011, unknown): “2008), could actually have a negative impact on stock productivity by increasing predation (Hixon and Beets 1993; Hixon and Webster 2002; Walters et al. 2008b).”
MARINE RESERVES EXPLOIT POPULATION STRUCTURE AND LIFE HISTORY IN POTENTIALLY IMPROVING FISHERIES YIELDS (2005, background): “…postdispersal density-dependent recruitment, often induced by competitive and predatory interactions or cannibalism, is pervasive and routinely strong in marine fishes as well as in some invertebrates (e.g., Caddy 1986, Caley et al. 1996, Myers 2001, Hixon and Webster 2002, Osenberg et al. 2002).”