Exploitation and habitat degradation as agents of change within coral reef fish communities

By S. Wilson, Rebecca Fisher, Pratchett, Nicholas A. J. Graham, N. Dulvy, Rachel A. Turner, A. Cakacaka, Nicholas Polunin, Stephen P. Rushton. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Predators drive community structure in coral reef fish assemblages (2015, background): “Further, variations in habitat quality may interact to either ameliorate or exacerbate top-down effects, depending on the nature of habitat associations (Wilson et al. 2008).”
Exploitation-related reef fish species richness depletion in the epicenter of marine biodiversity (2011, background): “Anthropogenic activities such as resource overexploitation and habitat destruction can cause extinction of marine populations (Dulvy et al. 2003), changes in reef fish assemblages (McClanahan and Arthur 2001; Grandcourt and Cesar 2003; Wilson et al. 2008) and species loss (Lavides et al. 2010).”
Gear-based fisheries management as a potential adaptive response to climate change and coral mortality (2009, background): “When fishing intensity is low, the greatest threat to the smaller fishes comes from widespread habitat degradation, rather than fishing (Wilson et al. 2008).”
The importance of structural complexity in coral reef ecosystems (2012, background): “Individual habitat use studies may elucidate some of these differences, for example, many species of Pomacentridae are known to associate with specific structural features, coral morphologies or genera (Booth and Beretta 1994; Gutiérrez 1998; Wilson et al. 2008b).”
Changes in Biodiversity and Functioning of Reef Fish Assemblages following Coral Bleaching and Coral Loss (2011, methodology): “Fisheries exploitation typically targets larger individuals and species at higher trophic levels [38], whilst habitat alterations and destruction may affect an altogether different component of fish assemblages [8,39].”
Biodiversity, climate change, and ecosystem services (2009, background): “This poses a grave threat to the millions of species that live in association with coral reef ecosystems [27].”
Coral mortality versus structural collapse as drivers of corallivorous butterflyfish decline (2009, background): “…groups of fishes may decline in direct response to coral loss (Sano et al. 1987; Jones et al. 2004; Garpe et al. 2006; Graham et al. 2006, 2008; Wilson et al. 2006, 2008a), but is restricted to highly specialist species that use coral for food or shelter (Spalding and Jarvis 2002; Munday 2004;…”