High mortality during settlement is a population bottleneck for a tropical surgeonfish

By Peter J. Doherty, V. Dufour, R. Galzin, M. Hixon, M. Meekan, Serge Planes. 2004

229 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. M. Pratchett
2. I. Nagelkerken
3. D. Booth
4. C. Layman
5. F. Juanes
6. M. Meekan
7. Will Figueira
8. G. Almany

In Global and Planetary Change

1. M. Pratchett
2. I. Nagelkerken
3. D. Booth
4. C. Layman
5. F. Juanes
6. Will Figueira
7. M. Meekan
8. G. Almany

Citations in the corpus

• Experimental assessment of sensory modalities of coral-reef fish larvae in the recognition of their settlement habitat (2005, background): “Yet, in situ, the response of larvae to the settlement cues should be to quickly reduce the high predation at settlement (Steele and Forrester 2002; Doherty et al. 2004).”
• Latitudinal shifts in coral reef fishes: why some species do and others do not shift (2014, background): “Predation is a major source of mortality for early life stages of tropical fish (Hixon and Beets 1993; Planes and Lecaillon 2001; Doherty et al. 2004), and minimizing lethal interactions with predators is critical to successful population establishment in temperate areas.”
• The Back-Calculation of Fish Growth From Otoliths (2009, background): “environments, or between juvenile and adult habitats, are “critical periods” where fish undergo intense periods of mortality (e.g., Doherty et al. 2004, Webster & Almany 2006), and thus are of great interest to ecologists and fisheries biologists due to their influence on population regulation.”
• Role of habitat in mediating mortality during the post‐settlement transition phase of temperate marine fishes (2007, background): “60% of potential settlers were lost during settlement independent of cohort size (Doherty et al., 2004).”
• The predation gauntlet: early post-settlement mortality in reef fishes (2006, result): “Although we were unable to include in our analysis the mortality estimate for Naso unicornis from Doherty et al. (2004), their conclusion that approximately 61% of larvae were consumed by predators during settlement closely matches our estimate of the average effect of predators.”
• Nursery function of tropical back-reef systems (2006, background): “More recently, nonestuarine back-reef system habitats have been determined important juvenile habitats for species that live on the reef as adults (Doherty 2002, Nakamura & Sano 2004, Doherty et al. 2004).”
• Causes of decoupling between larval supply and settlement and consequences for understanding recruitment and population connectivity (2010, methodology): “…larval supply appear optimal for some systems, such as reef nets in reef lagoons where total larval flux into the lagoon can be estimated (e.g., Doherty et al., 2004; Coronado et al., 2007), no such panacea exists for unclosed systems such as the intertidal, shallow subtidal, hydrothermal, and…”
• Predators drive community structure in coral reef fish assemblages (2015, background): “Furthermore, available data indicate that densities of key predators at these locations have remained relatively stable over recent years, whereas larval supply and related recruitment is by nature highly variable (Doherty et al. 2004, Kingsford 2009).”