Diversity and functional importance of coral‐feeding fishes on tropical coral reefs

By A. Cole, M. Pratchett, Geoffrey P. Jones. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Changes in Biodiversity and Functioning of Reef Fish Assemblages following Coral Bleaching and Coral Loss (2011, background): “While many early researchers suggested that there were few fishes capable of feeding on corals [105], recent reviews of corallivory reveal that there are at least 128 species of reef fishes from 11 families that feed on coral [106,107].”
Reef degradation and the loss of critical ecosystem goods and services provided by coral reef fishes (2014, background): “Preferred corals for newly settled fishes, as well as for many obligate coral-feeding and coral-dwelling adult fishes, are erect branching species, and predominantly Acropora [29,30 ].”
Early post-settlement mortality and the structure of coral assemblages (2010, background): “In addition, other families of fishes that are predominantly herbivorous (e.g. Scaridae) may cause incidental mortality of young corals while scraping algae from carbonate substrates (Hixon 1997, Cole et al. 2008).”
Thirty Years of Research on Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (1986–2016): Scientific Advances and Emerging Opportunities (2017, background): “, Acropora, Stylophora and Pocillopora; [204]) and coral-feeding fishes (Acropora and Pocillopora; [4]) are the same corals that are preferred by Acanthaster spp.”
CoRAl-ASSoCIATED INvERTEbRATES: DIvERSITy, EColoGICAl IMPoRTANCE AND vulNERAbIlITy To DISTuRbANCE (2011, background): “This greatly exceeds the number of vertebrate species (128 species) known to feed on scleractinian corals (Cole et al. 2008) and is much higher than previous estimates of the diversity (51 species) of invertebrate corallivores (Rotjan & lewis 2008).”
Influence of habitat degradation on fish replenishment (2010, background): “As the majority of reef fishes are not reliant on live corals as a nutritional resource (Cole et al. 2008), further work is urgently needed to understand the nature of the benefits live coral confers to coral reef fishes.”
Increasing ocean temperatures allow tropical fishes to survive overwinter in temperate waters (2010, background): “The two chaetodontids are facultative corallivores which inhabit rubble and rocky structures and feed on a variety of benthic invertebrates with coral being only a minor component of their diet (Cole et al., 2008).”