Dependence of Caribbean reef fishes on mangroves and seagrass beds as nursery habitats: a comparison of fish faunas between bays with and without mangroves/seagrass beds

By I. Nagelkerken, S. Kleijnen, T. Klop, Racj van den Brand, E. Cocheret de la Morinière, G. van der Velde. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Seascape ecology of coastal biogenic habitats: advances, gaps, and challenges (2011, background): “…require habitat-specific ontogenetic shifts may successfully transition through all life stages only when mangroves exist in close proximity to seagrasses and coral reefs to provide sufficient stage-specific food resources and predator refugia (Nagelkerken et al. 2001, Pittman & McAlpine 2003).”
Effects of the invasive seagrass Halophila stipulacea on the native seagrass, Syringodium filiforme, and associated fish and epibiota communities in the Eastern Caribbean. (2012, background): “For example, only dult yellowtail snapper Ocyurus chrysurus were captured in searass beds in Dominica, yet O. chrysurus is typically found in the uvenile stage, not as adults, in these seagrass beds elsewhere in he Caribbean (Nagelkerken et al., 2000, 2001).”
Mangroves as fish habitat: 50 Years of field studies (2006, background): “…erosion and turbidity, absorb and transform nutrients, and are inhabited by a variety of organisms, opinions vary as to the importance of mangrove habitats to fishes and, by extension, to offshore fisheries (Thollot & Kulbicki 1988, Blaber et al. 1989, Thollot 1992, Nagelkerken et al. 2001).”
Nursery function of tropical back-reef systems (2006, background): “Comparative results will help determine whether species are obligatory or facultative users of the identified juvenile habitats (e.g. Nagelkerken et al. 2001, 2002).”
Post-settlement Life Cycle Migration Patterns and Habitat Preference of Coral Reef Fish that use Seagrass and Mangrove Habitats as Nurseries (2002, background): “From comparisons among bays with and without mangroves or seagrass beds (Nagelkerken et al., 2001), it is known that species that showed strong preference for mangroves in the present study (Lutjanus apodus, L. griseus, Haemulon sciurus) depend largely on the presence or absence of seagrass beds.”
Ontogenetic dietary changes of coral reef fishes in the mangrove-seagrass-reef continuum: stable isotopes and gut-content analysis (2003, methodology): “Adult Scarus iserti were rarely observed in seagrass beds and mangroves in Spanish Water Bay in our previous studies (Nagelkerken et al. 2000b, 2001, Cocheret de la Morinière et al. 2002), which makes consumption of food items from the bay habitats by adults unlikely, and the stable isotope data on…”
Tidal fish connectivity of reef and sea grass habitats in the Indo-Pacific (2007, neutral): “Many sea grass studies have used belt transects for fish abundance estimation (Kochzius, 1999; Nagelkerken et al., 2001) based on the methods described in English et al. (1997), and while cumulative species-distance curves showed the most appropriate belt transect length to be 70 m, the sea grass…”
Overlaps in habitat use of fishes between a seagrass bed and adjacent coral and sand areas at Amitori Bay, Iriomote Island, Japan: Importance of the seagrass bed as juvenile habitat (2004, background): “Seagrass beds have been considered important nursery habitat in the Caribbean.(18,29) In the present study area, however, species and individual numbers of juveniles were significantly lower in the seagrass bed compared with those in the coral area.”