Live corals are the key habitat forming organisms on coral reefs, contributing to both
biological and physical structure. Understanding the importance of corals for reef fishes is …

Structural complexity provided by the living coral reef framework is the basis of the rich and
dynamic biodiversity in coral reefs. In many cases today, the reduction in habitat complexity …

A pelagic larval stage is found in nearly all demersal marine teleost fishes, and it is during
this pelagic stage that the geographic scale of dispersal is determined. Marine biologists …

1. The impact of environmental disturbance and habitat loss on associated species is
expected to be dependent on a species' level of specialization. We examined habitat use …

Noise pollution is an anthropogenic stressor that is increasingly recognized for its negative
impact on the physiology, behavior and fitness of marine organisms. Driven by the recent …

Otolith morphometrics has been shown to provide a practical basis for stock discrimination
and ageing. This approach has been extensively used by fisheries scientists over the last …

Tropical shallow-water habitats such as mangroves and seagrass beds are widely
acknowledged as important juvenile habitats for various coral reef fish species, most of …

The importance of seagrass beds and mangroves as juvenile habitats for coral reef fishes is
still debatable. We hypothesised that the configuration of these habitats in the marine …

Habitat specificity plays a pivotal role in forming community patterns in coral reef fishes, yet
considerable uncertainty remains as to the extent of this selectivity, particularly among newly …

Acoustic landscapes, or soundscapes, can vary due to biological ('biophony'), geophysical
('geophony') and anthropogenic ('anthrophony') components, and in some environments …