A5001661007- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- Agricultural Systems and Practices
- Plant and animal studies
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Polymer-Based Agricultural Enhancements
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
2012-2025
James Cook University
2015-2025
Google (United States)
2022
Australian Research Council
2011-2019
The worldwide decline in coral cover has serious implications for the health of reefs. But what is future reef fish assemblages? Marine reserves can protect from exploitation, but do they biodiversity degrading environments? answer appears to be no, as indicated by our 8-year study Papua New Guinea. A devastating caused a parallel biodiversity, both marine and areas open fishing. Over 75% species declined abundance, 50% less than half their original numbers. greater dependence have on living...
Marine reserves deliver impressive increases in the abundance and size of exploited species on protected reefs, but larval dispersal makes it difficult to estimate their wider benefits. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) contains an extensive network marine reserves. By combining GBR-wide fish surveys, models, commercial fishery catch data, we calculate system-wide ecological economic contributions these for coral groupers ( Plectropomus spp.), region’s most important line fishery. Despite...
An understanding of the extent to which marine populations are connected by larval dispersal is vital, both comprehend past impacts and future prospects for sustaining biodiversity.Marine their supporting ecosystems now subject a multitude threats, most notably overharvesting, pollution,
Recent studies have shown that some coral reef fish larvae return to natal reefs, while others disperse distant reefs. However, the sensory mechanisms used find settlement sites are poorly understood. One hypothesis is use olfactory cues navigate home or other suitable habitats. Here we show a strong association between clownfish Amphiprion percula and reefs surrounding offshore islands in Papua New Guinea. Host anemones A. particularly abundant shallow water beneath overhanging rainforest...
Coral reef ecosystems are under a variety of threats from global change and anthropogenic disturbances that reducing the number type coral species on reefs. reefs support upwards one third all marine fish, so loss habitat may have substantial consequences to local fish diversity. We posit effects degradation will be most severe in regions with highest biodiversity fishes due greater specialization by for particular habitats. Our novel approach this important but untested hypothesis was...
Significance Evidence for natal philopatry, the return of individuals to their location reproduction, is scarce in marine fish populations despite being common anadromous fishes. The proportion returning sites an important metric estimating effects inbreeding and potential local adaptation generate resilience climate change. Here, we present first multigenerational pedigree a wild fish. We resolved genealogical tree families orange clownfish Amphiprion percula spanning up five generations,...
The susceptibility of species to habitat changes depends on which ecological drivers shape individual fitness components. To date, only a few studies have quantified components such as the Lifetime Reproductive Success across multiple generations in wild marine species. Because long-term sampling effort, information is available for population orange clownfish, Amphiprion percula, from Kimbe Island (Papua New Guinea). Previous work clownfish near suggests that there little adaptive potential...
Abstract Aim To determine the applicability of biogeographical and ecological theory to marine species at two remote island locations. This study examines how biogeography, isolation geographic range size influence patterns richness, endemism, composition abundance coral reef fishes. Location Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands in tropical eastern Indian Ocean. Methods Published lists underwater visual surveys were used fishes islands. These data statistically compared with from...
Individuals that forgo their own reproduction in animal societies represent an evolutionary paradox because it is not immediately apparent how natural selection can preserve the genes underlie non-breeding strategies. Cooperative breeding theory provides a solution to paradox: non-breeders benefit by helping relatives and/or inheriting positions; do disperse breed elsewhere of ecological constraints. However, question why contest within group has rarely been addressed. Here, we use wild...
Plasticity, the capacity of individuals to respond changing environments by modifying traits, may be critically important for population persistence allowing adaptive responses on shorter timescales than genetic change. Here, we use clown anemonefish Amphiprion percula , whose access resources is constrained their anemones, test role plasticity in generating variation reproductive success among groups. We surveyed a wild clownfish and found positive correlations between anemone area, fish...
Understanding the degree of connectivity between coastal and island landscapes nearby coral reefs is vital to integrated management terrestrial marine environments in tropics. Coral reef fish are capable navigating appropriate settlement habitats following their pelagic larval phase, but mechanisms by which they do this unclear. The importance olfactory cues site selection has been demonstrated, there increasing evidence that chemical from sources may be important for some species. Here, we...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 461:151-163 (2012) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09788 Ecological versatility and its importance for distribution abundance of coral reef wrasses Charlotte Berkström1,2,*, Geoffrey P. Jones1, Mark I. McCormick1, Maya Srinivasan1 1ARC Centre Excellence Coral Reef Studies, School Tropical Biology, James...
In social groups, high reproductive skew is predicted to arise when the output of a group limited, and dominant individuals can suppress subordinate efforts. Reproductive suppression often assumed occur via overt aggression or threat eviction. It unclear, however, whether eviction alone sufficient induce restraint by subordinates. Here, we test two assumptions model investigating resource limitation generates competition leads in clown anemonefish Amphiprion percula . First, use feeding...
There has been substantial research on the factors that structure reef fish assemblages, but this mostly focused nearshore or continental reefs. This study examines patterns of abundance and species composition for two iconic groups coral fishes, angelfishes (family Pomacanthidae) butterflyfishes Chaetodontidae) at isolated, oceanic reefs in Indian Ocean: Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Six explanatory variables were investigated to determine whether large-scale physical are more...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 394:215-222 (2009) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08294 Coral-dwelling fishes resistant bleaching but not mortality of host corals Mary C. Bonin1,2,*, Philip L. Munday1,2, Mark I. McCormick1,2, Maya Srinivasan2, Geoffrey P. Jones1,2 1ARC Centre Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and 2School Tropical...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 186:283-292 (1999) - doi:10.3354/meps186283 Experimental evaluation of roles habitat selection and interspecific competition in determining patterns host use by two anemonefishes Maya Srinivasan*, Geoffrey P. Jones, M. Julian Caley School Biology Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland...
The size and structure of social groups animals can be governed by a range ecological factors behavioral interactions. In small, highly site-attached coral reef fishes, group is often constrained the habitat patch they are restricted to. However, may also influenced changes in abundance along important environmental gradients, such as depth or distance offshore. addition, body sex within determined dominance relationships among members. Here we examined roles interactions governing orange...