What makes mangroves attractive to fish? Use of artificial units to test the influence of water depth, cross-shelf location, and presence of root structure

Nagelkerken, Ivan; Faunce, Craig H.

doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2008.04.011

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“…Nagelkerken & Faunce (2007) found that besides mangrove-associated fish, other fish species are also attracted by mangrove structure, confirming the overall attractiveness of mangrove as shelter habitat. These authors suggested in a different paper that if mangroves occurred on coral reefs, they would be equally attractive to fish (Nagelkerken & Faunce 2008). However, the preference for this habitat is contextdependent, being expressed by some species, including Haemulon flavolineatum, only towards standing mangrove roots (as in the current study), not hanging roots (Nagelkerken et al 2010).…”

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Habitat type and schooling interactively determine refuge-seeking behavior in a coral reef fish throughout ontogeny

Huijbers¹,

Nagelkerken²,

Govers³

et al. 2011

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Habitat selection by coral reef fish is influenced by a variety of biological and abiotic factors, but the relative importance of these factors is expected to change throughout ontogeny, especially for species that utilize different habitats during their life cycle. In this study, 2 in situ choice experiments were designed to test the individual as well as the interactive effects of habitat structure and schooling (with conspecifics or heterospecifics) on refuge-seeking behavior of a coral reef fish. The experiments were conducted for 3 size-classes of the common reef fish Haemulon flavolineatum, a species that shows multiple habitat shifts throughout its ontogeny. We tested the hypothesis that, due to the additive effects of schooling and structure in providing suitable refuge, fish would be more attracted to a microhabitat with conspecifics or heterospecifics than to a microhabitat or conspecifics alone. In the habitat-only experiment, early juveniles (< 3 cm fork length) showed no preference for any microhabitat structures, whereas larger fish preferred complex mangrove structure to seagrass, rubble, or coral. In the second experiment, which offered various combinations of habitat, including habitat with both conspecifics and heterospecifics, the preference for mangrove structure was completely replaced by attraction to conspecifics for all size-classes. Unexpectedly, the combination of conspecifics and habitat structure showed no additive effect. The results demonstrate that although H. flavolineatum makes multiple shifts in habitat throughout its life cycle, in the absence of other biological or environmental drivers preference for shelter habitat past the early post-settlement stage remains the same. The study further demonstrates the critical role of the presence of conspecifics in microhabitat choice, and provides a better understanding of the relative importance of these factors, whether in isolation or additively, in selection of refuge habitat by a reef fish.

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Habitat type and schooling interactively determine refuge-seeking behavior in a coral reef fish throughout ontogeny

Huijbers¹,

Nagelkerken²,

Govers³

et al. 2011

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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“…Because of its important role in terms of aquaculture, coastal fishery, carbon fixation, nutrient assimilation, and sediment acceleration (Fan et al, 2013;Nagelkerken et al, 2008;Dale et al, 2014), mangroves are fertile habitats for foraging, breeding, and sheltering of various kinds of animal such as fish, crustaceans, birds, reptiles, and mammals (Alongi, 2002) . In China, mangroves naturally occur along the southeast Chinese coast and traverse the provinces of Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Taiwan, intermittently extending from 18°N to 27°N, which includes 37 mangrove tree species (Li and Lee, 1997), and approximately 260 fish species have been recorded in Chinese mangroves waters (He et al, 2007).…”

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Huang¹,

Huang²,

Wu³

et al. 2016

Turk. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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The composition and temporal variation of fish assemblages were investigated in the mangrove of Qinzhou Harbor, Guangxi Province, China from October 2011 to September 2012. A total of 67 fish species belonging to 57 genera, 32 families and 12 orders were collected. The Gobiidae (23.9%) were the most species-rich families, and the dominant species were Acentrogobius viridipunctatus and Bostrychus sinensis. Species richness, total abundance, total biomass and individual species abundance or biomass for the numerically abundant fish species were significantly different seasonally, such as abundance and biomass for A. viridipunctatus, B. sinensis, Glossogobius giuris, Acanthogobius hasta, Gerres limbatus, Sillago sihama, Lateolabrax japonicas, Moolgarda cunnesius and Leiognathus brevirostris. The Non-metricMultidimensional Scalings (NMDS) ordination showed a clear separation of fish samples with an anticlockwise direction for different sampling months, which indicated a gradual change in fish assemblages over the months. Results of two-way ANOVA showed fish species richness, total abundance and total biomass were significantly affected by tidal type in the mangrove of Qinzhou Harbor. However, NMDS ordination showed an unclear separation of fish samples between spring tide and neap tide. One-way ANOSIM further revealed no significant effects of tidal type.

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“…for estuarine and near-shore fisheries [3]. Mangroves is widely recognized as one of coastal ecosystem that support high abundance fish diversity and high numbers of individuals, some of which have great commercial importance [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] and most of mangrove areas are protected worldwide as a nursery ground of fishes [9] [10].…”

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Community structure of fish larvae in mangroves with different root types in Labuhan coastal area, Sepulu – Madura

Muzaki¹,

Giffari²,

Saptarini³

2017

AIP Conference Proceedings

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Reducing the level of leaves damage of (Brassica rapa) caused by armyworm (Spodoptera litura F.) through liquid bioinsecticide formulation of bintaro (Cerbera odollam) Abstract.Mangrove root complexity and shading are well known to give positive correlation for both juveniles and adult fishes. However, it is remain unclear whether that complexity would affect the community of fish larvae (ichthyoplankton). This study aimed to address the question, especially in mangrove area in coastal area of Sepulu, Madura which projected as a mangrove protection area. Sampling periods were from March to May, 2016. The samples of fish larvae were collected by plankton net (mesh-size 0.150 and 0.265 mm) from six different locations representing different root types (stilt root, pneumatophore, combination of stilt root-pneumatophore and unvegetated area). As the results, 6 families were identified, namely Gobiidae, Blennidae, Pomacentridae, Carangidae, Engraulidae and Ambassidae, respectively. Gobiidae seems to be the most abundant and widely dispersed in the area. Results of two-way AnovadanTukey HSD (both at p = 0.05) indicate that there were significant difference in the larval abundance regarding locations, sampling periods and interaction of both factors. As for number of taxa, significant difference occurred only from factors of locations and sampling periods, but not for interaction of both factors. Highest larval abundance and number of taxa occurred in Rhizophoraspp (with stilt root), indicating that root complexity would affect the community of fish larvae. Ordination by canonical analysis shows that different taxa of the fish larvae are tend to be distributed on different locations.

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What makes mangroves attractive to fish? Use of artificial units to test the influence of water depth, cross-shelf location, and presence of root structure

Cited by 51 publications

References 28 publications

Habitat type and schooling interactively determine refuge-seeking behavior in a coral reef fish throughout ontogeny

Habitat type and schooling interactively determine refuge-seeking behavior in a coral reef fish throughout ontogeny

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Community structure of fish larvae in mangroves with different root types in Labuhan coastal area, Sepulu – Madura

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