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Importance of coastal vegetated habitats for tropical marine fishes in the Red Sea
| العنوان: | Importance of coastal vegetated habitats for tropical marine fishes in the Red Sea |
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| المؤلفون: | Dunne, Aislinn, Coker, Darren James, Kattan, Alexander, Tietbohl, Matthew, Ellis, Joanne, Jones, Burton, Berumen, Michael L. |
| المساهمون: | Marine Science Program, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Division, Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Waikato, Tauranga, 3110, New Zealand |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: KAUST Repository |
| الوصف: | Marine vegetated habitats such as seagrass, mangroves, and macroalgae are common along tropical coastlines globally and provide habitats for a diversity of fishes, including juvenile fish and species found on coral reefs. Understanding the use of these habitats by different fish species and life stages is fundamental to spatial planning, fisheries management, and conservation. While previous studies have focused on the habitat potential of seagrass, macroalgae, or mangroves for coral reef fish independently, it is important to consider their combined roles, as tropical seascapes are often mosaics of such habitats. In this study, we evaluated habitat associations across life stages for fish species in coral reefs, seagrasses, macroalgae, and mangroves in Saudi Arabia’s central Red Sea. Through in situ visual surveys, we documented 36% of local coral reef fish species in one or more vegetated habitats, with the fraction of coral reef species utilizing macroalgae or seagrass much greater than that of mangroves (29%, 18%, and 6%, respectively). Mangroves hosted mainly juvenile fish (83% of observed population) and macroalgae hosted the largest proportion of herbivores (39% of observed population), suggesting that each environment offers different combinations of resources (food and shelter), and a mix of these habitats could support biological connectivity across a seascape. Species targeted by local fisheries made up 37% of the species documented in vegetated habitats. The use of multiple habitat types by juvenile and commercially important fishes in the Red Sea underscores the need for a holistic approach to habitat protection. ; This work was supported by funding from the Red Sea Research Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. We thank Collin Williams for assistance with fieldwork and fish identification. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf; application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document; image/jpeg |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| تدمد: | 0025-3162 1432-1793 |
| Relation: | https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00227-023-04234-z; Dunne, A., Coker, D. J., Kattan, A., Tietbohl, M. D., Ellis, J. I., Jones, B., & Berumen, M. (2023). Importance of coastal vegetated habitats for tropical marine fishes in the Red Sea. Marine Biology, 170(7). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04234-z; Marine Biology; http://hdl.handle.net/10754/685597; 170 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00227-023-04234-z |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10754/685597 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04234-z |
| Rights: | Archived with thanks to Marine Biology under a Creative Commons license, details at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.10D76E71 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 00253162 14321793 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s00227-023-04234-z |