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Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, February 2004
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Title
Mangroves enhance the biomass of coral reef fish communities in the Caribbean
Published in
Nature, February 2004
DOI 10.1038/nature02286
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Authors

Peter J. Mumby, Alasdair J. Edwards, J. Ernesto Arias-González, Kenyon C. Lindeman, Paul G. Blackwell, Angela Gall, Malgosia I. Gorczynska, Alastair R. Harborne, Claire L. Pescod, Henk Renken, Colette C. C. Wabnitz, Ghislane Llewellyn

Abstract

Mangrove forests are one of the world's most threatened tropical ecosystems with global loss exceeding 35% (ref. 1). Juvenile coral reef fish often inhabit mangroves, but the importance of these nurseries to reef fish population dynamics has not been quantified. Indeed, mangroves might be expected to have negligible influence on reef fish communities: juvenile fish can inhabit alternative habitats and fish populations may be regulated by other limiting factors such as larval supply or fishing. Here we show that mangroves are unexpectedly important, serving as an intermediate nursery habitat that may increase the survivorship of young fish. Mangroves in the Caribbean strongly influence the community structure of fish on neighbouring coral reefs. In addition, the biomass of several commercially important species is more than doubled when adult habitat is connected to mangroves. The largest herbivorous fish in the Atlantic, Scarus guacamaia, has a functional dependency on mangroves and has suffered local extinction after mangrove removal. Current rates of mangrove deforestation are likely to have severe deleterious consequences for the ecosystem function, fisheries productivity and resilience of reefs. Conservation efforts should protect connected corridors of mangroves, seagrass beds and coral reefs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 15 1%
Mexico 12 <1%
Brazil 10 <1%
Australia 5 <1%
India 5 <1%
Sweden 4 <1%
Colombia 3 <1%
Singapore 3 <1%
Malaysia 3 <1%
Other 25 2%
Unknown 1191 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 223 17%
Researcher 218 17%
Student > Bachelor 213 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 196 15%
Other 65 5%
Other 200 16%
Unknown 161 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 540 42%
Environmental Science 349 27%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 71 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 23 2%
Engineering 16 1%
Other 71 6%
Unknown 206 16%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 December 2023.
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#1,507,099
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#38,042
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#2,942
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#51
of 318 outputs
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