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Effects of Marine Reserves versus Nursery Habitat Availability on Structure of Reef Fish Communities

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, June 2012
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Title
Effects of Marine Reserves versus Nursery Habitat Availability on Structure of Reef Fish Communities
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PLOS ONE, June 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0036906
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Authors

Ivan Nagelkerken, Monique G. G. Grol, Peter J. Mumby

Abstract

No-take marine fishery reserves sustain commercial stocks by acting as buffers against overexploitation and enhancing fishery catches in adjacent areas through spillover. Likewise, nursery habitats such as mangroves enhance populations of some species in adjacent habitats. However, there is lack of understanding of the magnitude of stock enhancement and the effects on community structure when both protection from fishing and access to nurseries concurrently act as drivers of fish population dynamics. In this study we test the separate as well as interactive effects of marine reserves and nursery habitat proximity on structure and abundance of coral reef fish communities. Reserves had no effect on fish community composition, while proximity to nursery habitat only had a significant effect on community structure of species that use mangroves or seagrass beds as nurseries. In terms of reef fish biomass, proximity to nursery habitat by far outweighed (biomass 249% higher than that in areas with no nursery access) the effects of protection from fishing in reserves (biomass 21% lower than non-reserve areas) for small nursery fish (≤ 25 cm total length). For large-bodied individuals of nursery species (>25 cm total length), an additive effect was present for these two factors, although fish benefited more from fishing protection (203% higher biomass) than from proximity to nurseries (139% higher). The magnitude of elevated biomass for small fish on coral reefs due to proximity to nurseries was such that nursery habitats seem able to overrule the usually positive effects on fish biomass by reef reserves. As a result, conservation of nursery habitats gains importance and more consideration should be given to the ecological processes that occur along nursery-reef boundaries that connect neighboring ecosystems.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 3%
Mexico 3 1%
Japan 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 240 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 56 21%
Researcher 48 18%
Student > Master 39 15%
Student > Bachelor 30 11%
Other 23 9%
Other 33 13%
Unknown 33 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 115 44%
Environmental Science 77 29%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 11 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 2%
Social Sciences 3 1%
Other 10 4%
Unknown 41 16%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 06 November 2021.
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#6,109,554
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#72,832
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#43,049
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Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#1,126
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