Reef fish diversity and managementOur lab group recently published a paper on the patterns of Philip
Reef fish diversity and managementOur lab group recently published a paper on the patterns of Philippine reef fish assemblages, and its implications towards management. We found that surveyed reef sites may hold a number of rare or restricted-ranged species, but were mostly dominated by a few highly abundant species. In addition, most of these dominant species were small-bodied fishes (unlike the school of large-bodied bigeye trevally (Caranx sexfasciatus) you see in the photo above; a rare sight in our surveyed reefs)—an indication of the intense fishing pressure (which typically targets and depletes populations of large-bodied fishes) throughout most coastal areas of the country. Read more about Philippine reef fish assemblages and their management implications on my other, wordier blog!Image source: Kevin of PopSea and the JA Lab GroupReference: Anticamara et al. 2015 -- source link
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