Status update: Philippine reef fish speciesRecently, our lab group published a paper on the current
Status update: Philippine reef fish speciesRecently, our lab group published a paper on the current status of reef fish species diversity in the Philippines, based on field data collected from 2012-2013.Our main findings were that: (1) many places throughout the Philippines were still had a lot of reef fish species, but exhibited low fish abundance and biomass; (2) most reef fish species throughout the country exhibited low abundances and/or restricted distributions; (3) the few species that exhibited high abundance and wide distributions were small-bodied generalists; and (4) most large-bodied, carnivorous (and commercially-important!) species had low abundances and restricted distributions.Read more about the current status of Philippine reef fish on my other, wordier blog! Image source: Kevin of PopSea and the JA Lab GroupReference: Go et al. 2015 -- source link
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