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Impact of global warming and rising CO2 levels on coral reef fishes: what hope for the future?Philip L Munday
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
J Exp Biol 215:3865-73. 2012..Ultimately, it will be the capacity for species to adjust to environmental change over coming decades that will determine the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems...
Ecological mechanisms for coexistence of colour polymorphism in a coral-reef fish: an experimental evaluationPhilip L Munday
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity and School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia
Oecologia 137:519-26. 2003..fuscus and the damselfish with which it was associated, suggests that aggressive mimicry may promote coexistence of P. fuscus colour morphs...
Replenishment of fish populations is threatened by ocean acidificationPhilip L Munday
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:12930-4. 2010..Our results show that additional CO(2) absorbed into the ocean will reduce recruitment success and have far-reaching consequences for the sustainability of fish populations...- Effects of ocean acidification on the early life history of a tropical marine fishPhilip L Munday
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 276:3275-83. 2009.... - Ocean acidification impairs olfactory discrimination and homing ability of a marine fishPhilip L Munday
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:1848-52. 2009..If acidification continues unabated, the impairment of sensory ability will reduce population sustainability of many marine species, with potentially profound consequences for marine diversity... - Cooperative growth regulation in coral-dwelling fishesPhilip L Munday
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Biol Lett 2:355-8. 2006..This demonstrates a remarkable ability of individuals to strategically adjust their body size to suit the local social environment, and reveals a novel mechanism for size-assortative mating... - A social basis for the development of primary males in a sex-changing fishPhilip L Munday
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 273:2845-51. 2006.... - Diversity and flexibility of sex-change strategies in animalsPhilip L Munday
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Trends Ecol Evol 21:89-95. 2006.... - Evidence for sympatric speciation by host shift in the seaPhilip L Munday
Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Curr Biol 14:1498-504. 2004..The fundamental similarity between these fishes and insects is a specialized and intimate relationship with their hosts that makes them ideal candidates for speciation by host shift... - Ocean acidification affects prey detection by a predatory reef fishIngrid L Cripps
School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e22736. 2011..Thus, it is unlikely that the altered behaviour of predators is sufficient to fully compensate for the effects of ocean acidification on prey mortality... - Ocean acidification disrupts the innate ability of fish to detect predator olfactory cuesDanielle L Dixson
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Ecol Lett 13:68-75. 2010.... - Coral reef fish smell leaves to find island homesDanielle L Dixson
School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 275:2831-9. 2008..This previously unrecognized link between coral reefs and island vegetation argues for the integrated management of these pristine tropical habitats... - Fasting or feasting in a fish social hierarchyMarian Y L Wong
School of Marine and Tropical Biology and ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
Curr Biol 18:R372-3. 2008 - The threat of punishment enforces peaceful cooperation and stabilizes queues in a coral-reef fishMarian Y L Wong
School of Marine and Tropical Biology and ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 274:1093-9. 2007..Societal stability is therefore achieved through the effects of punishment and cooperation acting in concert to promote the resolution of conflict over rank between group members... - Counter-gradient variation in respiratory performance of coral reef fishes at elevated temperaturesNaomi M Gardiner
School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
PLoS ONE 5:e13299. 2010.... - Social induction of maturation and sex determination in a coral reef fishJean Paul A Hobbs
School of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 271:2109-14. 2004..This flexibility enables individuals to maximize their reproductive success in an environment where the timing of mate acquisition and the sex of their future partner are unpredictable... - Differing mechanisms underlie sexual size-dimorphism in two populations of a sex-changing fishMark I McCormick
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
PLoS ONE 5:e10616. 2010.... - Thermal sensitivity does not determine acclimation capacity for a tropical reef fishJennifer M Donelson
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
J Anim Ecol 81:1126-31. 2012..Moreover, the thermal metabolic reaction norm does not appear to be a good predictor of long-term acclimation ability... - Concordance between genetic and species diversity in coral reef fishes across the Pacific Ocean biodiversity gradientVanessa Messmer
School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Evolution 66:3902-17. 2012..However, isolation and habitat area, resulting in reduced population size, are likely to be the most influential... - Homing ability of adult cardinalfish is affected by elevated carbon dioxideBrynn M Devine
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
Oecologia 168:269-76. 2012..This study demonstrates that the potential disruption of chemosensory mechanisms in fishes due to rising CO(2) levels in the ocean extend to critical adult behaviours... - Habitat biodiversity as a determinant of fish community structure on coral reefsVanessa Messmer
School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Ecology 92:2285-98. 2011..The loss of particular key coral species is likely to have a disproportionate impact on the biodiversity of associated fish communities... - Specialization in habitat use by coral reef damselfishes and their susceptibility to habitat lossMorgan S Pratchett
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Townsville, Queensland, Q4811, Australia
Ecol Evol 2:2168-80. 2012..Ongoing disturbances to coral reef ecosystems are expected, therefore, to lead to fundamental shifts in the community structure of fish communities where generalists are favored over highly specialist species... - Elevated CO2 affects predator-prey interactions through altered performanceBridie J M Allan
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
PLoS ONE 8:e58520. 2013..This suggests that the dynamics of predator-prey interactions under future CO2 environments will depend on the extent to which the interacting species are affected and can adapt to the adverse effects of elevated CO2... - Coward or braveheart: extreme habitat fidelity through hypoxia tolerance in a coral-dwelling gobyGoran E Nilsson
Department of Biology, University of Oslo, PO Box 1051, Oslo, Norway
J Exp Biol 207:33-9. 2004..To our knowledge, this is the first report of hypoxia tolerance in a teleost fish intimately associated with coral reefs... - Growth trades off with habitat specializationM Julian Caley
Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No 3, Townsville MC, Qld 4810, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 270:S175-7. 2003..Performance trade-offs associated with resource specialization could influence the evolution and maintenance of narrow niche breadth... - Evolutionary biology: sex change and relative body size in animalsPeter M Buston
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93101, USA
Nature 428:1 p following 616; discussion 2 p following 616. 2004..Here we explain why we believe that Allsop and West's claims are not supported by their analysis or by their empirical data... - Aromatase pathway mediates sex change in each directionFrederieke J Kroon
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Tropical Forest Research Centre, PO Box 780, Atherton, QLD 4883, Australia
Proc Biol Sci 272:1399-405. 2005.... - Bi-directional sex change in coral reef fishes from the family Pseudochromidae: an experimental evaluationMatthew L Wittenrich
Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Biological Science, Melbourne, FL, USA
Zoolog Sci 22:797-803. 2005..These results indicate that bi-directional sex change is probably widespread in the family Pseudochromidae and cannot be predicted by the presence or absence of secondary sexual characteristics...