ArticleEcology and evolution2019
Protection from illegal fishing and shark recovery restructures mesopredatory fish communities on a coral reef.
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- Marine predator movements create seascape connectivity in remote coral reef ecosystems.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- The Sharklogger Network-monitoring Cayman Islands shark populations through an innovative citizen science program.PloS one · 2025Article
- Depth and benthic habitat influence shallow and mesophotic predatory fishes on a remote, high-latitude coral reef.PloS one · 2022Article
- Isolated reefs support stable fish communities with high abundances of regionally fished species.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Monitoring elasmobranch assemblages in a data-poor country from the Eastern Tropical Pacific using baited remote underwater video stations.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The complete mitochondrial genome of a gray reef shark,Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2020Article
- Protection from illegal fishing and shark recovery restructures mesopredatory fish communities on a coral reef.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
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Abstract
The recovery of communities of predatory fishes within a no-take marine reserve after the eradication of illegal fishing provides an opportunity to examine the role of sharks and other large-bodied mesopredatory fishes in structuring reef fish communities. We used baited remote underwater video stations to investigate whether an increase in sharks was associated with a change in structure of the mesopredatory fish community at Ashmore Reef, Western Australia. We found an almost fourfold increase in shark abundance in reef habitat from 0.64 hr
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