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    Linking habitat mosaics and connectivity in a coral reef seascape

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    2012-06
    Author
    McMahon, Kelton W.  Concept link
    Berumen, Michael L.  Concept link
    Thorrold, Simon R.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5400
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206378109
    Keyword
     Amino acids; Lutjanus ehrenbergii; Mangroves and seagrass; Otoliths; Red Sea 
    Abstract
    Tropical marine ecosystems are under mounting anthropogenic pressure from overfishing and habitat destruction, leading to declines in their structure and function on a global scale. While maintaining connectivity among habitats within a seascape is necessary for preserving population resistance and resilience, quantifying movements of individuals within seascapes remains challenging. Traditional methods of identifying and valuing potential coral reef fish nursery habitats are indirect, often relying on visual surveys of abundance and correlations of size and biomass among habitats. We used compound-specific stable isotope analyses to determine movement patterns of commercially important fish populations within a coral reef seascape. This approach allowed us to quantify the relative contributions of individuals from inshore nurseries to reef populations and identify migration corridors among important habitats. Our results provided direct measurements of remarkable migrations by juvenile snapper of over 30 km between nurseries and reefs. We also found significant plasticity in juvenile nursery residency. While a majority of individuals on coastal reefs had used seagrass nurseries as juveniles, many adults on oceanic reefs had settled directly into reef habitats. Moreover, seascape configuration played a critical but heretofore unrecognized role in determining connectivity among habitats. Finally, our approach provides key quantitative data necessary to estimate the value of distinctive habitats to ecosystem services provided by seascapes.
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    Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of National Academy of Sciences for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (2012): 15372-15376, doi:10.1073/pnas.1206378109.
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    Preprint: McMahon, Kelton W., Berumen, Michael L., Thorrold, Simon R., "Linking habitat mosaics and connectivity in a coral reef seascape", 2012-06, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206378109, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5400
     
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