caa a22 4500 445820101 CHVBK 20180317145241.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00338-010-0716-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00338-010-0716-0 Detrimental effects of host anemone bleaching on anemonefish populations [Elektronische Daten] [P. Saenz-Agudelo, G. Jones, S. Thorrold, S. Planes] Coral bleaching and related reef degradation have caused significant declines in the abundance of reef-associated fishes. Most attention on the effects of bleaching has focused on corals, but bleaching is also prevalent in other cnidarians, including sea anemones. The consequences of anemone bleaching are unknown, and the demographic effects of bleaching on associated fish recruitment, survival, and reproduction are poorly understood. We examined the effect of habitat degradation including host anemone bleaching on fish abundance, egg production, and recruitment of the panda anemonefish (Amphiprion polymnus) near Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Following a high-temperature anomaly in shallow waters of the region, most shallow anemones to a depth of 6m (approximately 35% of all the anemones in this area) were severely bleached. Anemone mortality was low but bleached anemones underwent a ~34% reduction in body size. Total numbers of A. polymnus were not affected by bleaching and reduction in shelter area. While egg production of females living in bleached anemones was reduced by ~38% in 2009 compared to 2008, egg production of females on unbleached anemones did not differ significantly between years. Total recruitment in 2009 was much lower than in 2008. However, we found no evidence of recruiting larvae avoiding bleached anemones at settlement suggesting that other factors or different chemical cues were more important in determining recruitment than habitat quality. These results provide the first field evidence of detrimental effects of climate-induced bleaching and habitat degradation on reproduction and recruitment of anemonefish. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Anemonefish nationallicence Climate change nationallicence Anemone bleaching nationallicence Egg production nationallicence Settlement nationallicence Coral reefs nationallicence Saenz-Agudelo P. USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE, CRIOBE, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerrannéenne, Université de Perpignan, 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France aut Jones G. School of Marine and Tropical Biology, and ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, 4811, Townsville, QLD, Australia aut Thorrold S. Biology Department MS # 50, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 02543, Woods Hole, MA, USA aut Planes S. USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE, CRIOBE, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerrannéenne, Université de Perpignan, 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France aut Coral Reefs Springer-Verlag 30/2(2011-06-01), 497-506 0722-4028 30:2<497 2011 30 338 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-010-0716-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-010-0716-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Saenz-Agudelo P. USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE, CRIOBE, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerrannéenne, Université de Perpignan, 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jones G. School of Marine and Tropical Biology, and ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, 4811, Townsville, QLD, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thorrold S. Biology Department MS # 50, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 02543, Woods Hole, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Planes S. USR 3278 CNRS-EPHE, CRIOBE, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerrannéenne, Université de Perpignan, 66860, Perpignan Cedex, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Coral Reefs Springer-Verlag 30/2(2011-06-01), 497-506 0722-4028 30:2<497 2011 30 338 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer