Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on the observed density of coral reef fish along coastal habitats of Moorea, French Polynesia DOI Open Access
Frédéric Bertucci, William E. Feeney, Zara‐Louise Cowan

et al.

Regional Environmental Change, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 23(1)

Published: Dec. 22, 2022

Language: Английский

Effects of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on coral reef fishes at eco-tourism sites in Bora-Bora, French Polynesia DOI Creative Commons
David Lecchini, Rohan M. Brooker,

Viliame Waqalevu

et al.

Marine Environmental Research, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 170, P. 105451 - 105451

Published: Aug. 1, 2021

Language: Английский

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No effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on predatory fish abundance in the Caño Island Biological Reserve, Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean DOI
C. Valverde, Marta Cambra, Mario Espinoza

et al.

Regional Studies in Marine Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 104107 - 104107

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Insights from the 2-year-long human confinement experiment in Grand Cayman reveal the resilience of coral reef fish communities DOI Creative Commons

Jack V. Johnson,

Alex Chequer,

Gretchen Goodbody‐Gringley

et al.

Scientific Reports, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(1)

Published: Dec. 9, 2023

Abstract In March 2020, the world went into lockdown to curb spread of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), with immediate impacts on wildlife across ecosystems. The strict 2-year long in Grand Cayman provided an unprecedented opportunity assess how ‘human confinement experiment’ influenced community composition reef fish. Using a suite multivariate statistics, our findings revealed stark increase fish biomass during 2 years lockdown, especially among herbivores, including parrotfish, drastic increases juvenile parrotfishes identified. Additionally, when comparing baseline data from 2018 over three-fold significant mean was observed, clear shift composition. Our provide unique insights resilience communities local anthropogenic stressors are removed for length time. Given functional role herbivores results suggest that reductions human water-based activities have positive implications coral ecosystems and should be considered future management strategies.

Language: Английский

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Coral reef fish resilience and recovery following major environmental disturbances caused by cyclones and coral bleaching: A case study at Lizard Island DOI Creative Commons

Simon A Levy,

Letizia Pessina,

Redouan Bshary

et al.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 27, 2024

Coral reef fish communities can be affected by natural disturbances such as cyclones and coral bleaching. It is not yet understood how long it takes these to recover from extreme events, particularly when they occur repeatedly. To investigate this, we conducted surveys repeatedly between 2011 2022 at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. We focused two sites, Mermaid Cove Northern Horseshoe, both of which were damaged a large-scale bleaching event 2016 2017, well that occurred 2014 2015 (the hit but Horseshoe). Between sites saw decrease total abundance about 68 % across most functional groups (carnivores, corallivores, herbivores, omnivores). Despite showing different decline recovery patterns, showed an improvement majority 2022. The reached similar numbers those documented census data collected before occurred. Our findings provide case study highlighting community resilience vary small local scales, with potential if conditions are favourable over several years.

Language: Английский

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COVID-19 lockdown highlights impact of recreational activities on the behaviour of coral reef fishes DOI Creative Commons
William E. Feeney, Zara‐Louise Cowan, Frédéric Bertucci

et al.

Royal Society Open Science, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 9(11)

Published: Nov. 1, 2022

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to a reduction in human activities and restriction of all but essential movement for much world's population. A large, temporary, increase air water quality followed, there have been several reports animal populations moving into new areas. Extending on long-term monitoring efforts, we examined how coral reef fish were affected by government-mandated lockdown across series Marine Protected Area (MPA) non-Marine (nMPA) sites around Moorea, French Polynesia. During first six-week that Moorea experienced between March May increases (approx. two-fold) both harvested non-harvested fishes observed MPA nMPA inner barrier sites, while no differences outer sites. Interviews with local amateur professional fishers indicated rules regarding boundaries generally some subsistence fishing continued spite lockdown, including within MPAs. As most recreational occur along reef, our data suggest lockdown-induced resulted recolonization these areas fishes, highlighting behaviour space use can rapidly change absence.

Language: Английский

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Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on the observed density of coral reef fish along coastal habitats of Moorea, French Polynesia DOI Open Access
Frédéric Bertucci, William E. Feeney, Zara‐Louise Cowan

et al.

Regional Environmental Change, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 23(1)

Published: Dec. 22, 2022

Language: Английский

Citations

5