Paul M. Chittaro

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse hypotheses on speciation and dispersal for reef fish from the Indian and Pacific oceans and show how dispersal from a major center of origination can simultaneously account for both large-scale gradients in species richness and the structure of local communities.

TL;DR: Overall reef fish density has been declining significantly for more than a decade, at rates that are consistent across all subregions of the Caribbean basin and in three of six trophic groups, indicating that Caribbean fishes have begun to respond negatively to habitat degradation.

TL;DR: Testing the hypothesis for several Caribbean reef fish species that there is no difference in nursery function among mangrove, seagrass and shallow reef habitat as measured by patterns of juvenile and adult density, assemblage composition, and relative predation rates indicated that although some mangroves and seagRass sites showed characteristics of nursery habitats, this pattern was weak.

TL;DR: The structure of reef fish communities of Tague Bay was explained in large part by the composition of coral and algae communities present, and fish-habitat relationships appeared to be largely independent of the spatial scale examined.

TL;DR: Although otolith microchemistry varied temporally and the analysis was restricted to the grouping of individuals to only one of three sites, mangroves appeared to contribute to reef populations.