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2000-2015
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"Short-term Effects of a Mass Coral Bleaching Event on a Reef Fish Assemblage at Iriomote Island, Japan."
The journal goes over the effects of a mass coral bleaching in Ryukyu Islands, which is located in southern Japan, in 1998. Using this event, a study was formed to document the effects of how ecosystems respond to the rapid loss of coral. The study uses a fish monitoring program of the area before and after the event to gather the information needed to find the effects on loss of the coral to the ecosystem. Sano shows that the number of fish in the healthy/currently bleaching areas had much lar -
"Lag Effects in the Impacts of Mass Coral Bleaching on Coral Reef Fish, Fisheries, and Ecosystems."
This Journal uses several different sites within the inner granitic islands in Seychelles, the site that was most effected by the 1998 bleaching event. The method used to conduct this research was to count the amount and type of fish, using random selection sites, in each area. After doing this, they would go back to investigate the composition and complexity of the coral in each area. Fish species that were targeted by local fisheries were sorted into three groups being primary, important, and -
"Spatial Variability in Habitat Structure and Heterogenic Coral Reef Fish Assemblages inside a Small-scale Marine Reserve after a Coral Mass Mortality Event."
Using the inner granitic islands in Seychelles, this article attempts to explore the effects of the worldwide coral bleaching event that went on in 1998 using small areas of focus. The focus is to determine how coral habitat quality effects fish populations within the reefs. Areas with low coral cover are shown to have a dramatically less amount of fish than those with high coral cover. The article concludes that after large-scale destruction of a coral reef it will take a non-linear pattern whe -
"Simplification of Caribbean Reef-Fish Assemblages over Decades of Coral Reef Degradation.
With the ever impending simplification of the Caribbean coral reefs due to destruction by humans, this article examines the consequences to reef fishes. This Journal uses a database made by Paddack, which contained surveys that showed quantitative data. The focus was to compare the numbers of specialized and generalized niched fish. Since specialized fish are more dependent on the reefs, the number would decrease due to the destruction rather than generalized fish which have less dependencies on