Ecological Archives E085-094-A1

Glenn R. Almany and Michael S. Webster. 2004. Odd species out as predators reduce diversity of coral reef fishes. Ecology 85:2933–2937.

Appendix A (Table A1). Rank abundances of prey species that recruited to experimental reefs in Australia and the Bahamas.

Rank abundances of prey species that recruited to experimental reefs in Australia and the Bahamas. The most abundant species at each location is ranked "1" and higher ranks represent increasingly rare species. Ranks in this table correspond to species codes in Fig. 2 (A and B) and Fig. 3 (A and B) in the manuscript.

Rank Abundance

Australian Species

Bahamian Species

1

Pomacentrus amboinensis

Stegastes leucostictus

2

Pomacentrus nagasakiensis

Thalassoma bifasciatum

3

Neopomacentrus cyanomos

Stegastes partitus

4

Acanthurus sp.

Acanthurus coeruleus

5

Chaetodon ephippium

Halichoeres pictus

6

Hemiglyphidodon plagiometopon

Stegastes diencaesus

7

Siganus sp.

Halichoeres garnoti

8

Neopomacentrus azysron

Acanthurus bahianus

9

Pomacentrus pavo

Holacanthus tricolor

10

Dischistodus perspicillatus

Chaetodon ocellatus

11

Chaetodon auriga

Pomacanthus arcuatus

12

Pomacentrus wardi

Acanthurus chirurgus

13

Chaetodon lunula

Stegastes variabilis

14

Dascyllus aruanus

Chaetodon capistratus

15

Pomacentrus moluccensis

Microspathodon chrysurus

16

Dischistodus prosopotaenia

 

17

Heniochus acuminatus

 

18

Chaetodon ulietensis

 

19

Dascyllus trimaculatus

 

20

Chaetodon melannotus

 



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