Journal article
An analysis of fish community responses to coral mining in the Maldives
Environmental Biology of Fishes, Vol.33(4), pp.367-380
1992
Abstract
Coral mining takes place on shallow reef flats at a number of localities in the Maldives, but not on the adjacent deeper reef slopes. A semi-quantitative census method for fish species abundance and biomass is described. Fish community structure is compared on mined and non-mined reef flats and their adjacent slopes using a variety of univariate, graphical/distributional and multivariate statistical techniques. In general, univariate and graphical distributional methods do not indicate significant differences between mined and non-mined localities with respect to the relative abundances and biomasses of species. Multivariate methods (both classification and ordination), however, indicate very clear-cut effects of mining on the reef flats, and also significant effects on reef slopes adjacent to mined flats. The effect was equally clear using non-quantitative (presence/absence) data. The fish species mainly responsible for the differences between mined and non-mined localities are identified, and the differences are explained in terms of the feeding biology of these species.
Details
- Title
- An analysis of fish community responses to coral mining in the Maldives
- Authors/Creators
- A.R. Dawson Shepherd (Author/Creator)R.M. Warwick (Author/Creator)K.R. Clarke (Author/Creator)B.E. Brown (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Environmental Biology of Fishes, Vol.33(4), pp.367-380
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Identifiers
- 991005545414007891
- Copyright
- © 1992 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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