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Christopher J. Fulton
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Interactive effects of sediments and urchins on the composition and structure of tropical macroalgal assemblages
Macroalgal-dominated reefs are a prominent component of tropical seascapes providing food and shelter for many species whilst subsidising secondary productivity in coastal ecosystems. Monitoring and managing m...
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A Seasonally Dynamic Estuarine Ecosystem Provides a Diverse Prey Base for Elasmobranchs
Tropical river and estuarine food webs sustain diverse biodiversity values and are important sources of nutrients and energy for connected aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. High-order predators, such as eury...
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Habitat connectivity and complexity underpin fish community structure across a seascape of tropical macroalgae meadows
In heterogeneous landscapes, local patterns of community structure are a product of the habitat size and condition within a patch interacting with adjacent habitat patches of varying composition and quantity. ...
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Efficacy of remote underwater video cameras for monitoring tropical wetland fishes
Remote underwater video (RUV) cameras are commonly used in marine environments to sample fish, but to date have infrequently been used in freshwater environments. We tested the utility of a range of underwater...
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Importance of soft canopy structure for labrid fish communities in estuarine mesohabitats
Hard structural complexity is widely recognised as important for assessing fish habitat quality, but our understanding of the importance of soft habitat microstructure for temperate marine fishes is less devel...
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Refining the invertivore: diversity and specialisation in fish predation on coral reef crustaceans
Crustaceans are one of the most influential groups in aquatic trophic networks by providing a major connection between primary production and higher consumers. Although coral reefs support a high diversity an...
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Status-dependent foraging behaviour in coral reef wrasses
Field observations using underwater video were used to reveal differences in the duration and frequency that fish engaged in daily behaviours such as chasing, searching, feeding, and travelling, according to t...
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Foraging in corallivorous butterflyfish varies with wave exposure
Understanding the foraging patterns of reef fishes is crucial for determining patterns of resource use and the sensitivity of species to environmental change. While changes in prey availability and interspecif...
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Localised intraspecific variation in the swimming phenotype of a coral reef fish across different wave exposures
Wave-driven water flow is a major force structuring marine communities. Species distributions are partly determined by the ability to cope with variation in water flow, such as differences in the assemblage of...
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Behavioural flexibility in reef fishes responding to a rapidly changing wave environment
Flexible traits can be crucial in hel** animals meet the challenges of a highly variable environment. We examined whether coral reef fishes systematically alter their swimming behaviour in response to tempor...
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Exposing local adaptation: synergistic stressors elicit population-specific lactate dehydrogenase-B (ldh-b) expression profiles in Australian barramundi, Lates calcarifer
The molecular response of fish to independently and/or concurrently applied ecological stressors (e.g. thermal and/or aerobic stress) can be quantified at the level of transcript abundance (i.e. gene expressio...
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Life history patterns shape energy allocation among fishes on coral reefs
Although critically important, the link between animal life histories and ecosystem energetics is seldom explored. In the pursuit of ecological simplification, ecosystem properties are typically described by m...
