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TI The impacts of short-term temporal factors on the magnitude and direction of marine protected area effects detected in reef fish monitoring
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AF Powell, Abigail
   Pelletier, Dominique
   Jones, Timothy
   Mallet, Delphine
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:1;
FF 1:PDG-RBE-LEADNC;2:PDG-RBE-LEADNC;3:;4:PDG-RBE-LEADNC;
C1 IFREMER, Unité de recherche Lagons, écosystèmes et aquaculture durable de Nouvelle Calédonie, 101 Promenade Roger Laroque, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie
   COASST, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, 1122 NE Boat Street, Seattle, USA
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV WASHINGTON, USA
SI NOUMEA
SE PDG-RBE-LEADNC
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   DOAJ
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 2.174
TC 7
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00358/46964/46878.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00358/46964/46879.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Monitoring;Marine protected areas;Temporal variability;Coral reef fish
AB Marine protected areas (MPA) and in particular no-take marine reserves have been identified as important tools for the conservation of reef fish and habitats. A significant challenge of reef fish monitoring is to determine the influence of temporal factors on fish counts. Fish assemblages are dynamic and changes in activity patterns throughout the day can influence the results of surveys. While many monitoring programs account for the impacts of spatial heterogeneity on fish assemblages the effects of short-term temporal variation are less well known. In the present study, we analysed data from 197 video drops inside and outside New Caledonian MPAs and examined temporal variations in various metrics commonly used to monitor marine reserves. In addition to describing short-term temporal patterns related to time of day, tide height and state, and lunar cycle; we also examined the influence of these temporal factors on the size and direction of any MPA effects detected. Fewer Serranidae were observed at full moon than the rest of the lunar cycle and there were negative correlations between Chaetodontidae and Acanthuridae abundance and tide height. We did not find any consistent effects of time of day. Generally, variation in short term temporal factors did not affect the direction MPA effects detected but did affect the size of the effects for some metrics. For both small fish abundance and species richness, bigger differences between protected and unprotected sites were detected at high tide than low tide. These results highlight how survey results can vary with timing of sampling and have implications for developing optimal monitoring programs.
PY 2016
PD OCT
SO Global Ecology and Conservation
SN 2351-9894
PU Elsevier BV
VL 8
UT 000413277200026
BP 263
EP 276
DI 10.1016/j.gecco.2016.09.006
ID 46964
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