Herbivorous Reef Fish Interaction with the Habitat and Physicochemical Variables in Coral Ecosystems in the Mexican Tropical Pacific
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data
2.2.1. Herbivorous Fish Species and Traits
2.2.2. Habitat Benthic Components
2.2.3. Physicochemical Variables
2.3. Statistical Analyses
2.3.1. Differences between Insular Systems and Temporal Variability of Herbivorous Reef Fish
2.3.2. Link between Herbivorous Fish–Habitat–Physicochemical Variables
2.3.3. Relationship between Herbivorous Reef Fish Traits and Habitat
3. Results
3.1. Island Comparison (Marietas vs. Cleofas)
3.2. Temporal Analyses
4. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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PERMANOVA Overall Test | CV (%) | PERMDISP Test | ||||||
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Source | Pseudo-F | pPerm | F | pPerm | ||||
Insular systems - df | ||||||||
Island (Is) - 1 | 100.880 | <0.001 | 52.601 | 24.789 | <0.001 | |||
Residual - 178 | 47.399 | |||||||
Temporal differences - df | ||||||||
Year (Yr) - 5 | 2.459 | 0.009 | 2.264 | 0.500 | 0.819 | |||
Period (Pr) - 1 | 8.020 | 0.001 | 3.632 | 1.030 | 0.329 | |||
Yr × Pr - 5 | 1.316 | 0.228 | 0.981 | 0.643 | 0.877 | |||
Residual – 348 | 93.124 | |||||||
Pairwise among years (pPerm) | ||||||||
2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | |||
Pairwise among years (t) | 2013 | 0.114 | 0.220 | 0.344 | 0.008 | 0.007 | ||
2014 | 1.44 | 0.167 | 0.466 | 0.019 | 0.029 | |||
2015 | 1.24 | 1.35 | 0.460 | 0.115 | 0.241 | |||
2016 | 1.04 | 0.90 | 0.90 | 0.063 | 0.099 | |||
2017 | 2.17 | 1.99 | 1.51 | 1.70 | 0.130 | |||
2018 | 2.32 | 1.94 | 1.22 | 1.54 | 1.49 |
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Morales-de-Anda, D.; Cupul-Magaña, A.L.; Aguilar-Betancourt, C.M.; González-Sansón, G.; Rodríguez-Zaragoza, F.A.; Rodríguez-Troncoso, A.P. Herbivorous Reef Fish Interaction with the Habitat and Physicochemical Variables in Coral Ecosystems in the Mexican Tropical Pacific. Oceans 2024, 5, 21-37. https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans5010002
Morales-de-Anda D, Cupul-Magaña AL, Aguilar-Betancourt CM, González-Sansón G, Rodríguez-Zaragoza FA, Rodríguez-Troncoso AP. Herbivorous Reef Fish Interaction with the Habitat and Physicochemical Variables in Coral Ecosystems in the Mexican Tropical Pacific. Oceans. 2024; 5(1):21-37. https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans5010002
Chicago/Turabian StyleMorales-de-Anda, Diana, Amílcar Leví Cupul-Magaña, Consuelo María Aguilar-Betancourt, Gaspar González-Sansón, Fabián Alejandro Rodríguez-Zaragoza, and Alma Paola Rodríguez-Troncoso. 2024. "Herbivorous Reef Fish Interaction with the Habitat and Physicochemical Variables in Coral Ecosystems in the Mexican Tropical Pacific" Oceans 5, no. 1: 21-37. https://doi.org/10.3390/oceans5010002