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Distinguishing resident from transient species along marine artificial reefs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

Etienne Boisnier ,
Tatsuyuki Sagawa ,
Teruhisa Komatsu  and
Norimasa Takagi
Etienne Boisnier*
Affiliation:
The Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 1-15-1, Minamidai, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, 164-8639, Japan
Tatsuyuki Sagawa
Affiliation:
The Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 1-15-1, Minamidai, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, 164-8639, Japan
Teruhisa Komatsu
Affiliation:
The Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 1-15-1, Minamidai, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, 164-8639, Japan
Norimasa Takagi
Affiliation:
National Research Institute of Fisheries Engineering, Ebidai, Hasaki, Kasima, Ibaraki, 314-0421, Japan
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: E. Boisnier, The Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 1-15-1, Minamidai, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, 164-8639, Japan email: shirokumaori@yahoo.jp
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Abstract

Even if artificial reef studies heavily refer to the distinction between resident and transient species, there is still no widely-shared available method to distinguish objectively these two groups. Such an absence makes any comparison between studies difficult. This study aims to test whether the four objective distinction methods successfully applied to a 21-year-long time-series on fish assemblage in an English estuary may be as successful when applied to marine artificial reefs. For such a purpose, we tested each distinction tool separately with reference to four different artificial reef fish assemblage datasets. Three of them were drawn from the literature. Results indicate that none of these tools, used either individually or collectively, provide an efficient solution to distinguish resident species for the four datasets considered. We suggest that one of the major reasons for this failure may lie in the relative sampling size. Nonetheless, as these four datasets are representative of the datasets generally reported in the literature, tools capable of distinguishing reliably and efficiently resident from transient species along artificial reefs have yet to be developed. However, such a development requires fish residence to be previously and accurately defined by artificial reef scientists and managers.

Keywords

community sub-divisionsdistinction toolsmarine artificial reefsresident speciestransient species
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 90 , Issue 7 , November 2010 , pp. 1297 - 1303
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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