Sentences with word «damselfish»

In damselfish exposed to CO2 levels projected for 2100, this activity pattern stopped after the flashing rate reached 79 times per second.

Dusky damselfish, rock beauties, french angelfish, hogfish, spiny lobster and hermit crabs wait to have their portraits taken.

Threespot Damselfish populations have exploded in recent years due to overfishing of predatory fish such as groupers and snappers.

The researchers found evidence that this also might occur with blue - green damselfish, and they stressed the need to investigate more fish species, including commercial fish species that economies rely upon.

A study from scientists at James Cook University shows increased carbon dioxide levels impaired the senses of spiny damselfish, which live in the Great Barrier Reef.

Different species of it mixed with hard ones and gorgonians that host a wide variety of reef fishes, like damselfishes, anthias, wrasses, etc..

«Damselfish populations appear to have grown recently as their predators have been overfished, which is one plausible explanation as to why long - spined urchin populations have failed to recover.»

Creole wrasse Stoplight parrotfish Bicolor damselfish French grunt Sergeant major Fairy basslet

Damselfish exposed to high levels of carbon dioxide have difficulty discerning rapid light flickers

The action of damselfish swimming between coral branches helps the algae inside corals to increase their photosynthesis

The researchers re-examined five studies that showed such changes and found that in soil mites and damselfish clutches of eggs had actually become more varied, with both larger and smaller eggs (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rstb.2008.0237).

But he's had dangerous encounters, too, including one in the Galápagos while he was investigating geographical variations among damselfish.

As a result, with increasing distance from refugia, species diversity in damselfish falls significantly faster than for the other two families.

And it turns out acidic seawater also makes clownfish and damselfish suicidally bold and reckless, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«Predator numbers were severely depleted in heavily fished areas, while smaller prey fish such as damselfish, and herbivores such as parrotfish, had increased greatly in number having been released from predation.»

«We collected wild damselfish with or without access to cleaner wrasse and tested their ability to solve a feeding test in the lab.»

Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, Australia, have been studying the effect of carbon dioxide on the schooling behaviour of the tropical damselfish Chromis viridis.

Previously - common fish species in the area like the black - and - white striped humbug damselfish and green chromis had almost «completely» disappeared, said Marshall.

Norwgian researchers made a surprising discovery when they followed the mating habits of damselfish on the Great Barrier Reef.

Coral reef - dwelling fish like the orange clownfish — star of Finding Nemo — and seven colorful damselfish are imperiled by ocean acidification and warming.

Larval brooding in the marine damselfish Acanthochromis polyacanthus (Pomacentridae) is correlated with highly divergent morphology, ontogeny, and life - history traits.

Larval development of Pomacentrus amboinensis (Perciformes: Pomacentridae), the Ambon damselfish.

Look for the orange Garibaldi damselfish, kelp bass and the swell shark!

Under the surface of the waves, you'll find a veritable aquarium: king angelfish, cortez sea chubs, giant damselfish, rainbow wrasse, octopus, pufferfish and sea cucumbers.

Beneath the waves curious animals such as Australian weedy sea dragons, garibaldi damselfish and Japanese spider crabs hang among rocky ledges and kelp forests.

Sergeant major and yellowtail damselfish dart in and out of the star, brain and staghorn corals.

Blue goldbelly damselfish dance in the bright shallow water, and pairs of speckled angelfish make way for you as you continue your descent.

Additional Information This species of damselfish inhabits the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California to Baja California along rocky coastal reefs and among kelp forests.

Smaller delights include clownfish, nudibranchs, long - nose hawkfish, pyramid butterflyfish, blackspot angelfish and fairy basslets and damselfish particularly near the tip.

The first time you dive in the subtropical waters around Gran Canaria you will be amazed not only by the huge shoals of fish but also the variety of colours and species, from minute hermit crabs and vivid damselfish up to intriguing but critically endangered species including angel sharks.

On an underwater expedition here you can look for damselfish, moray eels, and angelfish.

Shallow lagoons are rich in coral growth, with spectacular and diverse marine life including damselfish, triggerfish, giant clams, parrotfish, unicornfish, black - tip sharks and hammerhead sharks.

Instead, the fishermen are acting after watching environmental conservation groups petition to add many more species to the endangered list in recent years, like dozens of corals, seven different damselfish and a rare dolphin called a false killer whale, said Philip Fernandez, the coalition's president.

Here we find harlequin bass, trumpet fish, french grunts, dusky damselfish, pork fish, blue chromis, schoolmasters, stoplight parrotfish and squirrelfish darting among the coral cover with many other types of majestic marine life.

A new study suggests that an aggressive reef competitor — the Threespot Damselfish — may have impeded the recovery of Caribbean long - spined sea urchin populations after a mysterious disease outbreak caused a massive die - off of these animals over three decades ago.

In experiments using a fish found in coral reefs around the world, the blue - green damselfish, Chromis viridis, researchers found that the fish were capable of adapting to living in water 2 - 4 degrees Celsius above their normal summer temperatures; however, when given the slightest chance, the fish moved to cooler water.

So researchers turned to the spiny damselfish (Acanthochromis polyacanthus, pictured) a common ocean - dwelling fish that's easy to breed for lab study.

The fame of this dive site comes from the density and diversity of the hard coral growth that populates its shallow waters, offering shelter for a considerable quantity of smaller fishes, like damselfishes, parrotfishes, wrasses, anthians and more.

Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science used a computer model developed by UM Rosenstiel School scientist Claire Paris, known as the Connectivity Modeling System to track larval movements of three distinct reef species — the Carribean sea plume (Anthiellogorgia elisebeathae), the bicolor damselfish (Stegastes partitus) and the Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus).

Hiding among the rocks off the coast of Papua New Guinea, this crocodilefish proved dangerous when it lunged directly at the camera lens in pursuit of a blue chromis, a type of damselfish.

Sensory and skeletal development and growth in relation to the duration of the embryonic and larval stages in damselfishes (Pomacentridae).

Damselfish had trouble sniffing out survival clues by their fellows in damaged coral.

Damselfish are less effective colonizers than butterflyfish and wrasse.

Damselfish had trouble learning to avoid predators, when that lesson was accompanied by a soundtrack of buzzing boat engines.

«These damselfish pick up urchins and move them off the coral with their mouths,» said Cramer, a postdoctoral scholar at Scripps and lead author of the study.

They theorized that this is due to the aggressive territorial activities of the Threespot Damselfish, a competitor of the long - spined urchin that takes refuge in the coral.

Blue - green damselfish have a very small range, unable to go more than 60 feet in radius from their coral reef home.

We already knew that the damselfish (Dascyllus marginatus) lives in symbiosis with the coral Stylophora pistillata.