Edit the description's bibliography (Lizard Island Field Guide)

Edit the description's bibliography


Animalia: Dusky Dottyback (species: Pseudochromis fuscus)

References that assist with identification

  • Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen and R.C. Steene (1990). Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Other references

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  • Heenan, A. (2010). The behaviour of settling coral reef fishes and supplementary management tools, Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh. LIRS catalog number 1311.
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  • Holmes, T.H. and M.I. McCormick (2006). Location influences size-selective predation on newly settled reef fish, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 317: 203-209. LIRS catalog number 964.
  • Holmes, T.H. and M.I. McCormick (2009). Influence of prey body characteristics and performance on predator selection, Oecologia, 159: 401-413. LIRS catalog number 1263.
  • Holmes, T.H. and M.I. McCormick (2010). Response across a gradient: behavioural reactions of newly settled fish to predation cues, Animal Behaviour, doi: 101016janbehav201011019. LIRS catalog number 1385.
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  • Holmes, T.H. and M.I. McCormick (2010). Smell, learn and live: The role of chemical alarm cues in predator learning during early life history in a marine fish, Behavioural Processes, 83: 299-305. LIRS catalog number 1364.
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  • Lassig, B.R. (1983). The effects of a cyclonic storm on coral reef assemblages, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 9(1): 55-63. LIRS catalog number 253.
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  • Lonnstedt, O.M., M.I. McCormick and D.P. Chivers (2011). Well-informed foraging: damage-released chemical cues of injured prey signal quality and size to predators. Oecologia, doi: 10.1007/s00442-011-2116-8. LIRS catalog number 1439.
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  • Lonnstedt, O.M., M.I. McCormick and D.P. Chivers (2013). Degraded environments alter prey risk assessment, Ecology and Evolution, 3(1): 38-47. LIRS catalog number 1849.
  • Lonnstedt, O.M., M.I. McCormick and D.P. Chivers (2013). Predator-induced changes in the growth of eyes and false eyespots. Scientific Reports, 3, DOI: 10.1038/srep02259. LIRS catalog number 1728.
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  • Lonnstedt†, O.M. and M.I. McCormick (2015). Damsel in distress: captured damselfish prey emit chemical cues that attract secondary predators and improve escape chances, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20152038. LIRS catalog number 1939.
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  • Manassa, R.P. and M.I. McCormick (2012). Social learning improves survivorship at a life-history transition. Oecologia, doi 10.1007/s00442-012-2458-x. LIRS catalog number 1556.
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  • McCormick, M.I. and M.G. Meekan (2007). Social facilitation of selective mortality, Ecology, 88: 1562-1570. LIRS catalog number 1384.
  • McCormick, M.I. and M.G. Meekan (2010). The importance of attitude: the influence of behaviour on survival at an ontogenetic boundary, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 407: 173-185. LIRS catalog number 1365.
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  • Simpson, S.D., A.N. Radford, S. Holles, M.C.O. Ferarri, D.P. Chivers, M.I. McCormick and M.G. Meekan (2016). Small-boat noise impacts natural settlement behavior of coral reef fish larvae. in: The effects of noise on aquatic life II. Popper, A.N. and A. Hawkins (Eds.). Springer Science and Business Media, New York. LIRS catalog number 2013.
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  • Smit, N.J., A.S. Grutter, R.D. Adlard and A.J. Davies (2006). Hematozoa of teleosts from Lizard Island, Australia, with some comments on their possible mode of transmission and the description of a new hemogregarine species, Journal of Parasitology, 92: 778-788. LIRS catalog number 991.
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  • Stewart, B.D. and J.S. Beukers (2000). Baited technique improves censuses of cryptic fish in complex habitats, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 197: 259-272. LIRS catalog number 667.
  • Stewart, B.D. and G.P. Jones (2001). Associations between the abundance of piscivorous fishes and their prey on coral reefs: implications for prey-fish mortality, Marine Biology, 138(2): 383-397. LIRS catalog number 670.
  • Sweatman, H. (1985). The timing of settlement by larval Dascyllus aruanus: some consequences for larval habitat selection, "Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress".5,Tahiti, : 367-371. LIRS catalog number 188.
  • Syms, C. (1998). Habitat association, disturbance dynamics, and the role of spatial scale in structuring coral reef fish assemblages, Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 533.
  • Syms, C. and G.P. Jones (2000). Disturbance, habitat structure, and the dynamics of a coral-reef fish community, Ecology, 81(10): 2714-2729. LIRS catalog number 669.
  • Syms, C. and G.P. Jones (2001). Soft corals exert no direct effects on coral reef fish assemblages, Oecologia, 127: 560-571. LIRS catalog number 655.
  • Webster, M.S. (2002). Role of predators in the early post-settlement demography of coral-reef fishes, Oecologia, 131: 52-60. LIRS catalog number 731.
  • Webster, M.S. and G.R. Almany (2002). Positive indirect effects in a coral reef fish community, Ecology Letters, 5: 549-557. LIRS catalog number 741.