Data from: Context is more important than habitat type in determining use by juvenile fish

This data set contains data on fishes from a range of different habitat types in the Hinchinbrook/Palm Islands region of the Great Barrier Reef coast, including mangrove, seagrass and rocky reef and soft sediment habitats.

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    Data Publication title Data from: Context is more important than habitat type in determining use by juvenile fish
  • Description

    This data set contains data on fishes from a range of different habitat types in the Hinchinbrook/Palm Islands region of the Great Barrier Reef coast, including mangrove, seagrass and rocky reef and soft sediment habitats.

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      The use of a habitat structure, such as mangroves or seagrass, by fauna such as fish, may depend on the environmental context of that structure. The aim of this study was to examine the interplay of habitat characteristics and environmental context in driving the use of coastal areas by juvenile fish. The relative importance of these different factors have wide implications for the management of coastal areas. 

      Remote underwater video surveys were carried out throughout the Hinchinbrook/Palms region of the Great Barrier Reef coast, in order to capture the full range of variability in habitat use by juvenile fish. Each sample consists of one independent 15 minute video survey, providing a low-disturbance snapshot representation of the juvenile fish assemblage in a location, along with details of habitat characteristics and whether the sample was in an estuarine or marine environmental context.

      Please refer to the methods section of the manuscript for detailed descriptions of video data collection and processing.

      This data archive includes: 

      • The data used in presence/absence analysis to generate Figure 2 - Raw_data_PA
      • The data used in multivariate assemblage analysis to generate Figure 3a, which excluded all taxa that occurred in <3% of samples -  Raw_data_MV_3percent
      • The data used in multivariate assemblage analysis to validate the tree structure used in Figure 3a, which excluded all taxa that occurred in <5% of samples -  Raw_data_MV_5percent
      • The data used in multivariate assemblage analysis to validate the tree structure used in Figure 3a, which excluded all taxa that occurred in <10% of samples -  Raw_data_MV_10percent
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  • Data type dataset
  • Keywords
    • habitat
    • function
    • nursery role
    • ecological context
    • environmental setting
    • coastal ecosystem
    • juvenile fish
    • underwater video
  • Funding source
    • Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
    • Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
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  • Research themes
    Tropical Ecosystems, Conservation and Climate Change
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  • Start Date 2012/11/01
  • End Date 2015/12/31
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  • Locations
    • Hinchinbrook Island coastal region, Queensland, Australia
    • Palm Island coastal region, Queensland, Australia
    Data Locations

    Type Location Notes
    Attachment Raw_data_MV_taxa_5_percent.csv The data used in multivariate assemblage analysis to validate the tree structure used in Figure 3a, which excluded all taxa that occurred in <5% of samples - Raw_data_MV_5percent
    Attachment Raw_data_MV_3%.csv The data used in multivariate assemblage analysis to generate Figure 3a, which excluded all taxa that occurred in <3% of samples - Raw_data_MV_3%
    Attachment Raw_data_MV_taxa_3_percent.csv The data used in multivariate assemblage analysis to generate Figure 3a, which excluded all taxa that occurred in <3% of samples - Raw_data_MV_3percent
    Attachment Raw_data_MV_taxa_10_percent.csv The data used in multivariate assemblage analysis to validate the tree structure used in Figure 3a, which excluded all taxa that occurred in <10% of samples - Raw_data_MV_10percent
    Attachment Raw_data_PA.csv The data used in presence/absence analysis to generate Figure 2 - Raw_data_PA
    The Data Manager is: Michael Bradley
    College or Centre
    Access conditions Open: free access under license
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  • Data record size 95 KB
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      Name Bradley, Michael, Baker, Ronald, Nagelkerken, Ivan, and Sheaves, Marcus (2019) Context is more important than habitat type in determining use by juvenile fish. Landscape Ecology, 34 (2). pp. 427-442.
    • URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00781-3
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    Citation Bradley, Michael (2019): Data from: Context is more important than habitat type in determining use by juvenile fish. James Cook University. https://doi.org/10.25903/5c3d33ace91f3