Dataset: Counts of Elacatinus gobies on Bahamian reefs with controlled lionfish densities from reef surveys conducted in Eleuthera, Bahamas in 2012 (Lionfish Invasion project)

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.3886.1Version 1 (2013-03-11)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Lead Principal Investigator: Mark Hixon (Oregon State University)

Scientist: Lillian J. Tuttle (Oregon State University)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Ecological Release and Resistance at Sea: Invasion of Atlantic Coral Reefs by Pacific Lionfish (Lionfish Invasion)


Abstract

This dataset includes counts of Elacatinus gobies on Bahamian reefs with controlled lionfish densities from reef surveys conducted in Eleuthera, Bahamas in 2012.

An experiment was conducted on Bahamian reefs (at Eleuthera, Bahamas) in which red lionfish (Pterois volitans) densities were controlled on 8 paired reefs, one reef of the pair having low lionfish density artificially sustained and the other reef of the pair having high lionfish density artificially sustained. Censuses were taken of lionfish and gobies of the genus Elacatinus at each reef.


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