Project: RAPID: Mega-typhoon impacts on the metapopulation resilience of coral reef fishes

Acronym/Short Name:Reef Fish Resilience
Project Duration:2014-03 - 2016-02
Geolocation:West coast of Leyte Island, Visayas, Philippines

Description

Description from NSF award abstract:
When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines it had sustained winds of 305 to 315 kph and was the strongest storm ever to make landfall. Storms are one of the most important disturbances to coral reef ecosystems. Previous research has primarily emphasized that habitat recovery is important for the recovery of reef fish communities after disturbance. We understand little, however, about the role of larval dispersal in mediating species responses to disturbance. Reef fish function as metapopulations connected by larval dispersal among reefs, and larval connectivity is therefore a critical process for their dynamics. A field site directly in Typhoon Haiyan's path provides an ideal opportunity to address the role of larval dispersal during recovery. Over the course of four field seasons (2008 to 2013), nearly two thousand clownfish were surveyed along 20km of coastline. Clownfish possess the same basic life history as most reef fish (sedentary adults and pelagic larvae), but are sufficiently rare and visible that genetic parentage methods can be used to follow larval dispersal. This study site is therefore a unique location in which to understand the metapopulation impacts of a massive storm. This project will focus on three hypotheses: 1) Habitat destruction determines the short-term impacts of storms disturbance, 2) Metapopulation processes shape recolonization after disturbance, and 3) Disturbance allows rare competitors to increase in abundance. The project will address these questions with a combination of fixed and random transects to assess reef habitat and reef fish abundance and diversity, as well as detailed, spatially explicit surveys of anemones and clownfish. Genetic mark-recapture and parentage methods with yellowtail clownfish will pinpoint the origin of new recruits that recolonize the reef post-typhoon.


DatasetLatest Version DateCurrent State
Temperature loggers (HOBO) placed in two locations off the coast of the West coast of Leyte, the Philippines , 2012-2019. 2023-03-06Final no updates expected
Fish and invertebrate transect survey dataset from the West coast of Leyte, the Philippines in the municipalities of Albuera (10.91667, 124.69667) and Bay Bay City (11.07611, 124.87525), 2014-20172022-11-22Final no updates expected
Clownfish photos from the West coast of Leyte, the Philippines in the municipalities of Albuera and Bay Bay City between 2015 and 20182022-11-21Final no updates expected
Benthic cover quadrat observations and photos from the West coast of Leyte, the Philippines in the municipalities of Albuera and Bay Bay City, 2014-20172022-11-08Final no updates expected
GPS drifters monitoring flow direction set off the coast of the West coast of Leyte, the Philippines in the municipalities of Albuera and Bay Bay City, May - June 20172022-11-08Final no updates expected
Tilt Current Meter deployed in Visca, Bay Bay City, Leyte, the Philippines, in June 20172022-11-08Final no updates expected
Codes used in 2018 data including anemone and clownfish species, clownfish tail color/shape and dive-type2020-01-02Final no updates expected
GPX log of survey dives(?) from coastal reefs of Ormoc Bay, Leyte, Philippines, 2012-20182019-11-06Final no updates expected
Dive log from coastal reefs of Ormoc Bay, Leyte, Philippines, 2012-20182019-11-06Final no updates expected
Clownfish collection log including such as depth, species, and size from coastal reefs of Ormoc Bay, Leyte, Philippines, 2012-20182019-11-06Final no updates expected
Anemone observation log including such as depth, species, and size from coastal reefs of Ormoc Bay, Leyte, Philippines, 2012-20182019-11-06Final no updates expected
Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags scan log from the west coast of Leyte, the Philippines in the municipalities of Albuera and Bay Bay City, 2014-2018.2019-11-06Final no updates expected
SCUBA dive sites from the west coast of Leyte, Philippines in the municipalities of Albuera (10.91667, 124.69667) and Bay Bay City (11.07611, 124.87528), 2012-2018.2016-04-12Final no updates expected

People

Principal Investigator: Malin Pinsky
Rutgers University

Contact: Malin Pinsky
Rutgers University


Data Management Plan

DMP_Pinsky_OCE-1430218.pdf (112.67 KB)
02/09/2025