Damselfish {emdbook}

Reef fish (damselfish) data

Description

Two data sets on Dascyllus trimaculatus (three-spot damselfish), one on the distribution of settlement densities to empty anemones across time and space, the other on survival (recruitment) of arriving settlers as a function of experimentally manipulated densities from Schmitt et al. (1999).

Usage

data(DamselSettlement)
data(DamselRecruitment)
data(DamselRecruitment_sum)

Format

Three data frames:

site

settlement site (location)

pulse

monthly settlement pulse

obs

observation within pulse

density

density of settlers per 0.1 m2 anemone

area

anemone area in cm2

init

initial settler density

surv

surviving density after 6 months

settler.den

target experimental density of settlers on experimental anemones

surv.den

mean surviving density after 6 months, by target density

SE

standard error of survivor density, by target density

Source

Schmitt et al. (1999), "Quantifying the effects of multiple processes on local abundance", Ecology Letters 2:294-303. DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00086.x (Original data kindly provided by Schmitt and Holbrook.) The original version of this data set is available from the Moorea Coral Reef LTER data repository.