Extensive artificial waterways have replaced natural wetlands and created new estuarine habitats on the southernQueensland coast, Australia. Economically important fish species found in adjacent natural wetlands of mangrove, saltmarsh and seagrass also occur in the artificial waterways. Stable isotope analyses (dC, dN)were used to test whether the relative importance of basal sources of energy ...

Understanding the movement dynamics of marine fish provides valuable information that can assist with species management, particularly regarding protection within marine protected areas (MPAs). We performed an acoustic tagging study implemented within the Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, Australia, to assess the movement patterns, home range and d...

Due to insufficient morphological diagnostic characters in larval fishes, it is easy to misidentify them and difficult to key to the genus or species level. The identification results from different laboratories are often inconsistent. This experiment aims to find out, by applying DNA barcoding, how inconsistent the identifications can be among larval fish taxonomists. One hundred morphotypes o...

Dispersal is a key process shaping species population structure. In demersal marine fishes, which usually have sedentary adult phases, dispersion relies on drifting larval stages. However, the dynamics and seasonal variability of seawater masses can greatly determine connectivity patterns these along same geographic gradient. For this reason, detailed information release moment larvae needed to...

Being a biologically diversed hotspot in the global marine ecosystem, Beibu Gulf is inhabited by high diversity of fish and serves as vital fishing ground China. Due to continuous overfishing, fishery resource has drastically declined Gulf. However, information about ichthyoplankton assemblages this area still lacking. In present study, diversity, spatial temporal distribution patterns, assembl...