Modeling fish biomass structure at near pristine coral reefs and degradation by fishing

DOI10.1142/S0218339011500318zbMATH Open1246.92029arXiv0809.5225OpenAlexW2963619542MaRDI QIDQ2907884FDOQ2907884

Howard Weiss, Wendy Morrison, Hao Wang, Abhinav Singh

Publication date: 4 September 2012

Published in: Journal of Biological Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Until recently, the only examples of inverted biomass pyramids have been in freshwater and marine planktonic communities. In 2002 and 2008 investigators documented inverted biomass pyramids for nearly pristine coral reef ecosystems within the NW Hawaiian islands and the Line Islands, where apex predator abundance comprises up to 85% of the fish biomass. We build a new refuge based predator-prey model to study the fish biomass structure at coral reefs and investigate the effect of fishing on biomass pyramids. Utilizing realistic life history parameters of coral reef fish, our model exhibits a stable inverted biomass pyramid. Since the predators and prey are not well mixed, our model does not incorporate homogeneous mixing and the inverted biomass pyramid is a consequence of the refuge. Understanding predator-prey dynamics in nearly pristine conditions provides a more realistic historical framework for comparison with fished reefs. Finally, we show that fishing transforms the inverted biomass pyramid to be bottom heavy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.5225

zbMATH Keywords

refugefunctional responserecoveryfishingcoral

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.) (91B76) Ecology (92D40)

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