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Factors affecting the local abundance of two anemonefishes (Amphiprion frenatus and A. perideraion) around a semi-closed bay in Puerto Galera, the Philippines

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Many marine organisms disperse or migrate among habitats, which affects their abundance patterns at individual local habitats. To clarify the factors affecting the distribution patterns of two anemonefishes (Amphiprion frenatus and A. perideraion), we measured the habitat patch size (anemone size), patch isolation (mean distance from other anemones), presence/absence of other anemonefish species, depth, and abundance of the two anemonefishes at each anemone around a semi-closed bay (up to 3.7 km) in Puerto Galera, the Philippines. We assumed that local abundance increases with habitat size and decreases with patch isolation because of greater resource availability and reduced rates of recruitment from other patches. Local abundance of A. frenatus was related to habitat size and the presence of other anemonefish species, whereas that of A. perideraion was affected by the presence of other anemonefish species and water depth. Interspecific competition and/or niche differentiation of habitat can explain the negative relationship between the local abundance of the target species and other anemonefish. Patch isolation was not significant for both species probably because the dispersal rate was not directly proportional to the geographic distance between patches at our study site.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Kazuo Nadaoka and Eiko Tsukamoto of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yukio Nagahama and Yvette Geroleo of the Japan International Cooperation Agency for their helpful support to conduct field research, the Municipality of Puerto Galera for their full cooperation during the field work, Venus Leopardas of the Hokkaido University for checking English text, and Editor Mutsunori Tokeshi and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments. This research was jointly funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS), for the project Coastal Ecosystem Conservation and Adaptive Management under Local and Global Environmental Impacts in the Philippines (CECAM project: http://www.cecam-project.net/).

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  1. Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, 1 Aikappu, Akkeshi-cho, Hokkaido, 088-1113, Japan

    Masaaki Sato

  2. Akkeshi Marine Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, 1 Aikappu, Akkeshi-cho, Hokkaido, 088-1113, Japan

    Kentaro Honda & Masahiro Nakaoka

  3. Marine Science Institute, CS, University of the Philippines Diliman, 1101, Quezon City, Philippines

    Klenthon O. Bolisay & Miguel D. Fortes

  4. Graduate School of Kuroshio Science, Kochi University, 200 Monobe, Nankoku, Kochi, 783-8502, Japan

    Yohei Nakamura

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Sato, M., Honda, K., Bolisay, K.O. et al. Factors affecting the local abundance of two anemonefishes (Amphiprion frenatus and A. perideraion) around a semi-closed bay in Puerto Galera, the Philippines. Hydrobiologia 733, 63–69 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-013-1758-4

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