Spalding, M. D., Ravilious, C. & Green, E. P. World atlas of coral reefs, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, USA (2001).
Hoegh-Guldberg, O. et al. Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification. Science 318, 1737–1742 (2007).
Google Scholar
Hughes, T. P. et al. Phase shifts, herbivory, and the resilience of coral reefs to climate change. Curr. Biol. 17, 360–365 (2007).
Google Scholar
Moritz, C., Vii, J., Lee Long, W., Tamelander, J., Thomassin, A. & Planes, S. Status and Trends of Coral Reefs of the Pacific. Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, 114 pp (2018).
Morrison, T. H., Hughes, T. P., Adger, W. N. & Brown, K. Save reefs to rescue all ecosystems. Nature 573, 334–336 (2019).
Google Scholar
Bellwood, D. R., Hughes, T. P. & Hoey, A. S. Sleeping functional group drives coral-reef recovery. Curr. Biol. 16, 2434–2439 (2006).
Google Scholar
Graham, N. A. et al. Managing resilience to reverse phase shifts in coral reefs. Front. Ecol. Environ. 11, 541–548 (2013).
Google Scholar
Cavender-Bares, J., Keen, A. & Miles, B. Phylogenetic structure of Floridian plant communities depends on taxonomic and spatial scale. Ecology 87, 109–122 (2006).
Google Scholar
Gajdzik, L. et al. Similar levels of trophic and functional diversity within damselfish assemblages across Indo- Pacific coral reefs. Function. Ecol. 32, 1358–1369 (2018).
Google Scholar
Holling, C. S. Resilience and stability of ecological systems. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 4, 1–23 (1973).
Google Scholar
Viviani, J. et al. Synchrony patterns reveal different degrees of trophic guild vulnerability after disturbances in a coral reef fish community. Divers. Distrib. 5, 1–12 (2019).
Paine, R. T. A note on trophic complexity and community stability. Am. Nat. 103, 91–93 (1969).
Google Scholar
Mills, L. C., Soule, M. E. & Doak, D. F. The keystone-species concept in ecology and conservation. Bioscience 4, 219–224 (1993).
Google Scholar
Bouchon, C. et al. Status of the coral reefs of the Lesser Antilles after 2005 coral bleaching event in Status of Caribbean coral reefs after bleaching and hurricanes in 2005 (eds. Wilkinson C et al.) 85–104 (Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network and Reef and Rainforest Research Center, Townsville, 2008).
Jackson, J. B. C., Donovan, M. K., Cramer, K. L., Lam, V. V. Status and Trends of Caribbean Coral Reefs: 1970–2012. Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland (2014)
Cernohorsky, N. H., McClanahan, T. R., Babu, I. & Horsa, M. Small herbivores suppress algal accumulation on Agatti atoll, Indian Ocean. Coral Reefs 34, 1023–1035 (2015).
Google Scholar
Altman-Kurosaki, N. T., Priest, M. A., Golbuu, Y., Mumby, P. J. & Marshell, J. Microherbivores are significant grazers on Palau’s forereefs. Mar. Biol. 165, 74–86 (2018).
Google Scholar
Ceccarelli, D. M., Jones, G. P. & McCook, L. J. Territorial damselfishes as determinants of the structure of benthic communities on coral reefs. Oceanog. Mar. Biol. Annu. Rev. 39, 355–389 (2001).
Hata, H. & Ceccarelli, D. M. Farming behaviour of territorial Damselfishes in Biology of Damselfishes (eds. Parmentier, E. & Frederich B.) 122–152 (CRC Press, 2016).
Brooker, R. M. et al. Niche construction and the natural selection of domestication. Nat. Commun. 11, 6253 (2020).
Google Scholar
Hata, H. & Kato, M. Monoculture and mixed-species algal farms on a coral reef are maintained through intensive and extensive management by damselfishes. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 313, 285–296 (2004).
Google Scholar
Ceccarelli, D. M. Modification of benthic communities by territorial damselfish: a multi-species comparison. Coral Reefs 26, 853–866 (2007).
Google Scholar
Emslie, M. J. et al. Regional-scale variation in the distribution and abundance of farming damselfishes on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Mar. Biol. 159, 1293–1304 (2012).
Google Scholar
Precht, W. F., Aronson, R. B. & Moody, R. M. Changing patterns of microhabitat utilization by the threespot damselfish, Stegastes planifrons, on Caribbean reefs. PloS ONE 5, e10835 (2010).
Casey, J. M., Ainsworth, T. D., Choat, J. H. & Connolly, S. R. Farming behaviour of reef fishes increases the prevalence of coral disease associated microbes and black band disease. Proc. R. Soc. B. 281, 20141032 (2014).
Google Scholar
Randazzo-Eisemann, Á., Montero Muñoz, J. L., McField, M., Myton, J. & Arias-González, J. E. The effect of Algal-gardening damselfish on the resilience of the mesoamerican Reef. Front. Mar. Sci. 6, 414–421 (2019).
Sandin, S. A. et al. Baselines and degradation of coral reefs in the Northern Line Islands. PLoS ONE 3, e1548 (2008).
Naim, O. et al. Fringing reefs of Reunion Island and eutrophication effects: long term monitoring of primary producers. Atoll Res. Bull. 597, 1–14 (2013).
Google Scholar
Figueira, W. F., Lyman, S. J., Crowder, L. B. & Rilov, G. Small-scale demographic variability of the biocolor damselfish, Stegastes partitus, in the Florida Keys USA. Environ. Biol. Fish 81, 297–311 (2008).
Google Scholar
Carpenter, R. C. Partitioning herbivory and its effects on coral reef algal communities. Ecol. Monogr. 56, 345 (1986).
Google Scholar
Bellwood, D. R. & Fulton, C. J. Sediment-mediated suppression of herbivory on coral reefs: decreasing resilience to rising sea-levels and climate change?. Limnol. Oceanogr. 53(6), 2695–2701 (2008).
Google Scholar
Galzin, R. Biomasse ichtyologique dans les écosystèmes récifaux. Etude préliminaire de la dynamique d’une population de Stegastes nigricans dans le lagon de Moorea (Société, Polynésie française). Rev. Trav. Inst. Pêches Marit. 40, 575–578 (1977).
Lison de Loma, T., Galzin, R. & Planes, S. A framework for assessing impacts of marine protected areas in Moorea (French Polynesia). Pacif. Sci. 62, 431–441(2008).
Glaser, M. et al. Breaking resilience for a sustainable future: thoughts for the anthropocene. Front. Mar. Sci. 5, 34–40 (2018).
Google Scholar
Siu, G. et al. Shore fishes of French Polynesia. Cybium 41, 245–278 (2017).
Tebbett, S. B., Chase, T. J. & Bellwood, D. R. Farming damselfishes shape algal turf sediment dynamics on coral reefs. Mar. Envirron. Res. 160, 104988 (2020).
Wilkes, A. A. et al. A comparison of damselfish densities on live staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) and coral rubble in Dry Tortugas National Park. Southeast. Nat. 7, 483–492 (2008).
Google Scholar
Blanchette, A. et al. Damselfish Stegastes nigricans increase algal growth within their territories on shallow coral reefs via enhanced nutrient supplies. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 513, 21–26 (2019).
Google Scholar
Galzin, R. Structure of fish communities of French Polynesian coral reefs. I. Spatial scales. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 41, 129–136 (1987a).
Galzin, R. Structure of fish communities of French Polynesian coral reefs. II. Temporal scales. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 41, 137–145 (1987b).
Lecchini, D. & Galzin, R. Spatial repartition and ontogenetic shifts in habitat use by coral reef fishes (Moorea, French Polynesia). Mar. Biol. 147, 47–58 (2005).
Google Scholar
Galzin, R., Marfin, J. P. & Salvat, B. Long term coral reef monitoring program: heterogeneity of the Tiahura barrier reef (Moorea, French Polynesia). Galaxea 11, 73–91 (1993).
Galzin, R., Lecchini, D., Lison de Loma, T., Moritz, C. & Siu, G. Long term monitoring of coral and fish assemblages (1983–2014) in Tiahura reefs, Moorea, French Polynesia. Cybium 40, 31–41 (2016).
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. Eds. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org (2018).
Hamed, K. H. & Rao, A. R. A modified Mann-Kendall trend test for autocorrelated data. J. Hydrol. 204, 182–196 (1998).
Google Scholar
Patakamuri, S.K. & O’Brien, N. Modifiedmk: Modified versions of Mann Kendall and Spearman’s Rho trend tests. R package version 1.5.0 (2020).
R Core Team. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna (2017).
RStudio Team. R Studio: Integrated Development for R. RStudio, PBC, Boston, MA (2020).
Source: Ecology - nature.com