title: Reef fish diversity at Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles, during the five years following the 1998 coral bleaching event.
abstract: Quantitative surveys of fish-species diversity were undertaken at 10 m and 20 m water depth on the outer reef at Aldabra Atoll, southern Seychelles, between November 1999 and May 2003. No significant changes in total fish-species diversity, numbers of families represented by these species, or numbers of pomacentrid or chaetodontid species were seen, contrary to fish-diversity changes seen on coral bleaching-impacted reefs elsewhere. The lack of additional anthropogenic pressures at remote Aldabara may make this system, and others like it, more tolerant of bleaching-related population changes.
authors.affiliation: Cambridge Coastal Research Unit, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. mukiwa@netcomuk.co.uk
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Downing
authors.forename: Raymond
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Buckley
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stobart
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Leclair
authors.forename: Kristian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Teleki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D037421:Anthozoa; D044822:Biodiversity; D017753:Ecosystem; D005399:Fishes / Q000254:growth & development*; D019156:Indian Ocean; D007195:Indian Ocean Islands