Abstract Submission

Send meeting abstracts to the Organizing Committee at eeef@bu.edu. Manuscripts presented at the EEEF 2008 meeting will be considered for publication in a special issue of the refereed journal, Environmental Biology of Fishes, if submitted to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor David L. G. Noakes.

Conference abstracts are due by May 30 via email to: eeef@bu.edu

All presenters and abstract co-authors attending EEEF 2008 must send payment and registration by postal mail. Abstract submission via email does not constitute registration.

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Provided by Anthony Mazeroll, the EEEF 2006 host (Thanks for a great meeting!)
Biodiversity Symposium
Talk: PC, Media Player

Ecology of Red Sea anemonefish on both sides of the Gulf of Aqaba

Anthony I. Mazeroll1*, Renee L. Mazeroll2, Denis Goulet3, Maroof A. Khalaf4
1Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo, CA, 92656 USA
2Point Loma Nazarene University, Department of Nursing, San Diego, CA, 92106, USA
3Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, University, MS, 38677, USA
4Marine Science Station-Aqaba, Aqaba, Jordan
 amazeroll@soka.edu

Anemonefish (Family Pomacentridae) are known for their symbiotic associations with
tropical sea anemones. In the northern Gulf of Aqaba, anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus)
occur in widely dispersed isolated mated pairs, as single adults, or less often
as haremic social groups. We compared the ecology of anemonefish in Eilat, Israel and
in Aqaba, Jordan. These two study sites are on opposite sides of the upper Gulf of
Aqaba approx. 5 miles apart. On average, each anemone in Eilat has less than 1 fish
occupying it (mean = 0.7 fish, range 0-4). In Jordan, there are significantly more fish
inhabiting each anemone (mean = 1.2 fish, range 0-6: p = 0.01). In fact, most of the
anemonefish within the study site in Jordan occupy multiple anemones and live in social
groups with two breeding adults along with 2 or more sub-adult/juveniles. In Israel, all
fish/pairs within the study site occupy just one anemone. The anemonefish in Jordan
are also significantly larger than the anemonefish in Israel (Jordan: mean = 70 mm,
range 10-135 mm; Israel mean = 43 mm, range 10-105 mm; p = 0.0001). Additionally,
both the numbers of anemones and anemonefish declined drastically from 1996 to 1999
in Eilat, but stayed relatively constant in Aqaba over a two-year period (1998-1999).
Furthermore, fish swim significantly farther away from their host anemones in Jordan
than they do in Israel (p = 0.001).