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The impact of individual and combined abiotic factors on daily otolith growth in a coral reef fish

Amelia S. Wenger

¹ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia

James Whinney

²College of Science, Technology, and Technology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia

Brett Taylor

ⁱⁱⁱNOAA Fisheries, 1845 Wasp Boulevard, Building 176, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96818, USA

Frederieke Kroon

⁴Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia

Received 2016 Apr eighteen; Accepted 2016 Jun ix.

Abstruse

Coral reefs are increasingly subjected to both local and global stressors, however, there is limited data on how reef organisms respond to their combined effects under natural conditions. This field study examined the growth response of the damselfish Neopomacentrus bankieri to the individual and combined effects of multiple abiotic factors. Turbidity, temperature, tidal movement, and wave action were recorded every ten minutes for four months, after which the daily otolith growth of N. bankieri was aligned with corresponding abiotic conditions. Temperature was the only significant driver of daily otolith increment width, with increasing temperatures resulting in decreasing width. Although tidal movement was not a meaning driver of increment width by itself, the combined upshot of tidal movement and temperature had a greater negative effect on growth than temperature alone. Our results indicate that temperature tin can bulldoze changes in growth even at very fine scales, and demonstrate that the cumulative touch of abiotic factors can be essentially greater than private furnishings. As abiotic factors continue to alter in intensity and duration, the combined impacts of them will get increasingly important drivers of physiological and ecological alter.

It has been well established that fluctuations in abiotic factors can influence natural environments across multiple organisational scales^{1 ,ii ,3}. Abiotic influences on private species can drive changes in community composition and ultimately ecosystem function^{4 ,5 ,6}. Equally multiple lines of evidence accrue that humans are fundamentally modifying abiotic backdrop of ecosystems, information technology has go increasingly imperative to understand how these modifications influence organisms^{7 ,8 ,9}.

Coral reefs are 1 the most productive and biologically various marine ecosystems on Earth and also one of the most threatened by human pressure^{ten ,eleven}. Coral reefs are increasingly subjected to local stressors, such as changes in water clarity from land-based runoff¹² and to global stressors, such as rising temperatures¹³ and decreasing pH levels^xiv, due to climatic change. Additionally, oceanographic features such equally wind-wave climate are changing in response to rising temperatures¹⁵. Given the changes that are occurring, information technology is crucial to understand how human being-induced and natural fluctuations in abiotic variables collaborate with each other and how organisms respond to the combined effect of local and global stressors^{3 ,16}.

Our understanding of how abiotic factors direct touch on coral reef fish has improved essentially over the last several years. Laboratory studies have indicated that turbidity can reduce foraging success, leading to reduced growth¹⁷. Increased temperature coupled with unlimited food supply can event in college growth rates of coral reef fish^xviii. However, above an optimal temperature, or in low nutrient conditions with high temperature, growth declines¹⁹. Wave action and water menses can both positively and negatively impact foraging success in planktivorous fishes^{20 ,21}. Nevertheless, despite increased cognition on the effects of unmarried abiotic factors, laboratory studies examining the effects of multiple abiotic factors on fish are in their infancy. Even when they exist, they are frequently focused on abiotic factors related to climate change, particularly temperature and pH^{22 ,23 ,24}. Furthermore, while laboratory studies have the advantage of beingness able to control multiple abiotic factors, organisms' responses are oft tested under static atmospheric condition²⁴. In the natural environment, abiotic factors vary over contained spatial and temporal scales. The timing, overlap, and intensity of each abiotic factor volition profoundly influence the response of individuals²⁵. Understanding how abiotic factors influence coral reef fishes nether natural weather remains an important knowledge gap that is cardinal to our understanding of the risks facing marine resources.

Stochastic fluctuations in abiotic factors makes identifying the right calibration or appropriate measures to assess the potential effects a challenge. Otolith biochronology is beingness increasingly employed to hind-cast the effects of abiotic factors on fish, often on almanac and decadal scales^{26 ,27 ,28}. However, hind-casting over such large time scales oft requires the use of biogeochemical proxies or coarse resolution ecology data, both of which increase the dubiousness in identifying specific drivers of change^{2 ,29}. A similar arroyo could be applied to examining the furnishings of abiotic fluctuations on daily otolith growth in fish. The width of daily otolith increments can provide estimates of daily resolved growth^thirty and has been used and validated as a common proxy for daily growth for several coral reef species^{31 ,32 ,33}. While individual variations in growth may be, the overall shared growth pattern of multiple fish within a population will reverberate whatever environmental point³⁴. Thus, a combination of high resolution turbidity, temperature, moving ridge, and tide (a proxy for water menses) information and daily measurements of otolith growth from fish experiencing known conditions can provide unique insight into how fluctuating environmental conditions may touch on fish growth. An analysis of this kind will allow u.s.a. to refine our understanding of the role of dissimilar abiotic factors in driving fish growth and how fish growth may change as each gene changes.

This report examined the daily otolith incremental widths of juvenile Neopomacentrus bankieri, a planktivorous damselfish, from three inshore coral reefs in the Peachy Barrier Reef. Measurements of turbidity, temperature, wave action, and tidal forcing at each reef were taken every 10 minutes for four months prior to the drove of fish. The growth increments of the otoliths of collected individuals were matched with the corresponding daily boilerplate of each parameter to determine the forcefulness and significance of turbidity, temperature, tidal fluctuations, and wave action on daily growth.

Results

Measurement of environmental parameters

Turbidity ranged from 0-120.8 NTU across all sites from April 2^nd to August ii^nd in 2013 (Tabular array 1) with peaks unremarkably lasting for a few days earlier returning to background levels. Temperature ranged from twenty.3–xxx.0 °C across all sites, with daily average temperature reducing throughout the report period from the highest level in April to the lowest in August. Moving ridge activeness, measured as root mean squared (RMS) pressure, was quite variable throughout the study menses, ranging from 0–0.162 m (an RMS of 0.162 g is approximately equivalent to a significant moving ridge meridian of 1.vi k³⁵). The tidal range in the region ranged from 0.ix–6.three m, with variations occurring over a menses of approximately 2 weeks (Table 1). Daily boilerplate turbidity, wave action, and tidal range varied throughout the study menstruum, whereas daily average temperature had a clear temporal signature (Supplementary Figs S1–4).

Table ane

Summary statistics of turbidity, temperature, wave activeness, and tidal range beyond all sites.

		Average	Median	Maximum	Minimum
Bay Rock Reef	Turbidity (NTU)	ten.one	vi.6	120.8	0.0
	Temperature (C)	24.3	23.7	28.2	21.6
	Wave Action (RMS)	0.03	0.02	0.16	0.001
	Tidal Range (m)	ii.3	2.iii	iii.9	0.9
Middle Reef	Turbidity	7.4	iii.five	66.9	0.3
	Temperature	23.6	22.8	30.0	20.6
	Wave Action	0.01	0.01	0.12	0.00
	Tidal Range	2.8	2.vii	four.4	1.1
Rattlesnake Island Reef	Turbidity	three.i	ane.9	22.seven	0.ane
	Temperature	23.vii	23.0	28.2	20.3
	Wave Action	0.02	0.02	0.xiii	0.00
	Tidal Range	four.2	4.one	6.3	2.6

Relationship between somatic growth and otolith growth

There was a strong positively correlated human relationship betwixt both otolith length and width and standard length (rⁱⁱ = 0.91 and 0.87, respectively, Supplementary Fig. S5). The residual plots of the model (Supplementary Fig. S6) indicated that the residuals were consequent with stochastic error. There was a much stronger relationship between otolith morphometrics and fish standard length than between the age of the individual and standard length (r² = 0.71).

Relationship between abiotic factors and daily growth rate

Temperature was the only abiotic factor that significantly drove changes in growth, with higher temperatures leading to lower growth rates (P = 0.0013; Table 2; Fig. 1). This was regardless of the time of twelvemonth the fish were caught, as date of growth was included in the model. Although non significant, there was a negative relationship between otolith growth and tidal range (Supplementary Fig. S7). Conversely, at that place was a positive, but non-significant relationship between wave action and otolith growth (Supplementary Fig. S8). Finally, there was no trend between turbidity and growth (Supplementary Fig. S9).

The linear mixed effects model predicted fit of the relationship between normalised temperature and daily otolith increment width.

Grey shading around the blackness line correspond bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals. Grayness dots stand for the raw information.

Table 2

The results from the linear mixed effects models.

Stock-still effects	Estimate	Standard Error	df	t value	Pr (>|t|)
Initial linear mixed effects model (BIC = 3288.63)
Turbidity	−0.05191	0.04608	385	−one.127	0.73998
Temperature	−0.07453	0.03256	248	−iii.02	0.0026
Tide	0.01496	0.04745	74	0.315	0.71354
Waves	0.05741	0.04795	176	1.197	0.22490
Final linear mixed furnishings model (BIC = 3255.75)
Temperature	−0.07237	0.03106	262	−iii.225	0.00197

Effect of cumulative impacts on growth

The results of the cumulative affect assessment for turbidity and temperature indicated there was no difference in growth among "command", "private effects", or "combined effects" atmospheric condition. Growth was significantly lower when fish were exposed to both high temperature merely (P = 0.007; Fig. ii) as well as loftier temperatures and large tidal ranges (P = 0.001; Fig. 2) compared to growth during depression temperatures and small tidal range conditions. Growth in fish exposed to the combined furnishings of high temperature and big tidal ranges was also significantly lower than growth in fish exposed to depression temperatures but large tidal ranges (i.e., the individual effect of tide) (P = 0.03). Although in that location was not a significant difference betwixt the individual issue of temperature and the combined furnishings of temperature and tide, the Cohen'southward d values for the effect sizes among the four atmospheric condition indicate that the combined consequence of temperature and tidal range was greater than the individual issue of each abiotic cistron (Table three).

Box plot of the individual and combined effects of temperature and tidal range.

Condition 1 = low temperature, small tidal range (command); 2 = low temperature, big tidal range (individual effect of tides); three = high temperature, small tidal range (individual result of temperature); 4 = loftier temperature, big tidal range (combined effects of temperature and tide). Numbers above confined indicate the conditions between which in that location is a significant difference.

Table three

The Cohen'due south d values for the combined furnishings of temperature and tide and temperature and waves.

	Cohen'southward d(groups compared to control)
Temperature and tide effects
low temperature low tide (control)
low temperature high tide (individual result of tidal move)	0.58
high temperature low tide (individual upshot of temperature)	1.19
high temperature loftier tide (combined effects)	1.54
Temperature and moving ridge effects
low temperature high wave action (control)
low temperature low wave action (private outcome of waves)	0.79
high temperature high wave action (individual effect of temperature)	1.10
high temperature low wave activeness (combined effects)	1.07

When the combined effects of temperature and moving ridge action were examined, in that location was a pregnant reduction in growth between the command condition (low temperature loftier wave activeness) and both the combined furnishings condition (loftier temperature low wave activeness) and the individual outcome of temperature condition (high temperature high wave activeness) (P = 0.03; Fig. 3). The Cohen's d values indicate that there was express additional influence of moving ridge activity when combined with temperature (Table iii).

Box plot of the private and combined furnishings of temperature and moving ridge activity.

Condition 1 = low temperature, high wave action (control); 2 = low temperature, low moving ridge action (private upshot of waves); 3 = high temperature, loftier wave action (private effect of temperature); 4 = loftier temperature, low wave action (combined effects of temperature and moving ridge action). Numbers above bars indicate the conditions between which there is a significant deviation.

Give-and-take

Small scale ecological processes such equally foraging and growth are imperative for ecosystem functioning and population persistence^{36 ,37}. This report illustrated that temperature was the primary abiotic factor driving coral reef fish otolith growth. Furthermore, our results betoken that even when tidal movement did not individually mediate changes in otolith growth, when combined with temperature, information technology acquired a significant reduction in daily otolith growth beyond those seen past temperature alone. To our knowledge, this is the get-go time that otolith biochronology has been used to appraise how multiple abiotic factors mediate fine-scale changes in coral reef fish otolith growth and represents a meaning progression in our ability to detect and predict how abiotic fluctuations impact coral reef fish.

Our results are consequent with previous studies that have likewise indicated that temperature can mediate otolith growth^{27 ,38}. Temperature plays a role in growth due to the acceleration of metabolic rates in warmer temperatures³⁹. McLeod et al.¹⁸ establish that larvae fed ad libitum increased daily growth equally temperature increased, only also establish that larvae on restricted diets had slower daily growth rates every bit temperature increased. Faster growth rates in higher temperatures tin can but be supported if ingestion rates increase, due to increased metabolic rates, which increases exponentially rather than linearly with temperature^{40 ,41}. Additionally, increased temperature will only support increased growth upward to an optimal temperature, after which, growth rates decline dramatically⁴². McLeod et al.³³ recorded a non-linear relationship between larval otolith growth and mean water temperatures in two species, with the thermal optima for growth being surpassed at low breadth sites. Similarly, Morrongiello and Thresher³⁸ only constitute a potent negative correlation between temperature and otolith growth in tiger flathead when at their equatorward range limit. Given that the results of the present report establish a linear reduction in otolith growth as temperature increased, it is possible that at that place was non more nutrient available to match the demands of the increases in metabolic rate due to increased temperature.

Several studies take identified potential drivers that could influence both otolith increase widths and somatic growth, including feeding government⁴³ and lipid reserves⁴⁴. In contrast, Kingsford et al.⁴⁵ found that water chemistry could change increment width, which would be unlikely to drive changes in somatic growth. All the same, the strong relationship establish in this study between otolith dimensions and standard length of private N. bankieri suggests that abiotic factors that are influencing otolith growth will also influence somatic growth. Additional factors, such as carry-over furnishings from pre-settlement life stages, may influence growth trajectories if they differ consistently among sites⁴⁶. The vast majority of sampled fish in the present report were over xxx days old at the time of capture, thus making information technology problematic to examination for site-specific carry-over effects influencing larval phenotype. Even so, while individual anomalies may make it hard to compare otolith increment growth to absolute somatic growth, the use of population level otolith growth as a proxy for population level somatic growth can provide reasonable estimates, particularly in information poor regions or with species where laboratory testing is not possible^{29 ,34}.

Previous meta-analyses have examined the potential for condiment, synergistic, or combative responses to multiple stressors^{16 ,24}. However, all of these meta-analyses were based on experimental studies that were able to control conditions. Given that abiotic variables vary independently, it was not possible in our dataset to completely control for each variable. However, our results bear witness that even when tide did not drive meaning variation in growth, the combined effect of tide and temperature was greater than temperature alone. Increased temperature has been shown to reduce the aerobic scope of coral reef fishes, which could diminish their ability to finer capture prey. Additionally, large tidal fluctuations can increase flow rates, which can make it harder for fish to catch casualty²¹. A reduced capacity to react with fast moving prey could increase evasion success in planktonic prey^{21 ,47 ,48}. In coral reef fishes, like most other organisms, food acquisition is ane of the key daily activities dictating private performance such as growth, reproduction and life expectancy^{49 ,l}. Ultimately foraging success and growth can strongly touch on patterns of distribution, affluence and population dynamics⁵¹.

Contrary to expectations, turbidity had no result on daily growth. This is in contrast to published studies that show an effect of suspended sediment on coral reef fishes^{17 ,21}. One of the potential confounding furnishings is that the sediment on nearshore reefs in the Peachy Bulwark Reef is nutrient enriched⁵². When sediment is re-suspended, fifty-fifty if the fish could have reduced visual acuity, the nutrient enriched sediment may increase their food supply, and counteract whatsoever negative effects on foraging. However, Johansen and Jones²¹ institute that Neopomacentrus bankieri did not experience a negative effect on foraging until eight NTU; a daily average exceeded thirty% of the time on the study reefs. Due north. bankieri is only found on nearshore reefs, whose communities tin can possess inherent resistance to higher turbidity based on natural turbidity regimes^{53 ,54}. It was not possible to catch a species that occurs across multiple turbidity regimes, due to the extremely low abundances of other species on these coral reefs, despite suitable habitat (A. Wenger, unpublished data). Farther research should focus on other species found on both turbid and clear-water coral reefs.

Climate-modify models predict that tropical sea surface temperatures will increment past up to 3 °C this century⁵⁵. Our results show that present 24-hour interval temperatures are already negatively affecting growth. While we were non able to measure out food availability, food is rarely unlimited in the marine environment. It is evident, based on the results, that N. bankieri individuals were non able to maintain consequent growth rates through increases in their nutrient intake. Elevated ocean temperatures are predicted to cause a 2–20% reduction in global marine master production past 2100⁵⁶, which volition be superimposed onto plankton communities that are naturally variable on a broad range of spatial and temporal scales⁵⁷. Food variability combined with fluctuating abiotic factors volition create a gradient of weather that fish will face. Planktivorous coral reef fishes play a principal role in the continued health and diversity of coral reef ecosystems. Planktivorous fishes represent ~22% of all coral reef fish species and account for ~60% of the full fish biomass on coral reefs⁵⁸. They are also the main food source for many ecologically and commercially of import predator species⁵⁹. Given that fishes in early life history stages require more energy than adults to withstand starvation (due to loftier metabolic rates and depression free energy storage) and are more prone to mortality⁶⁰, temperature will differentially affect early life history stages of coral reef fishes. Small changes in mortality during early life history stages can have large impacts on cohort success⁶¹. Our written report highlights the importance of examining systems holistically to be able to truly understand how each variable influences growth.

Methods

Measurement of environmental parameters

Three inshore coral reef locations in the Great Barrier Reef were called as study sites: Bay Rock Reef, Middle Reef, and Rattlesnake Island Reef (Fig. 4). In the GBR, the term 'inshore' applies to areas within 6 to 20 km of the coast^{62 ,63}. Ecosystems within this inshore area, including coral reefs, are under pressure from increased sediment and nutrient loads carried by land runoff⁶⁴. The iii reefs considered in this study are exposed to runoff from the Burdekin River, the main sources of terrestrially sourced suspended sediment in the GBR⁶⁵.

Map of study region.

The map was generated using ArcMap v.10.two.1 (desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/).

On the 2^nd and 3^rd of April, 2013, 2 nephelometers were placed at each reef inside 200 meters of each other. The nephelometers were mounted on heavy steel frames that raised the musical instrument ~40 cm off the seafloor. Turbidity, temperature and pressure level measurements were recorded every ten min. Each turbidity and temperature tape was an average of 250 measurements taken over a 1 sec period, the same was done for pressure; however, x consecutive readings were taken over a menses of x seconds. The mean of the x pressure readings was and so calibrated to provide a water depth, which was used to measure tidal variation, whilst their root-mean-square was used to requite an expression of the variation in seabed pressure due to wave action (in meters). It should be noted that the ten second menses for the pressure measurements may not be long enough to notice all long wavelength neat waves, however these waves are uncommon in the Groovy Bulwark Reef Lagoon. Sensors were equipped with an anti-fouling wiper which was activated every 2 h⁶⁶. The nephelometer was calibrated before deployment to the standard 200 Nephelometer Turbidity Units (NTU). On the 14^th of June, each nephelometer was retrieved, the data were downloaded, and the batteries were changed. The nephelometers were and so re-deployed in the same locations.

Fish growth analysis

All collections were approved by the James Cook Academy Animal Ethics Committee, approval number A1932 and were completed in accordance to the guidelines laid out past the ideals committee and the Great Bulwark Reef Marine Park Authority. From July 31^st-August 2^nd, 2013, juvenile Neopomacentrus bankieri were collected from each reef, between the ii nephelometers, using clove oil and hand nets. Neopomacentrus bankieri is a planktivorous damselfish primarily found on inshore coral reefs²¹. Thirty-7, 28, and 21 individuals were nerveless from Bay Rock, Middle Reef, and Rattlesnake, respectively (Fig. 1). Sagittal otoliths were extracted from each specimen and processed for interpretation of daily growth increments (DGIs). Sagittae were embedded on the end of a glass slide using Crystalbond 509 and ground to the nucleus using a lapidary grinding wheel (1200 dust). Sagittae were so re-affixed to the slide with the basis surface down and polished from the opposite side to produce a transverse section approximately 150 μm thick. Both sides of the resultant transverse department were and then polished using 9, 3, and 0.3 μm lapping film sequentially, and polishing ceased when optimum clarity was accomplished for interpretation of DGIs. Age was assigned to individuals by counting the DGIs from the core on three independent occasions using a compound microscope and last age was taken equally the hateful of the three counts, provided all counts were inside 10% of the median. Samples with counts >10% of the median were excluded from the assay. Settlement marks (representing settlement onto the reef benthos and metamorphosis from larval to benthic-associated stages) were identified as Type 1 following⁶⁷.

Increment-width profiles were established for each individual using the Leica IM50 software. Increment widths were measured along the longest axis on the ventral side of the otolith. Increment-width profiles were "transition-centred" following⁶⁸.

Relationship between somatic growth and otolith growth

In order to assess the relationship between otolith growth and somatic growth, a series of linear regressions were performed. The following relationships were examined: otolith length to standard length, otolith width to standard length, and post-settlement age to standard length. The residual plots of each model were examined to confirm random distribution of residuals.

Human relationship betwixt abiotic factors and daily growth rate

In order to determine the relationship between abiotic factors and daily growth rate, the daily average for turbidity, temperature, moving ridge action, and tidal range was calculated for each reef, by averaging the measurements from each nephelometer. The presence of a clear settlement marker on the otoliths allowed for a calculation of date of settlement by back computing from their expiry date using daily otolith rings. The otolith increment growth data for each fish was matched upward with the advisable daily boilerplate of the abiotic data. We beginning the abiotic data by 1 day considering of the lag fourth dimension of 24 hours based on previous research which has shown that it takes 24 hours for settlement age pomacentrids to assimilate food and grow⁶⁹. Only the first 14 days post-settlement were used, equally this was the most reliable expanse on the sagittae to historic period²⁶ and the majority of fish (99%) had data spanning this range.

Linear mixed effects modelling fit by restricted maximum likelihood was used to assess the significance of turbidity, temperature, tidal motility, and wave activity in explaining variations in growth³⁸. Since regression-based models can exist sensitive to variables that are correlated, the variance aggrandizement factors (VIF) for all predictor (i.e., abiotic) parameters used in the model were calculated to check for multi-collinearity. The VIFs for all parameters fell well beneath the common threshold value and therefore, no parameters needed to exist excluded on the basis of collinearity^seventy. Private predictors were hateful-centred to facilitate model convergence³⁸. Considering daily growth increments decline with each 24-hour interval, and to ensure the population level trend was not outweighed by individual variability, a standardised daily growth alphabetize for each age was calculated as

where GI_southward is the standardised growth, GI_w, is the private growth increment width, and GI_m is the mean growth increment width within each historic period group³⁴. The linear mixed effects model was generated using the lmer function in the R parcel lme4⁷¹, with turbidity, temperature, tide, and wave action set up equally fixed factors and site and date ready every bit random furnishings. Nosotros assumed a Gaussian distribution and checked the normal distribution of model residuals to confirm goodness of fit. To ensure we were coming together the assumptions of the model, we also checked the plotted residuals to ensure homoscedasticity prior to utilising the results of the model. Final model choice (to obtain the best-fit model while maintaining model parsimony) was decided using Bayesian Data Criterion (BIC)⁷². The significance of each parameter in explaining variation in growth was tested by undertaking Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling with the function MCMCregress in the R packet MCMCpack⁷³. Iii samples were run using non-overlapping, randomly selected seeds. Concatenation lengths were set to 1000 with a burnin of 100. A thinning rate of five was set to reduce autocorrelation. All bondage were combined and chain mixing was tested. Finally, the posterior distribution of the bondage was examined to determine the likelihood that the predictor variables were significantly influencing the variation in growth.

Effect of cumulative impacts on growth

Previous meta-analyses that have examined cumulative impacts have calculated the difference in the effect of individual variables on the response variable and the effect of combined variables, to test for additive, antagonistic, and synergistic furnishings^{16 ,24}. The predicted relationship betwixt each abiotic variable and growth from the linear mixed effects models were used to examine potential cumulative impacts. The 25^thursday and 75^th percentiles were calculated for each abiotic factor and only values below and in a higher place these percentiles were used. The percentile from both variables that was predicted to effect in the highest growth were used every bit the "control condition". To examination for individual effects of each variable, one predictor variable at a time was changed to the reverse quantile (corresponding to predicted minimum growth) while keeping the other one abiding and the corresponding growth data was extracted (individual effects weather condition). Finally, to examination for combined effects, both variables were inverse to the quantile expected to requite the minimum growth (combined effects condition). The differences in growth among the conditions were determined using a one way permutation test based on x,000 Monte-Carlo re-samplings followed by a pairwise permutation examination with an adapted p value generated, both within the "money" packet in R⁷⁴. To decide effect sizes, a Cohen'due south d for each condition compared to the control was calculated⁷⁵. The Cohen'south d value for each "individual effects" condition were combined and compared to the Cohen's d value of the "combined effects" condition. If the values were equal, cumulative impacts would be additive, if the "combined furnishings" value was greater than the combined "individual furnishings" values, cumulative impacts would exist synergistic, only it was less than the combined "private effects" the cumulative impacts would be antagonistic. All statistical analyses were performed with R v.3.2.iii (R Core Squad 2015).

Additional Information

How to cite this article: Wenger, A. Due south. et al. The affect of private and combined abiotic factors on daily otolith growth in a coral reef fish. Sci. Rep. 6, 28875; doi: 10.1038/srep28875 (2016).

Supplementary Textile

Supplementary Data:

Acknowledgments

All collections were approved by the James Cook University Beast Ideals Committee, approval number A1932. This study was funded by a CSIRO Water for a Salubrious State Flagship Fellowship laurels to A.Southward.W. The authors thank K.B., A.G., A.H., T.H., C.One thousand. and T.Due south. for field assistance and J.O. for statistical communication. The authors are grateful to P.R., who lent his nephelometers to the states.

Footnotes

Author Contributions A.S.Westward., J.W. and F.Thou. conceived the experiment; A.S.W. and J.W. conducted the field work; B.T. analysed the otoliths; A.Southward.W. conducted the statistical analyses; A.Due south.W., J.W., B.T. and F.One thousand. wrote the manuscript.

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