Mitsuhiko Sano

TL;DR: The gut contents of 53 fish species, collected in an Enhauls acoroides-dominated bed at Iriomote Island, southern Japan, were examined and showed that the seagrass fish assemblage comprised seven feeding guilds, with small-crustacean feeders being the most abundantly represented.

TL;DR: Important food items of seagrass bed fishes, such as harpacticoid copepods, gammaridean amphipods, errant polychaetes, and tanaids, were abundant in the seagRass bed, the density of each being greater than in the other two habitats.

TL;DR: Stomach content and stable isotope analyses of L. fulvus showed that specimens from mangroves fed on mangrove-associated prey, whereas those from the coral reef took coral reef- associated prey, indicating that the species undergoes ontogenetic changes in resource use from theMangroves to the coral Reef, i.e. coral reef individuals did not migrate to the mangroaves to feed.

TL;DR: Cluster and ordination analyses based on the number of individuals of each species demonstrated that the fish assemblage structure differed among the three habitats in each season, but with some overlaps.

TL;DR: To clarify the feeding habits of seagrass fishes, the gut contents of 31 fish species collected in aZostera marina bed at Aburatsubo central Japan, were examined, showing small-crustacean feeders and planktonic-animal feeders were the most abundantly represented, including juveniles of several species, which, when adult, transferred to other feeding guilds.