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Demographic plasticity facilitates ecological and economic resilience in a commercially important reef fish

Name: Demographic plasticity facilitates ecological and economic resilience in a commercially important reef fish
Published: 2026

Australian Institute of Marine Science

Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

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This data is associated with the Journal of Animal Ecology publication detailing age-based life-history characteristics of the bluespine unicornfish Naso unicornis across eleven populations spanning the Indo-Pacific. It contains age, sex, body size, and reproductive information for over 2500 specimens from the eleven locations, as well as increment width summaries for over 100 specimens from four locations.

This represents one of the largest standardized age-based datasets of a coral reef fish from multiple distant locations spanning biogeographic scales. Collection locations are detailed in the data and collections were made over several decades (although for individual locations data were generally collected within a one-year timeframe).

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Statement: This data is also publicly available through the Dryad database (https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.v2g567n). All data were collected by authors of the associated scientific manuscript in the Journal of Animal Ecology: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13095 Data from the Chagos Archipelago (locations explicit in database) were contributed by the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

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Meekan, M (AIMS)

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Taylor, B (AIMS)

Modified: 18 09 2026

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doi : https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.v2g567n DOI Link

Taylor BM, Choat JH, DeMartini EE, Hoey AS, Marshell A, Priest MA, Rhodes KL, Meekan MG (2019) Demographic plasticity facilitates ecological and economic resilience in a commercially important reef fish. Journal of Animal Ecology 88:1888-1900

local : 11068/15283

Data are available on Dryad: Taylor, Brett M et al. (2019), Data from: Demographic plasticity facilitates ecological and economic resilience in a commercially important reef fish, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.v2g567n

doi : https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.v2g567n DOI Link

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