Science. 1994 Feb 18;263(5149):935-9. doi: 10.1126/science.263.5149.935.
A long-term, large-scale empirical test of the recruitment limitation hypothesis was done by sampling fish populations from the southern Great Barrier Reef after having monitored their recruitment histories for 9 years. After adjustment for demographic differences, recruitment patterns explained over 90 percent of the spatial variation in abundance of a common damselfish among seven coral reefs. The age structures from individual reefs also preserved major temporal variations in the recruitment signal over at least 10 years. Abundance and demography of this small fish at these spatial and temporal scales can be explained almost entirely as variable recruitment interacting with density-independent mortality.
对招聘限制假说进行了一项长期的、大规模的实证检验，方法是在监测了 9 年鱼类的招募历史后，从大堡礁南部采集鱼类种群。在对人口统计学差异进行调整后，招募模式解释了 7 个珊瑚礁中一种常见的雀鲷丰度的 90%以上的空间变化。个别珊瑚礁的年龄结构也至少在 10 年内保存了招募信号的主要时间变化。这种小鱼在这些时空尺度上的丰度和种群动态几乎可以完全解释为可变的招募与密度无关的死亡率相互作用的结果。
