“…However, it is unlikely that this alone would have caused the decline in abundance of fish, particularly in numbers of settling late stage pelagic juveniles on reefs at Discovery Bay. Certainly, nursery habitats, including the shallow inshore seagrasses, which are important for juvenile reef fishes in the Caribbean (Weinstein and Heck, 1979;Eggleston, 1995;Van der Velde et al, 1992;Nagelkerken et al, 2002), are not lacking. Furthermore, although small-scale settlement patterns can be influenced by microhabitat choice, such habitat effects do not usually influence large-scale variation in recruitment (Tolimieri, 1995;Caselle and Warner, 1996).…”