may increase the risk of predation for newly settled butterflyfishes.
Recently, Coker et al. (2009) demonstrated that coral-dwelling
damselfishes were much more conspicuous against the white
background of bleached coral and that these fishes had increased
susceptibility to predation. Moreover, predators were observed to
strike more frequently on bleached habitats, which may have sublethal
effects on growth by influencing foraging behaviour. The
natural rate of predation-induced mortality on juvenile coralfeeding
butterflyfishes is unknown but expected to be very low
while they are small (