The Coral Reef Food Web – like those of all highly diverse biological communities – is exceedingly complex.
Hertog. Detailed food web networks of three Greater Antillean Coral Reef systems: The Cayman Islands, Cuba, and Jamaica. Dataset Papers in Ecology, 2013, 2013.H. R. Roopnarine PD. Data from: Detailed food web net- works of three Greater Antillean Coral Reef systems: The Cayman Islands, ...
Diet-tissue discrimination factors determined from paired tissue and gut samples taken from 152 individuals from 26 fish species at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia demonstrate a large amount of variability around constant values. While caution is necessary in using gut contents to represent diet due ...
The Venn diagram in Figure 7 illustrates the classes of OTUs unique to inshore versus surface offshore versus back reef samples (see Figure 1 for locations), and clearly emphasizes that offshore samples have a larger pool of microbial eukaryotes not found inshore (378 OTUs) than the number ...
We studied the food web structure and functioning of a coral reef ecosystem in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, characterized by low coral cover, high sea surface temperature and meso- to eutrophic waters. The Marquesas constitute a relevant ecosystem to understand the functioning of low div...
Climate change impact syntheses, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, consistently assert that limiting global warming to 1.5 °C is unlikely to safeguard most of the world’s coral reefs. This prognosis is primarily based o
If, instead of the island in the diagram, the shore of a continent fringed by a reef had subsided, a great barrier-reef, like that on the north-east coast of Australia, would have necessarily resulted; and it would have been separated from the main land by a deep-water channel, broad...
food source, leaves. The algae also provide the coral with their usual vibrant color, which is why the animals turn white, or become bleached, when the algae leave.While the current event is widespread, its severity and depth vary throughout the surveyed parts of the reef system. The...
A habitat’s structural complexity is a key determinant of the recruitment and composition of associated communities. While the influence of the physical structure of corals on coral reef fish recruitment is well studied, the significance of other benthic components, like macroalgae, remains unclear. ...
(R2= 0.91). Seagrass or reef flat sources contributed a minimum of 14–78 % to the diet ofDiagramma labiosum, a species found in higher abundance on reefs near seagrass beds, but variation in diet among reefs was unrelated to seascape structure. Seagrass or reef flat sources also ...