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 ...
“I initially sent it out to 40 of my colleagues,” he explained. “After 24 hours there were 600 scientists who signed it. Within two days, there were 1,200. There were so many people signing that our website crashed a couple of times.” ...
On the Web: NASA - What is a Coral Reef? (Feb. 01, 2025) See all related content coral reef, ridge or hummock formed in shallow ocean areas by algae and the calcareous skeletons of certain coelenterates, of which coral polyps are the most important. A coral reef may grow into a ...
which impacts reef structure and diversity [3]. Severe impacts on coral reefs are concerning as these ecosystems host vast biodiversity and provide significant ecosystem services to humanity (e.g. coastal protection, food security, and new medicines), and other significant terrestrial and pelagic ocea...
The dramatic loss of living coral and reef-associated populations caused by human-induced climate change4,5 threatens the integrity of coral reef ecosystems worldwide. Around human population centres, the impacts of climate change are typically compounded by multiple other stressors, such as ...
Site fidelity of herbivorous fishes was surprisingly high, with < 7% utilizing adjacent control reefs. This may be partly explained because this marine reserve is a patch reef surrounded by relatively deep water (>10 m), which forms a natural boundary that reef fishes seldom cross51,52. ...
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 ecos
islands. There are many details in the data that cannot be explained by fishing alone. That is to be expected, reef fish populations are affected by a wide variety of factors such as habitat, biogeographic location, and food sources. However, in each of the archipelagos, large fish were ...