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, ...
Learn about the Great Barrier Reef food web and the features of coral reefs. Explore coral reef consumers and producers and understand the Great Barrier food chain. Updated: 11/21/2023 Table of Contents What Are Coral Reefs? The Great Barrier Reef Food Web Producers in the Great Barrier ...
Depth zonation of reef fish is predictable but disrupted on contemporary coral reefs Data from 5,525 in-water reef fish surveys conducted between 1- and 30-m depth reveal predictable depth-dependent zonation across the Pacific Ocean, particularly in the absence of a local human population. By co...
Other cays are found successively to the west toward Cayo Largo del Sur, a small resort island where coral reefs constitute one of the main attractions for tourists. Five sampling sites were selected to encompass depths between 5 to 10 m (sites 2, 3 and 4) or up to 20 m (sites 1 ...
Discover the fascinating food chain of a coral reef. Explore the different types of organisms in the food chain, including producers, primary...
A Newcastle University-led study has demonstrated that predatory reef fish at the top of the food chain depend on resources from the open ocean rather than from the reef itself. Plankton-feeding fishes often dominate the fish assemblage on oceanic coral reefs. Image Credit: Newcastle University. ...
Productivity, disturbance and food web structure at a local spatial scale in experimental container habitats. Revisiting the energetic efficiency hypothesis: body mass, metabolism, and food chain length Of the putative estuarine habitat types, oyster reefs lag behind in our ecological understanding, parti...
while bulk stable isotope analyses allow to describe the global structure of the food web. The combination of these methods allowed us to address five major questions: (i) What are the main sources of organic matter that fuel the food web of the Marquesas coral reefs, and (ii) how is thi...
(a) The rocky intertidal zone of the Pacific Northwest coast is inhabited by a variety of species including starfish, barnacles, limpets, chitons, and mussels. (b) A food web of this community shows that the starfish preys on a variety of invertebrate species. Removal of starfish from this...