herbivorous fish
A coral algal phase shift in Mesoamerica not driven by changes in herbivorous fish abundance
... of herbivorous fish (scarids and acanthurids) and the total biomass density of these two groups were relatively constant over the same period, while tourism increased dramatically, as indicated by cruise ...
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Size-Selectivity of Trammel Nets for Two Herbivorous Fish Species in Coral Reef Fisheries of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
... Based on our results, and considering the fact that S. rivulatus in the Red Sea have an isometric growth compared to that of the same species in the Mediterranean, the 62 mm inner-panel mesh size will be the optimum to ...
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Cross-shelf benthic community structure on the Great Barrier Reef: relationships between macroalgal cover and herbivore biomass
... roving herbivorous fish densities were quantified across 3 spatial scales: lati- tude, continental shelf position and within-reef ...orous fish biomass, but no relationship was found between ...
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Evaluation of algal regulation by herbivorous fishes on Caribbean coral reefs
... of herbivorous fishes in promoting reef recovery and resilience is likely to depend not only on their feeding preferences but also on their numerical abundance and on their ...biomass. Fish abundance and ...
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An ecological model of the artificial ecosystem (northern Hangzhou Bay, China): analysis of ecosystem structure and fishing impacts
... and herbivorous fish, whereas 88% of the flow of carnivorous zooplankton occurred at trophic level ...of fish groups occurred at IV and ...2). Herbivorous fish alone accounted for 43.5% ...
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Natural bounds on herbivorous coral reef fishes
... on herbivorous fish assemblages; the fore reef is the most comparable reef habitat present across all ...all fish species present within their survey area ...
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Functional niche partitioning in herbivorous coral reef fishes
... used by other herbivorous fish species (Hoey et al. 2013; Choat et al. 2002), only a few reef fishes feed on cyanobacteria, which are the main food source for S. vulpinus. Thus, the latter might be more ...
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Macroalgal browsing on a heavily degraded, urbanized equatorial reef system
... To identify the herbivorous fish species responsible for removing S. ilicifolium biomass, small stationary underwater video cameras (GoPro) were used to record the daily feeding activity on two uncaged ...
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Trophic and benthic responses to no-take marine reserve protection in the Philippines
... on fish abundance and benthic cover (Russ 2002, Edgar et ...influence fish abundance on coral reefs ...of herbivorous fish populations was likely to be a direct effect of reserve protection, ...
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Macroalgal grazing selectivity among herbivorous coral reef fishes
... individual herbivorous fish species in coral reef ecosystem ...an herbivorous reef fish assemblage by assessing the feeding selectivity of fishes on ...6 herbivorous reef fish ...
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Cascading predator effects in a Fijian coral reef ecosystem
... nominally herbivorous fish that fed from either ...each fish species in each video so as to calculate species-specific browsing rates (bites per hour) for each location and tide (n = ...
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Biophysical ecology of the white footed sportive lemur (Lepilemur leucopus) in southern Madagascar
... Speakman 2009). Variations in body size, behaviour and life history among normothermic Strepsirrhine species have also been linked to limitations in resource availability and seasonality (Ganzhorn et al. 2003). For ...
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Effects of herbivorous birds on intertidal seagrass beds in the northern Wadden Sea
... Due to the mild temperatures in winter 1997/98, our experimental results were not distorted by erosion ow- ing to ice scour. Therefore, the effect by herbivorous birds on the Z. noltii beds seems to be responsible ...
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Induced and constitutive responses of digestive enzymes to plant toxins in an herbivorous mammal
... herbivore. Herbivorous insects employ several physiological responses to overcome the anti-nutritive effects of ...an herbivorous vertebrate responds significantly to dietary PSCs, which may be important ...
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Impact of The Cultivation Systems And Straw on The Soil Surface on The Edaphic Entomofauna In Common Bean Crops
... detritivorous, herbivorous and predatory arthropods richness were higher when the common bean was cultivated in soil with ...of herbivorous arthropods and predators because they serve as a shelter and make ...
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Population regulation and diversity-stability relationships in ecological time-series
... surface of the reef. These three functional groups constitute the most important grazers of macroalgae on coral reefs (Sammarco and Carleton 1981, Choat 1991, McClanahan et al. 2003, Mumby et al. 2006). Moreover, ...
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Plant-mediated interactions between the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana, insect herbivores and a plant pathogen
... Appendix D Effects of Beauveria bassiana colonisation on herbivorous insects, a plant pathogen and levels of jasmonic acid, salicylic acid and glucosinolate in Beauveria bass[r] ...
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Transintestinal Acetate Transport in a Herbivorous Teleost: Anion Exchange at the Basolateral Membrane
... A transintestinal transport model for volatile fatty acids is proposed in which specific anion antiporters, located on the brush-border and basolateral poles of the cell, exchange lumina[r] ...
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Sea urchins, macroalgae and coral reef decline: a functional evaluation of an intact reef system, Ningaloo, Western Australia
... quantify fish abun- dance and biomass in each habitat at each of the 5 ...the fish observer to avoid negative impacts on fishes as a result of diver presence (Fulton et ...count fish that were ...
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Parallel antiport mechanisms for Na+ and Cl transport in herbivorous teleost intestine
... The effect of chloride, potassium chloride and furosemide on the uptake of sodium into brush border membrane vesicles from tilapia upper intestine.. The vesicles contained 200mmoll~' tet[r] ...
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