Trophic importance of epiphytic algae in subtropical seagrass beds: evidence from multiple stable isotope analyses

By C. Moncreiff, M. Sullivan. 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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• Stable isotope addition reveals dietary importance of phytoplankton and microphytobenthos to saltmarsh infauna (2008, background): “However, natural abundance stable isotopes are most helpful in systems with few primary producers that each have distinct isotope values (Haines & Montague 1979, Moncreiff & Sullivan 2001).”
• Ontogenetic dietary changes of coral reef fishes in the mangrove-seagrass-reef continuum: stable isotopes and gut-content analysis (2003, background): “Moncreiff & Sullivan (2001) suggested that epiphytic microalgae are of major trophic importance in seagrass beds, and that in some cases they are the primary source of organic matter for higher trophic levels.”
• Seagrass and epiphytic algae support nutrition of a fisheries species, Sillago schomburgkii, in adjacent intertidal habitats (2005, neutral): “Stable isotope studies have shown that fisheries species can rely on seagrass or their epiphytic algae as their ultimate source of nutrition (e.g Lepoint et al. 2000, Moncreiff & Sullivan 2001, Vizzini et al. 2002).”
• Trophic ecology of Sargassum-associated fishes in the Gulf of Mexico determined from stable isotopes and fatty acids (2006, background): “However, food webs located in areas with substantial macroalgae or seagrass biomass often incorporate substantial amounts of organic matter from these producers (kelp: Kaehler et al. 2000, Fredriksen 2003; seagrass: Kharlamenko et al. 2001; epiflora: Moncreiff & Sullivan 2001).”
• Bivalve tissue as a carbon and nitrogen isotope baseline indicator in coastal ecosystems (2008, background): “In marine ecosystems, food web analyses using stable isotopes are increasing (e.g., Moncreiff and Sullivan, 2001; Takai et al., 2002; Fredriksen, 2003).”
• ANTHROPOGENIC ENRICHMENT ALTERS A MARINE BENTHIC FOOD WEB (2005, background): “This com- plex of autotrophs should benefit from increased nutrient availability and have previously been identified as contributing significantly to benthic production within seagrass food webs (Kitting et al. 1984, Moncreiff and Sullivan 2001).”
• Feeding ecology of red snapper Lutjanus campechanus in the northern Gulf of Mexico (2008, background): “The decrease in δ34S values of red snapper reflects the changing sulfur source of the food web, from water column sulfates at small sizes, to an increasing importance of sediment sulfides from the benthos (Moncreiff & Sullivan 2001).”
• The importance of mangroves, mud and sand flats, and seagrass beds as feeding areas for juvenile fishes in Chwaka Bay, Zanzibar: gut content and stable isotope analyses (2006, background): “The low contribution of seagrasses and the high contribution of algae to the food web that was observed by Moncreiff & Sullivan (2001) in the Gulf of Mexico and by Kieckbusch et al. (2004) in Biscayne Bay is another example that seagrass plays a minor role in the food web and that algae are the pr”
• Carbon sources and trophic structure in an eelgrass Zostera marina bed, based on stable isotope and fatty acid analyses (2008, neutral): “Recent stable isotopic studies confirmed the importance of microscopic algae in seagrass food webs (Lepoint et al. 2000, Moncreiff & Sullivan 2001, Connolly et al. 2005).”
• The role and contribution of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile organic matter for secondary consumers as revealed by carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis (2002, methodology): “Stable isotope tracers (δ13C and δ15N) have been used to follow the fluxes of organic matter into food webs and resolve food web structure (Fry, 1988; Dauby, 1989; Goering et al., 1990; Rau et al., 1992; Yamamuro, 1999; Vizzini, 2001; Moncreiff and Sullivan, 2001).”
• Trophic importance of diatoms in an intertidal Zostera noltii seagrass bed: Evidence from stable isotope and fatty acid analyses (2011, neutral): “…et al., 2006; Schaal et al., 2008) but many others have demonstrated that this material is not consumed by most consumers (Kitting et al., 1984; Moncreiff and Sullivan, 2001; Borowitzka et al., 2006; Mateo et al., 2006; Jaschinski et al., 2008), and our observations confirmed this last…”
• Community structure and food web based on stable isotopes (δ15N and δ13C) analysis of a North Eastern Atlantic maerl bed (2006, background): “Many isotopic studies have focused on complex benthic shallow waters ecosystem such as seagrass beds (Lepoint et al., 2000; Kharlmamenko et al., 2001; Moncreiff and Sullivan, 2001) or mangrove (Bouillon et al.”
• Allochthonous brown algae are the primary food source for consumers in a temperate, coastal environment (2009, background): “Stable isotopes (e.g. of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur) are frequently used to identify sources of production, and to delineate trophic pathways (e.g. Peterson & Howarth 1987, Moncreiff & Sullivan 2001).”