Particle removal by coral reef communities: picoplankton is a major source of nitrogen

By M. Ribes, R. Coma, Marlin J. Atkinson, R. Kinzie. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography, Pollution

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Importance of a micro-diet for scleractinian corals (2004, background): “It was shown that Leptogorgia sarmentosa and Paramuricea clavata did not significantly capture prey smaller than nanoeukaryotes and that detrital particulate organic carbon constituted the bulk of the animals’ diet (Ribes et al. 2003).”
Particulate nutrient fluxes over a fringing coral reef: relevant scales of phytoplankton production and mechanisms of supply (2010, background): “Finally, for the case where particle uptake by the benthos is physically controlled (i.e. mass transfer limited, Sanford & Crawford 2000; Ribes et al. 2003), uptake is often related to the water column concentration C as m = SC, where S is a particle uptake coefficient S (m s–1).”
Sponges and ascidians control removal of particulate organic nitrogen from coral reef water (2005, background): “…bacteria was 23 3 105 cells ml21, Synechococcus sp. was 2.6 3 105 cells ml21, picoeukaryotes was 15 3 103 cells ml21, nanoeukaryotes 200 cells ml21, microplankton (ciliates, diatoms, and dinoflagellates) were a very small proportion of the particles, with only 10–30 cell ml21 (Ribes et al. 2003).”
Artificial reefs do increase secondary biomass production: mechanisms evidenced by stable isotopes (2014, background): “In oligotrophic Mediterran- ean and tropical ecosystems, nanophytoplankton dominates and could be more easily retained by filter feeders, as they mainly retain the predominant fraction of POM (Coma et al. 2001, Grégori et al. 2001, Ribes et al. 2003).”
Intense benthic grazing of phytoplankton in a coral reef (2009, background): “The use of a large, recirculating flume allowed Atkinson et al. (reviewed in Atkinson and Falter 2003) to measure the rates of nutrient uptake and plankton grazing (Ribes et al. 2003, 2005; Ribes and Atkinson 2007) by artificial assemblages of benthic fauna collected at the coral reef in Kaneohe Bay”