Relative impact of a seagrass bed and its adjacent epilithic algal community in consumer diets

By G. Lepoint, Fabienne Nyssen, S. Gobert, P. Dauby, J. Bouquegneau. 2000

192 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. K. Das
2. J. Bouquegneau
3. G. Sarà
4. Paul Lavery
5. Thomas Brey
6. P. Riera
7. François Le Loc'h
8. L. Cardona

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Thomas Brey
2. G. Sarà
3. Fabienne Nyssen
4. M. Graeve
5. P. Riera
6. François Le Loc'h
7. L. Cardona
8. J. Bouquegneau

In Oceanography

1. M. Verlaque
2. Thomas Brey
3. C. Boudouresque
4. Fabienne Nyssen
5. M. Graeve
6. Paul Lavery
7. P. Riera
8. L. Cardona

Citations in the corpus

• Trophic position of Antarctic amphipods — enhanced analysis by a 2-dimensional biomarker assay (2005, methodology): “…can be useful to trace two food sources with clear differences in their δ13C values whereas nitrogen ratios (3‰-4‰ enrichment per trophic transfer) are most frequently used as trophic position indicators (Minagawa & Wada 1984, Hobson & Welch 1992, Michener & Schell 1994, Lepoint et al. 2000).”
• Marine mammals from the southern North Sea: feeding ecology data from δ13C and δ15N measurements (2003, background): “…used to indicate relative contributions to the diet of different potential primary sources in a trophic network, indicating for example the inshore versus offshore, or pelagic versus benthic contribution to food intake (Rau et al. 1992, Hobson et al. 1995, Smith et al. 1996, Lepoint et al. 2000).”
• Trophic relationships in a deep Mediterranean cold-water coral bank (Santa Maria di Leuca, Ionian Sea) (2009, background): “…signal of POM and its temporal dynamics have to be better assessed in our study area. δ13C values obtained for primary consumers (–19.9 < δ13C < –17.3‰; –18.8 < δ13C’ < –15.7‰) indicate a benthic food web typically fuelled by phytoplanktonic production (Lepoint et al. 2000, Carlier et al. 2007).”
• The necromass of the Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadow: fate, role, ecosystem services and vulnerability (2016, background): “In contrast, P. oceanica leaves are generally rarely consumed alone (Verlaque, 1981; Lepoint et al., 2000; Cebrián & Duarte, 2001; Boudouresque et al., 2006).”
• Feeding relationships in Mediterranean bathyal assemblages elucidated by stable nitrogen and carbon isotope data (2001, unknown): “Comparing the results presented here for deep-sea consumers with those from littoral environments (e.g. Lepoint et al. 2000, Pinnegar & Polunin 2000), zooplankton at shallower depths generally exhibited lower δ15N values (~3.5‰) than those of zooplankton from the deep waters (~5.5 to 6.5‰), and…”
• Seagrass and epiphytic algae support nutrition of a fisheries species, Sillago schomburgkii, in adjacent intertidal habitats (2005, unknown): “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).”
• Does transported seagrass provide an important trophic link in unvegetated, nearshore areas? (2005, background): “, 1997), coastal embayment (Marguillier et al., 1997; Lepoint et al., 2000) and continental shelf (Thresher et al.”
• Allochthonous brown algae are the primary food source for consumers in a temperate, coastal environment (2009, background): “However, when the stable isotope ratios of potential food sources do not differ greatly, results are typically ambiguous, making it difficult to provide clear conclusions (e.g. Lepoint et al. 2000, Hyndes & Lavery 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, background): “P. oceanica seems to be a minor organic matter source for consumers in the Revellata Bay (Gulf of Calvi, Corsica, FR) (Dauby, 1989; Lepoint et al., 2000; Pinnegar and Polunin, 2000).”
• A stable isotope approach to the eastern Weddell Sea trophic web: focus on benthic amphipods (2002, background): “Hence we have to deal with the complicated multiple and isotopically contrasting food bases often present in marine environments (Fry 1988; Marguillier et al. 1997; Lepoint et al. 2000).”
• Trophic importance of diatoms in an intertidal Zostera noltii seagrass bed: Evidence from stable isotope and fatty acid analyses (2011, unknown): “The importance of microphytobenthos for grazers was already noticed in the Gulf of Mexico (Moncreiff and Sullivan, 2001), in the Baltic (Jaschinski et al., 2008) and the Mediterranean Seas (Dauby, 1995; Lepoint et al., 2000), but only as a complementary source to epiphytic diatoms.”
• Molluscan assemblages of seagrass-covered and bare intertidal flats on the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, in relation to characteristics of sediment and organic matter (2008, background): “This is shown by stable isotope measurements; benthic invertebrates living in seagrass areas show a distinct algal isotopic signature (Dauby,1989;Dauby,1995;Loneraganet al.,1997;Yamamuro, 1999; Lepoint et al., 2000; Davenport and Bax, 2002).”
• Carbon sources and trophic structure in an eelgrass Zostera marina bed, based on stable isotope and fatty acid analyses (2008, unknown): “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).”
• 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.”
• Delayed ontogenic dietary shift and high levels of omnivory in green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from the NW coast of Africa (2009, background): “However, differences in the isotopic values between the primary producers of oceanic and neritic habitats are usually much larger than those observed among trophic levels ( Lepoint et al. 2000; Vizzini and Mazzola 2003; Cardona et al. 2007), and, therefore, the ratio is often used to discriminate b”