The Fish Connection: A Trophic Link Between Planktonic and Rocky Reef Communities?
- 9 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 214 (4517) , 204-205
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.214.4517.204
Abstract
The blacksmith (Chromis punctipinnis), an abundant pomacentrid fish off southern California, regularly forages on zooplankton during the day and shelters in rocky reefs at night. This behavioral pattern results in the importation of 8 grams of carbon per square meter per year, deposited as feces in the nocturnal shelter. Since blacksmiths regularly return to the same shelters, this represents a transport of extrinsic organic carbon to the reef which is predictable in time and space.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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