PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON CORAL REEF PLANKTON1
- 1 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Limnology and Oceanography
- Vol. 13 (2) , 293-303
- https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1968.13.2.0293
Abstract
Plankton collections near coral reefs were made by hand‐towing nets while swimming and by using a suction device for sampling caves. Plankton in sheltered areas was considerably different from that in nonsheltered areas; some plankton forms maintained position near coral reefs, indicating that the terms planktonic and epibenthic may represent extremes of a behavior continuum. Copepods were observed to swarm and mysids to school on the reef. Mysids and nesting pomacentrids exhibit a loosely developed commensalism. Offshore plankton probably represents a net energy gain to the reef.Keywords
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