[Coral-List] Detrital vs. algal food chain
Christopher Paul Jury
jurychri at msu.edu
Tue Apr 25 12:52:15 EDT 2006
Is anyone aware of any explicit studies demonstrating what portion of the
total energy available to a reef system or what portion of the total
respiration is usually derived from the detrital food chain vs. the algal
food chain? If not, might anyone have suggestions as to studies that attempt
to quantify the energy available in a detrital food chain on a reef? I can
certainly extrapolate from data on the abundance and composition of reef
detritus, and perhaps rates of consumption by various organisms, but I'd
like to avoid artifacts in the data as much as possible. If anyone could
help steer me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Chris Jury
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