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Diel vertical migration bySalpa aspera and its potential for large-scale particulate organic matter transport to the deep-sea 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
In mid-summer 1975 throughout the Western Slope Water of the North Atlantic Ocean, massive numbers ofSalpa aspera performed a diel vertical migration of at least 800 m. This resulted in a movement of 85 to 90% of the total zooplankton biomass out of the upper 500 m during the day. Fecal pellet production and losses from this salp population were estimated to contribute approximately 12 mg C m-2 day-1 to the deep planktonic and benthic populations. If all this organic matter reached the deep-sea floor, it would represent over 100% of the daily deep-sea benthic infauna energy requirements. 相似文献
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Douglas J. McCauley Fiorenza Micheli Hillary S. Young Derek P. Tittensor Daniel R. Brumbaugh Elizabeth M. P. Madin Katherine E. Holmes Jennifer E. Smith Heike K. Lotze Paul A. DeSalles Suzanne N. Arnold Boris Worm 《Marine Biology》2010,157(12):2739-2750
Large animals are severely depleted in many ecosystems, yet we are only beginning to understand the ecological implications of their loss. To empirically measure the short-term effects of removing large animals from an ocean ecosystem, we used exclosures to remove large fish from a near-pristine coral reef at Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific Ocean. We identified a range of effects that followed from the removal of these large fish. These effects were revealed within weeks of their removal. Removing large fish (1) altered the behavior of prey fish; (2) reduced rates of herbivory on certain species of reef algae; (3) had both direct positive (reduced mortality of coral recruits) and indirect negative (through reduced grazing pressure on competitive algae) impacts on recruiting corals; and (4) tended to decrease abundances of small mobile benthic invertebrates. Results of this kind help advance our understanding of the ecological importance of large animals in ecosystems. 相似文献
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Orb web spiders sit at the centre of their approximately circular webs when waiting for prey and so face many of the same
challenges as central-place foragers. Prey value decreases with distance from the hub as a function of prey escape time. The
further from the hub that prey are intercepted, the longer it takes a spider to reach them and the greater chance they have
of escaping. Several species of orb web spiders build vertically elongated ladder-like orb webs against tree trunks, rather
than circular orb webs in the open. As ladder web spiders invest disproportionately more web area further from the hub, it
is expected they will experience reduced prey gain per unit area of web investment compared to spiders that build circular
webs. We developed a model to investigate how building webs in the space-limited microhabitat on tree trunks influences the
optimal size, shape and net prey gain of arboricolous ladder webs. The model suggests that as horizontal space becomes more
limited, optimal web shape becomes more elongated, and optimal web area decreases. This change in web geometry results in
decreased net prey gain compared to webs built without space constraints. However, when space is limited, spiders can achieve
higher net prey gain compared to building typical circular webs in the same limited space. Our model shows how spiders optimise
web investment in sub-optimal conditions and can be used to understand foraging investment trade-offs in other central-place
foragers faced with constrained foraging arenas. 相似文献
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L. P. Madin 《Marine Biology》1974,25(2):143-147
Observations of living salps by SCUBA diving in the Florida Current and Gulf of California (Mexico) indicate that they filter feed with a continuously renewed mucus net. Ninety-one percent of 1420 salps (6 species) examined were feeding in this manner. Particles collected range from about 1 mm to less than 1 μm. Compact fecal pellets appear to contain much undigested material and may carry significant amounts of carbon out of surface waters. 相似文献