Dietary analysis of the marine Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Iberian Peninsula

JM Guerra-García, JMT De Figueroa… - Journal of Sea …, 2014 - Elsevier
The gut contents of 2982 specimens of 33 amphipod families, 71 genera and 149 species
were examined, representing a high percentage of amphipod diversity in the Iberian …

Top‐down control of epifauna by fishes enhances seagrass production

LS Lewis, TW Anderson - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Predators can influence the structure and function of ecosystems by altering the composition
or behavior of herbivore communities. Overexploitation of predators, therefore, may lead to …

Scyphozoan jellyfish provide short-term reproductive habitat for hyperiid amphipods in a temperate near-shore environment

NEC Fleming, C Harrod, DC Griffin, J Newton… - Marine Ecology …, 2014 - int-res.com
Hyperiid amphipods (Order Amphipoda, Suborder Hyperiidea) are known to infest
gelatinous zooplankton. However, the temporal backdrop to these associations is less clear …

Dominant amphipods of Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows display considerable trophic diversity

LN Michel, P Dauby, S Gobert, M Graeve… - Marine …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Gut content examination and trophic markers (fatty acids, stable isotopes of C and N) were
combined to delineate the diet of the dominant species of amphipods from Mediterranean …

Phylogeny as a proxy for ecology in seagrass amphipods: which traits are most conserved?

RJ Best, JJ Stachowicz - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Increasingly, studies of community assembly and ecosystem function combine trait data and
phylogenetic relationships to gain novel insight into the ecological and evolutionary …

Richness of primary producers and consumer abundance mediate epiphyte loads in a tropical seagrass system

L Hoffmann, W Edwards, PH York, MA Rasheed - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Consumer communities play an important role in maintaining ecosystem structure and
function. In seagrass systems, algal regulation by mesograzers provides a critical …

[HTML][HTML] Trophic importance of the seagrass Halophila ovalis in the food web of a Hepu seagrass bed and adjacent waters, Beihai, China

J Lin, X Liu, T Lai, B He, J Du, X Zheng - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
The current paradigm emphasizes the trophic role of epiphytic algae in seagrass-based food
webs. However, a growing body of literature demonstrates that grazers would directly cause …

Resource utilisation and trophic niche overlap of coralline intertidal benthic amphipods: an isotopic perspective

T Srinivas, S Sukumaran, K Ramesh Babu - Environmental Science and …, 2024 - Springer
Benthic amphipod feeding groups are a well-established trophic classification that is mostly
based on field observations and laboratory tests and are used in ecological studies to …

Functional uniformity underlies the common spatial structure of macrofaunal assemblages in intertidal seagrass beds

RSK Barnes, IW Hendy - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Previous work has shown that the intertidal seagrass macrobenthos at three geographically
and ecologically disparate localities (in the north-east Atlantic, south-west Indian and south …

Do studies of functional groups give more insight to amphipod biodiversity?

MB Scipione - Crustaceana, 2013 - brill.com
Amphipod crustaceans are able to colonise different micro-habitats of coastal marine
benthos due to a multiplicity of trophic and morpho-functional adaptations, and may be …