Coral reef ecosystems are remarkable for their high productivity in nutrient-poor waters. A
high proportion of primary production is consumed by the dominant herbivore assemblage …

There are some fundamental generalizations that can be made about the biology and
ecology of invertebrates associated with coral reefs. For example, it is widely accepted that …

Herbivory is a key process structuring plant communities in both terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems, with variation in herbivory often being related to shifts between alternate states …

Marine natural products play critical roles in the chemical defense of many marine
organisms and in some cases can influence the community structure of entire ecosystems …

Cyanobacteria have dominated marine environments and have been reef builders on Earth
for more than three million years (myr). Cyanobacteria still play an essential role in modern …

Benthic marine invertebrates sense molecules from other organisms and use these
molecules to find and evaluate the organisms as sources of food. These processes depend …

Benthic cyanobacteria have commonly been a small but integral component of coral reef
ecosystems, fulfilling the critical function of introducing bioavailable nitrogen to an inherently …

Collections of the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya bouillonii from shallow patch reefs in
Apra Harbor, Guam, afforded three hitherto undescribed analogues of the glycosidic …

The Ediacara biota represents the first complex macroscopic organisms in the geological
record, foreshadowing the radiation of eumetazoan animals in the Cambrian explosion …

A focus on nutrition is generally central to the study of trophodynamics and resource
partitioning in terrestrial assemblages. In contrast, the study of trophic diversification in …