2.1a Food Webs

Types of food webs - interactive, functional, energy flow, connectedness

More advanced types of food web dynamic analyses

Corallivores

  • Parrotfish

  • Bioeroders like mollusks, annelids, flatworms and echinoderms

Herbivorous fishes (functional groups based on feeding behavior)

  • croppers (e.g., surgeonfish: Acanthuridae),

  • browsers (e.g., chubs: Kyphosidae),

  • scrapers

  • excavators (e.g., parrotfish: Labridae)

  • farmers (e.g. damselfish)

Non-fish Herbivores

  • Invertebrates - urchins (see above), crabs, limpets, chitons, and polychaete worms

  • Vertebrates - Sea turtles, dugongs,

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