Food sources

ID: 599

Class: Ecological

Description:

Food sources of octocoral species

Standards:

• Category (cat) default
• Percent (%)

Methodologies:

• Incubations
• Microscopy
• Observation in aquaria
• Observing in situ rates of phytoplankton depletion
• Observing rate of removal of labelled algae
• PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis fingerprinting analysis
• Polyp content examination
• Radiocarbon labelling
• Stable isotope analysis

Editor: Cristina Linares (contact)

Observations

Leptogorgia sarmentosa

• 256710

  Food sources

  Live C (nano eukaryotes) (cat)

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• 256711

  Food sources

  Live C (dinoflagellates) (cat)

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• 256712

  Food sources

  Live C (ciliates) (cat)

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• 256713

  Food sources

  Live C (diatoms) (cat)

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• 256709

  Food sources

  Detrital Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) (cat)

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Litophyton arboreum

• 256628

  Food sources

  Bacterioplankton (cat)

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• 256629

  Food sources

  Particulated Organic Matter (POM) (cat)

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• 256627

  Food sources

  Phytoplankton (cat)

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• 256626

  Food sources

  Zooplankton (cat)

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Melithaea aurantia

• 256689

  Food sources

  Particulated Organic Matter (POM) (cat)

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• 256687

  Food sources

  Phytoplankton (cat)

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• 256686

  Food sources

  Zooplankton (cat)

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• 256688

  Food sources

  Bacterioplankton (cat)

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Melithaea hicksoni

• 256656

  Food sources

  Zooplankton (cat)

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• 256657

  Food sources

  Phytoplankton (cat)

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• 256658

  Food sources

  Bacterioplankton (cat)

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• 256659

  Food sources

  Particulated Organic Matter (POM) (cat)

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Melithaea ochracea

• 256600

  Food sources

  Zooplankton (cat)

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• 256603

  Food sources

  Zooplankton (cat)

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Menella lenzii

• 256695

  Food sources

  Particulated Organic Matter (POM) (cat)

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• 256694

  Food sources

  Bacterioplankton (cat)

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• 256693

  Food sources

  Phytoplankton (cat)

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• 256692

  Food sources

  Zooplankton (cat)

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Menella praelonga

• 256670

  Food sources

  Bacterioplankton (cat)

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• 256668

  Food sources

  Zooplankton (cat)

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