HERBIVORY IN ASYMBIOTIC SOFT CORALS

被引：75

作者：

FABRICIUS, KE

BENAYAHU, Y

GENIN, A

机构：

[1] AUSTRALIAN INST MARINE SCI, PMB 3, TOWNSVILLE, QLD 4810, AUSTRALIA

[2] UNIV MUNICH, INST ZOOL, D-80333 MUNICH, GERMANY

[3] TEL AVIV UNIV, DEPT ZOOL, IL-69978 TEL AVIV, ISRAEL

[4] HEBREW UNIV JERUSALEM, H STEINITZ MARINE BIOL LAB, IL-88103 ELAT, ISRAEL

来源：

SCIENCE | 1995年 / 268卷 / 5207期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.268.5207.90

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

A zooxanthellae-free soft coral from the Red Sea feeds almost exclusively on phytoplankton, a mode of nutrition so far unknown for corals. Herbivory was also found in three other azooxanthellate soft corals. in tropical oligotrophic waters, phytoplankton biomass density may be an order of magnitude higher than that of zooplankton. Use of this resource allows these azooxanthellate cnidarians to be highly productive in flow-exposed oligotrophic reef waters.

引用

页码：90 / 92

页数：3

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