Feeding by coral reef mesograzers: Algae or cyanobacteria?

Coral Reefs

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 617-627

  Cruz Rivera, Edwin ^a   Paul, Valerie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN MARINE STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Food choice; Invertebrate epifauna; Marine herbivory; Mesograzers

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPOD; CORAL REEF; CRAB; CYANOBACTERIUM; FOOD PREFERENCE; GASTROPOD; MACROALGA; RED ALGA; SHELTER;

GUAM; MARIANA ISLANDS; MICRONESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ACANTHOPHORA SPICIFERA; ALGAE; AMPHIPODA; ANTHOZOA; BRYOPSIS PENNATA; CYANOBACTERIA; CYMADUSA IMBROGLIO; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ELYSIA RUFESCENS; GASTROPODA; HAMINOEA; HAMINOEA CYMBALUM; INVERTEBRATA; MENAETHIUS MONOCEROS; PARHYALE; RHODOPHYTA; STYLOCHEILUS STRIATUS;

EID: 33750996996     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-006-0134-5     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Banner DM, Banner AH (1982) The alpheid shrimp of Australia. Rec Aust Mus Suppl 34:359-362
2. Barnard JL, Karaman GS (1991) The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Rec Aust Mus Suppl 13:1-866
3. Becerro MA, Goetz G, Paul VJ, Scheuer PJ (2001) Chemical defenses of the sacoglossan mollusk Elysia rufescens and its host alga Bryopsis sp. J Chem Ecol 27:2287-2299
4. Brawley SH (1992) Mesoherbivores. In: John DM, Hawkins SJ, Price J (eds) Plant-animal interactions in the marine benthos. Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp 235-263
5. Capper A, Tibbetts IR, O'Neil JM, Shaw GR (2005) The fate of Lyngbya majuscula toxins in three potential consumers. J Chem Ecol 31:1595-1606
6. Capper A, Cruz-Rivera E, Paul VJ, Tibbetts IR (2006) Chemical deterrence of a marine cyanobacterium against sympatric and non-sympatric consumers. Hydrobiologia 553:319-326
7. Carefoot TH (1987) Aplysia: its biology and ecology. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 25:167-284
8. Carlson C, Hoff PJ (2003) The opisthobranchs of the Mariana Islands. Micronesica 35-36:272-295
9. Conover WJ (1999) Practical nonparametric statistics, 3rd edn. Wiley series in probability and statistics: applied probability and statistics section. Wiley, New York
10. Cruz-Rivera E, Hay ME (2000a) Can quantity replace quality? Food choice, compensatory feeding, and fitness of marine mesograzers. Ecology 81:201-219
11. Cruz-Rivera E, Hay ME (2000b) The effects of diet mixing on consumer fitness: macroalgae, epiphytes, and animal matter as food for marine amphipods. Oecologia 123:252-264
12. Cruz-Rivera E, Hay ME (2001) Macroalgal traits and the feeding and fitness of an herbivorous amphipod: the roles of selectivity, mixing, and compensation. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 218:249-266
13. Cruz-Rivera E, Hay ME (2003) Prey nutritional quality interacts with chemical defenses to affect consumer feeding and fitness. Ecol Monogr 73:483-506
14. Cruz-Rivera E, Paul VJ (2002) Coral reef benthic cyanobacteria as food and refuge: diversity, chemistry and complex interactions. In: Proceedings of 9th international coral reef symposium, vol 1, pp 515-520
15. D'Antonio (1985) Epiphytes on the rocky intertidal red alga Rhodomela larix (Turner) C. Agardh: negative effects on the host and food for herbivores? J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 86:197-218
16. Dennison WC, O'Neil JM, Duffy EJ, Oliver PE, Shaw GR (1999) Blooms of the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula in coastal waters of Queensland, Australia. Bull Inst Oceanogr (Monaco) 19:501-506
17. Duffy JE, Hay ME (1990) Seaweed adaptations to herbivory. BioScience 40:368-375
18. Duffy JE, Hay ME (1994) Herbivore resistance to seaweed chemical defense: the roles of mobility and predation risk. Ecology 75:1304-1319
19. Feingold JS (1988) Ecological studies of a cyanobacterial infection of the sea plume Pseudopterogorgia acerosa (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). In: Proceedings of 6th international coral reef symposium, vol 3, pp 157-162
20. Freeland WJ, Janzen DH (1974) Strategies in herbivory by mammals: the role of plant secondary compounds. Am Nat 108:269-289
21. Ginsburg DW, Paul VJ (2001) Chemical defenses in the sea hare Aplysia parvula: importance of diet and sequestration of algal secondary metabolites. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 215:261-274
22. Hamann MT, Scheuer PJ (1993) Kahalalide F: a bioactive depsipeptide from the sacoglossan mollusk Elysia rufescens and the green alga Bryopsis sp. J Am Chem Soc 115:5825-5826
23. Hamann MT, Otto CS, Scheuer PJ, Dunbar DC (1996) Kahalalides: bioactive peptides from a marine mollusk, Elysia rufescens, and its algal diet Bryopsis sp. J Org Chem 61:6594-6600
24. Hay ME (1992) The role of seaweed chemical defenses in the evolution of feeding specialization and in the mediation of complex interactions. In: Paul VJ (ed) Ecological roles of marine natural products. Comstock Publishing Assoc, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, pp 93-118
25. Hay ME (1997) The ecology and evolution of seaweed-herbivore interactions on coral reefs. Coral Reefs 16:67-76
26. Hay ME, Fenical W (1988) Marine plant-herbivore interactions: the ecology of chemical defense. Ann Rev Ecol Syst 19:111-145
27. Hay ME, Steinberg PD (1992) The chemical ecology of plant-herbivore interactions in marine versus terrestrial communities. In: Rosenthal GA, Berenbaum MR (eds) Herbivores: their interactions with secondary plant metabolites, volume II, ecological and evolutionary processes. Academic, San Diego, pp 372-408
28. Hay ME, Kappel QE, Fenical W (1994) Synergisms in plant defenses against herbivores: interactions of chemistry, calcification, and plant quality. Ecology 75:1714-1726
29. Hirose M, Suzuki H, Yamamoto T (2003) Body color and growth of Elysia ornata (Opisthobranchia: Sacoglossa). Venus the Japanese Journal of Malacology 62:55-64
30. Horgen FD, de los Santos DB, Goetz G, Sakamoto B, Kan Y, Nagai H, Scheuer PJ (2000) A new depsipeptide from the sacoglossan mollusk Elysia ornata and the green alga Bryopsis species. J Nat Prod 63:152-154
31. John DM, Hawkins SJ, Price J (eds) (1992) Plant-animal interactions in the marine benthos. Clarendon Press, Oxford
32. Kaehler S, Kennish R (1996) Summer and winter comparisons in the nutritional value of marine macroalgae from Hong Kong. Bot Mar 39:11-17
33. Kennish R, Williams GA, Lee SY (1996) Algal seasonality on an exposed rocky shore in Hong Kong and the dietary implications for the herbivorous crab Grapsus albolineatus. Mar Biol 125:55-64
34. Lapointe BE (1999) Simultaneous top-down and bottom-up forces control macroalgal blooms on coral reefs (reply to the comment by Hughes et al.). Limnol Oceanogr 44:1586-1592
35. Littler MM, Littler DS, Taylor PR (1995) Selective herbivore increases the biomass of its prey: a chiton-coralline reef building association. Ecology 76:1666-1681
36. Mak YM, Williams GA (1999) Littorinids control high intertidal biofilm abundance on tropical, Hong Kong rocky shores. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 233:81-94
37. Mancinelli G, Rossi L (2001) Indirect, size-dependent effects of crustacean mesograzers on the Rhodophyta Gracilaria verrucosa (Hudson) Papenfuss: evidence from a short-term study in the Lesina Lagoon (Italy). Mar Biol 138:1163-1173
38. McClintock J, Baker W (eds) (2001) Marine chemical ecology. CRC Press, Boca Raton
39. Moore RE (1984) Public health and toxins from marine bluegreen algae. In: Ragelis EP (ed) Seafood toxins. American Chemical Society Symposium Series 262. ACS, Washington, pp 369-376
40. Mukai H, Iijima A (1995) Grazing effects of a gammaridean amphipod, Ampithoe sp., on the seagrass, Syringodium isoetifolium, and epiphytes in a tropical seagrass bed of Fiji. Ecol Res 10:243-257
41. Myers AA (1985) Shallow-water, coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji. Rec Aust Mus Suppl 5:1-143
42. Nagle DG, Paul VJ (1998) Chemical defense of a marine cyanobacterial bloom. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 225:29-38
43. Nagle DG, Camacho FB, Paul VJ (1998) Dietary preferences of the opisthobranch mollusc Stylocheilus longicauda for secondary metabolites produced by the tropical cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula. Mar Biol 132:267-273
44. Neighbors MA, Horn MH (1991) Nutritional quality of macrophytes eaten and not eaten by two temperate-zone herbivorous fishes: a multivariate comparison. Mar Biol 108:471-476
45. Oliver RL, Ganf GG (2000) Freshwater blooms. In: Whitton BA, Potts M (eds) The ecology of cyanobacteria: their diversity in time and space. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 149-194
46. Paerl HW (1988) Nuisance phytoplankton blooms in coastal, estuarine and inland waters. Limnol Oceanogr 33:823-847
47. Paul VJ (ed) (1992) Ecological roles of marine natural products. Cornell University Press, Ithaca
48. Paul VJ, Pennings SC (1991) Diet-derived chemical defenses in the sea hare Stylocheilus longicauda (Quoy et Gaimard 1824). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 151:227-243
49. Paul VJ, Cruz-Rivera E, Thacker RW (2001) Chemical mediation of macroalgal-herbivore interactions: ecological and evolutionary perspectives. In: McClintock J, Baker W (eds) Marine chemical ecology. CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp 227-265
50. Paul VJ, Thacker RW, Banks K, Golubic S (2005) Benthic cyanobacterial bloom impacts the reefs of South Florida (Broward County, USA). Coral Reefs 24:693-697
51. Pennings SC, Paul VJ (1993) Secondary chemistry does not limit dietary range of the specialist sea hare Stylocheilus longicauda (Quoy et Gaimard 1824). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 174:97-113
52. Pennings SC, Masatomo TN, Paul VJ (1993) Selectivity and growth of the generalist herbivore Dolabella auricularia feeding upon complementary resources. Ecology 74:879-890
53. Pereira RC, Cavalcanti DN, Teixeira VL (2000) Effects of secondary metabolites from the tropical Brazilian brown alga Dictyota menstrualis on the amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 205:95-100
54. Perona E, Bonilla I, Mateo P (1998) Epilithic cyanobacterial communities and water quality: an alternative tool for monitoring eutrophication in the Alberche River (Spain). J Appl Phycol 10:183-191
55. Peterson CH, Renaud PE (1989) Analysis of feeding preference experiments. Oecologia 80:82-86
56. Poovachiranon S, Boto KG, Duke NC (1986) Food preference studies and ingestion rate measurements of the mangrove amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis (Dana). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 98:129-140
57. Renaud ML (1976) Observations on the behavior and shell types of Cypraea moneta (Mollusca, Gastropoda) at Enewetak, Marshall Islands. Pac Sci 30:147-158
58. Rogers CN, Steinberg PD, de Nys R (1995) Factors associated with oligophagy in two species of sea hares (Mollusca: Anaspidea). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 192:47-73
59. Rudman WB (1999) Stylocheilus longicauda and Stylocheilus citrina nomenclatural discussion. Sea Slug Forum, http://www.seaslugforum.net/stylnome. htm
60. Rützler K, Santavy DL (1983) The black band disease of Atlantic reef corals, I. Description of the cyanophyte pathogen. PSZNI Mar Ecol 4:301-319
61. Serejo CS (1999) Taxonomy and distribution of the family Hyalidae (Amphipoda, Talitroidea) on the Brazilian coast. In: Schram FR, von Vaupel Klein JC (eds) Crustaceans and the biodiversity crisis. Brill, Leiden, pp 591-616
62. Stachowicz JJ, Hay ME (1996) Facultative mutualism between an herbivorous crab and a coralline alga: advantages of eating noxious seaweeds. Oecologia 105:377-387
63. Stoner AW (1985) Penicillus capitatus: an algal island for macrocrustaceans. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 26:279-287
64. Taylor RB, Steinberg PD (2005) Host use by Australasian seaweed mesograzers in relation to feeding preferences of larger grazers. Ecology 86:2955-2967
65. Thacker RW, Paul VJ (2001) Are benthic cyanobacteria indicators of nutrient enrichment? Relationships between cyanobacterial abundance and environmental factors on the reef flats of Guam. Bull Mar Sci 69:497-508
66. Thacker RW, Ginsburg DW, Paul VJ (2001) Effects of herbivore exclusion and nutrient enrichment on coral reef macroalgae and cyanobacteria. Coral Reefs 19:318-3331
67. Trowbridge CD (1992) Northeastern Pacific opisthobranchs: natural history review, bibliography and prospectus. The Veliger 45:1-24
68. Williams SI, Walker DI (1999) Mesoherbivore-macroalgal interactions: feeding ecology of sacoglossan sea slugs (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) and their effects on their food algae. Oceanogr Mar Biol Annu Rev 37:87-128
69. Wilson R (1987) Substrate selection and decorating behavior in Acanthonyx petiveri related to exoskeleton color (Brachyura, Majidae). Crustaceana 52:135-140
70. Woods CMC, McLay CL (1996) Diet and cryptic colouration of the crab Eurynolambrus australis (Brachyura: Majidae) at Kaikoura, New Zealand. Crustac Res 25:34-43
71. Yamamuro M (1999) Importance of epiphytic cyanobacteria as food sources for heterotrophs in a tropical seagrass bed. Coral Reefs 18:263-271
72. Yonow N (2000) Red Sea Opisthobranchia 4: the orders Cephalaspidea, Anaspidea, Notaspidea and Nudibranchia: Dendronotacea and Aeolidacea. Fauna of Arabia 18:87-131