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Suspension feeders and energy flow through reefs

Australian Ocean Data Network
Humphries, Stuart (Point of contact) Luke Edwards (Distributes) School of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences, University of Hull (Associated with) iVEC (Associated with)
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Suspension feeders - animals that capture food particles from the water - exert a major influence on the aquatic environment, and most groups of animals, from vertebrates to protozoa, have some members for whom suspension feeding is their major means of obtaining nutrients.
Due to their impact on plankton populations and suspended organic materials suspension feeders influence food availability and energy transfer in most marine and freshwater habitats. Many suspension feeders, such as bivalve molluscs, sponges and corals, are of importance commercially, in terms of aquaculture, exploitation of wild stocks, and, increasingly, tourism for coral reef ecosystems.
An understanding of the implications of environmental change for optimal habitat ranges, growth rates and potential future exploitation of suspension-feeding organisms requires the ability to predict responses of these organisms to changes in physical factors such as water flow, temperature and particle loads.

Research projects in this area include:

Flow-mediated responses to environmental change
Viscosity effects on ciliary feeding
Heterotrophy in reef-building corals
Energy flow across coral reefs

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: unknown
Statement: Original record compiled for the Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI), Project 3.8, 2008. Originally sourced from several databases compiled by WA DEC Marine Science Branch of projects relevant to the marine parks of WA. Variable metadata information was available.

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Stuart Humphries: The University of Sheffield, UK
Credit
The University of Western Australia (UWA)

Modified: 06 2008

Data time period: 2005-01-01 to 2009-07-01

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Biomechanics | COASTAL PROCESSES | Coral Reefs | EARTH SCIENCE | Energy Flow | Filter Feeders | Fluid Dynamics | OCEANS | Particle Capture | Suspension Feeders | biota | oceans |

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