Herbivores can drastically alter the morphology of macroalgae by directly consuming tissue and by inflicting structural wounds. Macroalgae host abundant and diverse epibiont communities, the dynamics of which tend to ...
Supported by the Key Program for International S&T Cooperation Projects:Sino-Australian Center for Healthy Coasts(No.2016YFE0101500);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.XDA23050501,XDA19060201);the Taishan Scholars Project to SUN Song。
Seabed photographing has been applied with various underwater camera apparatuses(UCAs)for observations of megabenthic epifauna,which reveals more details than traditional sampling tools do.In this study,we improved a ...
supported by the National Key Technologies Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFC0506101);the China-ASEAN Maritime Fund ‘Monitoring and Conservation of the Coastal Ecosystems in the South China Sea’;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31101876)。
The stable isotope ratios of nitrogen(δ^(15)N) and carbon(δ^(13)C) were applied in this study to analyze sediment carbon sources and primary food sources of epifauna in an oceanic mangrove forest in tropical North S...