Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Galápagos study identifies keystone predator in a complex food web

05/02/2017 02:57 PM EDT

a triggerfish (blue) with a pencil urchin in his mouth and a hog fish is right there to try to steal it

Years of experiments and careful observation along the shores of the Galápagos Islands have untangled a complex food web of sea lions, fish, urchins and algae, revealing who eats (or doesn't eat) whom and what impact they have on each other.


Full story at https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/05/trophic

Source
Brown University


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