[Coral-List] Looking for reviews on the energy flow through coral reef

Rodrigo.Bustamante at csiro.au Rodrigo.Bustamante at csiro.au
Mon Dec 8 19:04:07 EST 2008


 Michel,

You can also look at the works done in the model-world of Ecopath. 

There are a number of trophic models that actually depict biomass~energy flows through the defined ecosystem. Each model is normally published so a few pubs to look at, but also each model have their metadata of some of their thermodynmic properties and indexes.

Look at them at the Ecopath website at,
http://www.ecopath.org/index.php?name=Models&sub=Models&m_terms=coral&m_EEZ=0&m_LME=0&m_FAO=0&m_fYearPub=&m_tYearPub=&m_N=&m_S=&m_E=&m_W=&m_Or=0&page=1&orderby=&m_asc=

Rodrigo.
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Today's Topics:

   1. Fish and other ID books (Michael Harvey)
   2. Looking for reviews on the energy flow through coral	reef
      ecosystems (Michael Arvedlund)
   3. Re: Looking for reviews on the energy flow through	coral reef
      ecosystems (William Allison)
   4. Re: Looking for reviews on the energy flow through coral reef
      ecosystems (John Ogden)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:44:50 -0800
From: Michael Harvey <mharvey1 at shaw.ca>
Subject: [Coral-List] Fish and other ID books
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Thank you all who generously replied to my question for recommended identification books for tropical fish and inverts. The following were
suggested:

Paul Humann and Ned Deloach. Caribbean fish, coral, and invertebrate identification books (3 separate volumes). (The 2nd edition of the fish book has more pics and descriptions of juvenile stages.)

Allen, Steene & Humann. Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific
(ISBN-10: 1878348361). (with photos rather than pictures).

The above are available at the REEF online store: 
http://www.reef.org/catalog/79/survey_materials_books

Stokes, F. T., 1980, Handguide to Coral Reef Fishes of the Caribbean.

Peterson Field Guides: Atlantic Coast Fishes (ISBN #0-395-97515-8)

For the Indian Ocean:

John E. Randall.  Diver's Guide to Fishes of Maldives.

Rudie H. Kuiter, 2001. Photo Guide to Fishes of the Maldives (Springfield Atoll Editions).

Debelius (1993), and Anderson (2005) - Reef Fishes of the Maldives.

Helmut Debelius. Indian Ocean Reef Guide: Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand, South Africa. (He also does corals, nudibranchs, sharks, crustacea).

Gerald R. Allen. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east
Asia: A Field Guide for Anglers and Divers.

Neville Coleman. A Guide to the Marine Life of the Maldives.

Gerald R. Allen. Indo Pacific Coral Reef Guide.

Andrea & Antonella Ferrari. A diver's guide to Reef Life. (1200 species photographed).

Richmond, M.D. (ed.) (2002) A Field Guide to the Seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean Islands. Sida/SAREC ? UDSM. pp. 461. 
[this is an all-taxa biology and taxonomy text as much as an ident. book]

Lieske, E. and Myers, R. (2001, later edition available). Coral Reef Fishes of the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean. Collins pocket guide, London. 
pp. 400. (Illustrated rather than photos but it has more fish than most of the others.)

Randall, J.E. Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific: New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands.

Gerry Allen and Roger Steene. Reef Fishes of the Indian Ocean: A Pictorial Guide to the Common Reef Fishes of the Indian Ocean (Pacific Marine Fishes)..

Robert F. Myers. Micronesian Reef Fishes, 2nd edition (hard cover).

Smith's Sea Fishes edited by Margaret Smith and Phil Heemstra. It is a comprehensive compilation of the shallow water (-200 m) fish species of the Western Indian Ocean.

A fish identification manual is in prep. for the fishes of the Bay of Bengal (Western Indian Ocean). It will be out by mid December 08.

For learning about reefs:

Reef Life by Tackett & Tackett
The Coral Reef (Angelo Mojetta)
Corals - Indo Pacific Field Guide (Erhardt & Knop) Reef by scubazoo (Dorling Kindersley)

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Michael Harvey
Victoria, Canada


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Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:31:40 +0100
From: "Michael Arvedlund" <arvedlund at speedpost.net>
Subject: [Coral-List] Looking for reviews on the energy flow through
	coral	reef ecosystems
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Dear everybody,

I am currently finalizing a new ecology book for Danish college
students, in collaboration with a major Danish student book publisher.

For the first time ever, there will be a major chapter on the ecology of
tropical coral reefs.

However, I find it a bit difficult to obtain recent reviews on the
energy flow through the trophic levels of a tropical shallow coral reef
ecosystem. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places.

Would anyone be able to help me, please? Recent diagrams, drawings and
relevant web pages are also of very high interests.

Looking forward to hear from you on this matter.

Please contact me via my e-mail: arvedlund at speedpost.net

Cheers, Mike


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E-Mail:       arvedlund at speedpost.net
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Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 08:12:30 -0500
From: "William Allison" <allison.billiam at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Looking for reviews on the energy flow
	through	coral reef ecosystems
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These two older items come to mind.
Odum & Odum, 1955, Ecol Monogr 25(3),291 (also material and perhaps a
chapter in one of his ecology texts)
Sororkin, YI, 1990 (Ecosystems of the World, p. 401, Dubinsky (ed))


On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Michael Arvedlund
<arvedlund at speedpost.net>wrote:

> Dear everybody,
>
> I am currently finalizing a new ecology book for Danish college
> students, in collaboration with a major Danish student book publisher.
>
> For the first time ever, there will be a major chapter on the ecology of
> tropical coral reefs.
>
> However, I find it a bit difficult to obtain recent reviews on the
> energy flow through the trophic levels of a tropical shallow coral reef
> ecosystem. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places.
>
> Would anyone be able to help me, please? Recent diagrams, drawings and
> relevant web pages are also of very high interests.
>
> Looking forward to hear from you on this matter.
>
> Please contact me via my e-mail: arvedlund at speedpost.net
>
> Cheers, Mike
>
>
> ***************************************************
> Michael Arvedlund MSc PhD CICS
> Reef Consultants
> R?dmand Steins All? 16A, 2-208
> 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark
>
> E-Mail:       arvedlund at speedpost.net
> Skype:       Michael Arvedlund
> Homepage: http://www.bricksite.com/reefconsultants
> Telephone:  (+45)-7741-4696
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:50:46 -0500
From: John Ogden <jogden at marine.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Looking for reviews on the energy flow
	through coral reef ecosystems
To: Michael Arvedlund <arvedlund at speedpost.net>
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Hi Mike:

None of this is recent, but I suggest looking at Caroline Roger's 
publications on reef metabolism in Puerto Rico which took off from the 
Odum and Odum (1955) upstream-downstream work on Eniwetak.  Also check 
the SYMBIOS expedition which re-occupied the Odum's transect in 1971.  I 
recall a paper much later in BioScience.  Finally and most obscurely, 
there was an ecosystem project planning effort (CITRE, I forget the 
acronym) at Glover's Reef, Belize in the early 1970s that failed as a 
proposal to NSF, but resulted in an interesting report which somebody on 
the list may have access to.

Cheers.

Michael Arvedlund wrote:
> Dear everybody,
>
> I am currently finalizing a new ecology book for Danish college
> students, in collaboration with a major Danish student book publisher.
>
> For the first time ever, there will be a major chapter on the ecology of
> tropical coral reefs.
>
> However, I find it a bit difficult to obtain recent reviews on the
> energy flow through the trophic levels of a tropical shallow coral reef
> ecosystem. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places.
>
> Would anyone be able to help me, please? Recent diagrams, drawings and
> relevant web pages are also of very high interests.
>
> Looking forward to hear from you on this matter.
>
> Please contact me via my e-mail: arvedlund at speedpost.net
>
> Cheers, Mike
>
>
> ***************************************************
> Michael Arvedlund MSc PhD CICS
> Reef Consultants
> R?dmand Steins All? 16A, 2-208
> 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark
>
> E-Mail:       arvedlund at speedpost.net
> Skype:       Michael Arvedlund
> Homepage: http://www.bricksite.com/reefconsultants
> Telephone:  (+45)-7741-4696
>
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