[Coral-List] pelagic carbon dominant source for reef predatory fish

[Douglas Fenner]

I don't see any response to this yet.

Does that mean nobody thinks this is of any importance?  Or that nobody
knows about this??  I didn't see any reference to anybody by the name
"Chartock" in the reference list of this paper.  If it is important, should
they have cited it??  Do we have professional amnesia??

I tried to find this article based on just the author name, the year, and a
few words that might indicate what the article is about.  Google Scholar
didn't find it (there isn't much that Google Scholar misses), but gave me a
lead to a PhD thesis.  A search of the library at the University the PhD
was done in did not turn up an online copy.

    The thesis was:

        CHARTOCK, M. A. 1972. The role of detritus in a tropical marine
ecosystem: Niche separation in congeneric ophiuroids, food partitioning in
cryptic invertebrates, and herbivore detritus production at Eniwetok,
Marshall Islands. Ph.D. thesis, Univ. S. Calif. 177 p.

Anybody have any better leads?    Cheers, Doug

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 1:28 PM Risk, Michael <riskmj at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

> That work goes nicely with Mike Chartock's seminal research 1972 on
> Eniwetak, in which he showed that lagoon infauna were nourished by the poop
> from herds of grazing fishes that came in on the tide like lawnmowers
> eating the algae and then hanging out in the lagoon. I'm sure all the
> -listers know this work...it was, afaik, the first demonstration of
> largescale energy transfer in reef systems.
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> fish
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> Offshore pelagic subsidies dominate carbon inputs to coral reef predators
>
> https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/8/eabf3792
>
> Cheers,  Doug
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