Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cyanobacterialmats, aggregated by home.social.
Cissell & McCoy reveal that spatially heterogeneous predation may contribute to asynchronous community extinction, stabilizing cyanobacterial mat metacommunities despite extensive community-scale instability.
Read now ahead of print!
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741527
Some #Caribbean #parrotfishes find benthic #CyanobacterialMats particularly tasty https://oceanbites.org/some-caribbean-parrotfishes-find-benthic-cyanobacterial-mats-particularly-tasty/
Preferential consumption of benthic cyanobacterial mats by Caribbean parrotfishes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-023-02404-5
"this research shows that #parrotfish grazing may help control the overgrowth of #benthic #cyanobacteria mats in #reefs, providing further support that parrotfishes are critical components of #reef ecosystems"