Abyssal deposit feeders are secondary consumers of detritus and rely on nutrition derived from microbial communities in their guts

Trophic ecology of detrital-based food webs is still poorly understood. Abyssal plains depend entirely on detritus and are among the most understudied ecosystems, with deposit feeders dominating megafaunal communities. We used compound-specific stable isotope ratios of amino acids (CSIA-AA) to estim...

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Published in:Sci Rep
Main Authors: Romero-Romero, Sonia, Miller, Elizabeth C., Black, Jesse A., Popp, Brian N., Drazen, Jeffrey C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8206261/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34131174
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91927-4
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