Methods
Location of study
What is Biscayne Bay?
Type of basal resource least observed in high and stable salinity pinfish
What is drift?
This process breaks continuous habitat into smaller, isolated patches, often altering species interactions and ecosystem function
What is habitat fragmentation?
Based on their diet of seagrass and small animals, pinfish are classified as this type of consumer.
What is an omnivore?
This term, abbreviated as SAV, describes vascular plants growing fully below the water’s surface in coastal and estuarine systems
What is Submerged Aquatic Vegetation?
Four measures of configuration to determine habitat fragmentation
What are patch density, landscape division, area-weighted mean perimeter-to-area ratio, and mean radius of gyration?
Best explanation for trophic-level response in fragmented seascapes
What is a combination of seascape type and salinity regime zone?
This term describes an organism's position in a food web relative to producers, consumers, and decomposers?
What is a trophic level?
A funding source of the project (multiple answers acceptable)
What is (any acceptable)...
Florida Education Fund; NOAA; RECOVER Monitoring and Assessment Program; USACE; Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center?
Scientific names of two seagrasses studied
What are Thalassium testudinum and Halodule wrightii?
Two types of salinity regimes studied
What are high/stable and low/variable?
Pinfish hypervolume overlap across continuous and fragmented seascapes in high/stable salinity zones (give a number)
What is 0.44?
In a food web, this type of resource forms the foundation of energy input, typically consisting of primary producers or detritus
What is a basal resource?
Scientific name for pinfish
What is Lagodon rhomboides?
In Thalassia testudinum, the epithet testudinum alludes to this kind of animal
What is a turtle?
Part of fish used for stable isotope analysis
What is the dorsal muscle?
Fragmented seascapes were associated with this shift in trophic niche size and variability of basal resource use.
What is an increase? (niche size became bigger)
This ecological theory predicts that organisms maximize energy gain while minimizing the time and effort spent acquiring food
What is Optimal Foraging Theory?
Scientific classification of a macroscopic free-swimming animal
What is a nekton?
Thalassia testudinum is a key food source for this charming grazer of seafloor
What is a green sea turtle?
Stable isotope analysis (define)
What is the use of isotopic ratios in animal tissue to make inferences about their diet and trophic level?
Trophic response metrics showed this type of non-linear shift at a critical point
What is a threshold response?
In ecology, this term refers to the multi-dimensional space that defines a species’ niche based on environmental and resource variables.
What is a hypervolume?
Number of papers by Santos that Santos cites in this paper
What is 6?
Possible effects of nutrient pulses on SAV (multiple acceptable answers)
What is... (either acceptable)
Shading - increasing turbidity decreases light penetration to benthic layer, leading to lowered production
Increased nutrient availability boosts production