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Trophic ecology of benthic marine invertebrates with bi-phasic life cycles: What are we still missing?
Calado, R.; Leal, M.C. (2015). Trophic ecology of benthic marine invertebrates with bi-phasic life cycles: What are we still missing?, in: Curry, B.E. (Ed.) Adv. Mar. Biol. 71. Advances in Marine Biology, 71: pp. 1-70. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.amb.2015.07.001
In: Curry, B.E. (Ed.) (2015). Adv. Mar. Biol. 71. Advances in Marine Biology, 71. Academic Press: London. ISBN 978-0-12-803305-0. XXI, 166 pp., more
In: Advances in Marine Biology. Academic Press: London, New York. ISSN 0065-2881; e-ISSN 2162-5875, more
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Keywords
    Biological phenomena > Metamorphosis
    Life history
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Trophic interactions; Phenotypic plasticity; Carry-over effects; Maternal effects

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  • Calado, R.
  • Leal, M.C.

Abstract
    The study of trophic ecology of benthic marine invertebrates with bi-phasic life cycles is critical to understand the mechanisms shaping population dynamics. Moreover, global climate change is impacting the marine environment at an unprecedented level, which promotes trophic mismatches that affect the phenology of these species and, ultimately, act as drivers of ecological and evolutionary change. Assessing the trophic ecology of marine invertebrates is critical to understanding maternal investment, larval survival to metamorphosis, post-metamorphic performance, resource partitioning and trophic cascades. Tools already available to assess the trophic ecology of marine invertebrates, including visual observation, gut content analysis, food concentration, trophic markers, stable isotopes and molecular genetics, are reviewed and their main advantages and disadvantages for qualitative and quantitative approaches are discussed. The challenges to perform the partitioning of ingestion, digestion and assimilation are discussed together with different approaches to address each of these processes for short- and long-term fingerprinting. Future directions for research on the trophic ecology of benthic marine invertebrates with bi-phasic life cycles are discussed with emphasis on five guidelines that will allow for systematic study and comparative meta-analysis to address important unresolved questions.

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