Preferential consumption of benthic cyanobacterial mats by Caribbean parrotfishes

JC Manning, SJ McCoy - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Cyanobacteria are ubiquitous on coral reefs and perform many important ecosystem
functions. Benthic cyanobacterial mats (BCMs) have become increasingly abundant on …

Divide and conquer: Spatial and temporal resource partitioning structures benthic cyanobacterial mats

ME Powell, SJ McCoy - Journal of Phycology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Benthic cyanobacterial mats are increasing in abundance worldwide with the potential to
degrade ecosystem structure and function. Understanding mat community dynamics is thus …

Top‐heavy trophic structure within benthic viral dark matter

EC Cissell, SJ McCoy - Environmental Microbiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A better understanding of system‐specific viral ecology in diverse environments is needed to
predict patterns of virus–host trophic structure in the Anthropocene. This study characterised …

Limnofasciculus baicalensis gen. et sp. nov. (Coleofasciculaceae, Coleofasciculales): A New Genus of Cyanobacteria Isolated from Sponge Fouling in Lake Baikal …

E Sorokovikova, I Tikhonova, P Evseev, A Krasnopeev… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
The proliferation of benthic cyanobacteria has been observed in Lake Baikal since 2011 and
is a vivid manifestation of the ecological crisis occurring in the littoral zone. The …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical Diversity of Marine Filamentous Benthic Cyanobacteria

FO Chagas, PI Hargreaves, VGS Trindade, TBM Silva… - Phycology, 2024 - mdpi.com
Genomic and chemical analysis has revealed that numerous species of filamentous
cyanobacteria harbor complex secondary metabolisms tailored to their particular ecological …

Predation, community asynchrony, and metacommunity stability in cyanobacterial mats

EC Cissell, SJ McCoy - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Holistically characterizing mechanisms that connect biotic context with patterns in
persistence across levels of ecological organization requires integrating patterns of …

Convergent photophysiology and prokaryotic assemblage structure in epilithic cyanobacterial tufts and algal turf communities

EC Cissell, SJ McCoy - Journal of Phycology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As global change spurs shifts in benthic community composition on coral reefs globally, a
better understanding of the defining taxonomic and functional features that differentiate …