Data Push: Patterns of consumption across a Caribbean seascape: Roles of habitat and consumer species composition through time

This is a data push for the paper named in the title.Herbivores, omnivores, and predators transfer energy and structure the communities of many coastal marine ecosystems, and the intensity with which they consume prey and contribute to ecosystem functioning varies substantially among habitats over short time periods. Whether generalities across habitats might emerge for longer time series and using standard methods remains largely untested. Here, we deployed standardized assays of consumption using dried squid (“squidpops”) and five common macrophytes (“weedpops”) to quantify consumption across coral fore reef and patch reefs, mangroves, seagrass meadows, and bare sand from 2015-2019 around Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. We also used video in 2017 to identify the species responsible for consumption. We found that both squid- and weedpop consumption were consistently highest on patch and fore reef habitats, moderate in mangroves, and lowest in seagrass and sand across all years of the survey. Videos showed that the majority of consumption on the reefs in 2017 could be attributed to

本数据集是为一篇标题为《》的论文提供的数据推送。草食性动物、杂食性动物和捕食者在众多海岸海洋生态系统中传递能量并构建社区结构，它们对猎物的消耗强度以及对生态系统功能贡献的强度在短期内随栖息地而显著变化。关于在更长的时间序列中栖息地之间是否可能存在普遍性，以及使用标准方法进行验证的情况，目前尚未得到充分测试。在本研究中，我们采用标准化的消耗实验，使用干鱿鱼（“鱿鱼弹”）和五种常见的大型水生植物（“杂草弹”）来量化珊瑚前礁和斑礁、红树林、海草床和裸沙在2015-2019年间巴拿马地峡的凯里·鲍·凯地区各栖息地的消耗情况。此外，我们在2017年使用了视频来识别负责消耗的物种。我们发现，无论是鱿鱼弹还是杂草弹的消耗，在所有调查年份中均以斑礁和前礁栖息地最为显著，红树林中消耗适中，而在海草和沙地中消耗最低。视频显示，2017年礁石上的大部分消耗可以归因于