Revealing organic carbon sources fueling a coral reef food web in the Gulf of Mexico using stable isotopes and fatty acids

Agriculture & Biology

• Gulf of Mexico 100%
• coral reefs 95%
• food webs 92%
• organic carbon 89%
• stable isotopes 86%
• fatty acids 57%
• trophic levels 46%
• phytoplankton 43%
• acids 38%
• highly unsaturated fatty acids 37%
• fish 31%
• arachidonic acid 27%
• Chlorophyta 26%
• Echinometra lucunter 24%
• Caranx 22%
• Acanthurus 21%
• grasses 20%
• surgeons 18%
• carbon 18%
• Phaeophyceae 14%
• Echinoidea 14%
• Rhodophyta 13%
• macroalgae 13%
• invertebrates 11%
• rivers 10%
• degradation 8%
• nutrients 8%
• energy 8%
• metabolism 8%
• nitrogen 8%
• leaves 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• coral reef 79%
• food web 77%
• fatty acid 75%
• stable isotope 70%
• organic carbon 64%
• gulf 60%
• acid 45%
• trophic level 31%
• mangrove 30%
• fish 24%
• phytoplankton 24%
• green alga 23%
• seagrass 22%
• brown alga 13%
• red alga 13%
• nitrogen isotope 11%
• carbon 11%
• metabolism 8%
• decomposition 7%
• nutrient 6%
• sea 5%
• river 5%
• energy 5%