Egg Boons: Central Components of Marine Fatty Acid Food Webs

摘要: Food web relationships are traditionally defined in terms of the flow key elements, such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, their role limiting production. There is growing recognition that availability important biomolecules, fatty acids, may exert controls on secondary production not easily explained by traditional element-oriented models. Essential acids (EFAs) required most organisms for proper physiological function but manufactured almost entirely primary producers. Therefore, EFAs, especially docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), eicosapentaenoic (EPA), arachidonic (ARA), through aquatic food webs critical ecosystem functioning. A meta-analysis data EFA content marine reveals individual eggs animals have exceptionally high concentrations superabundances released temporally spatially discrete patches create rich, temporary, nutritional resources eg...