High biomass and production but low energy transfer efficiency of Caribbean parrotfish: implications for trophic models of coral reefs

Agriculture & Biology

• Sparisoma viride 100%
• Scaridae 81%
• energy transfer 62%
• coral reefs 60%
• primary productivity 44%
• reefs 39%
• herbivores 38%
• biomass 32%
• food intake 26%
• trophic levels 25%
• corals 15%
• fisheries 14%
• Bonaire 13%
• Netherlands Antilles 12%
• Scarus 12%
• aquatic ecosystems 8%
• gametogenesis 8%
• Echinoidea 7%
• energy intake 7%
• gonads 6%
• spawning 6%
• predators 5%
• eggs 4%
• fish 4%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• coral reef 50%
• food intake 47%
• herbivore 45%
• primary production 41%
• reef 37%
• biomass 32%
• trophic level 26%
• energy 25%
• consumption 18%
• coral 15%
• fishery 14%
• reproductive effort 13%
• energy intake 12%
• fringing reef 11%
• gamete 11%
• herbivory 10%
• body mass 9%
• spawning 8%
• aquatic ecosystem 8%
• egg 8%
• fishing 7%
• predator 7%
• mortality 6%
• food 5%
• fish 5%
• sea 4%
• effect 2%