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TABLE 4. Missing and under-represented groups and severely amalgamted nodes.
| Missing groups | Notes | Severely aggregated nodes | Notes |
| Bird Ectoparasites | Bird ectoparasites such as lice and mites are definitely present in the system but were not sampled. | Bacteria | Free-living and symbiotic bacteria were not sampled in this web.� |
| Detritus/Stock | Non-living detrital nodes are not included in the web. | Birds | Confamilial birds have been aggregated into single nodes. |
| Protists | Non photosynthetiuc free-living protists are not included in the web. | Cladocera | Contains all water fleas |
| Roots | This benthic portion of seagrass material was not sampled. | Epipelic Flora | This node, likely the most speciose aggregated assemblage, comprises the microphytobenthos, which is mostly diatoms. |
| Saprophytic Fungi | Fungal communities, an important component of the decomposers were not sampled. | Flatworms | All free-living turbellarians have been aggregated here |
| Viruses | Viruses and phages on all nodes were severely undersampled. | Harpacticoid copepods | Contains all harpacticoid copepods |
| Underrepresented groups | Notes | Macroalgae/Seagrass | Contains all multicellular algae and plants from the order Alismatales |
| Ectoparasites of Fishes | Fish ectoparasites and micropredators are difficult to sample and are thus likely undersampled. | Meiofauna | This common name group includes Phyla like free-living nematodes, gnathostimulids and kinorhynchs. |
| Phytoplankton | This node comprises the autotrophic component of the plankton community (e.g. diatoms, dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria). | ||
| Zooplankton | While copepods are fairly well resolved this assemblage still includes some as well as other holoplanktonic and meroplanktonic organisms. | ||