Table
4: Missing and under-represented groups and severely
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Missing groups |
Notes |
Underrepresented groups |
Notes |
Severely aggregated nodes |
Notes |
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Bird
Ectoparasites |
Bird ectoparasites such as lice
and mites are definitely present in the system but were not sampled. |
Ectoparasites of Fishes |
Fish ectoparasites and
micropredators are difficult to sample and are thus likely undersampled. |
Bacteria |
Free-living and symbiotic
bacteria were not sampled in this web. |
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Free-living
Protists |
Non photosynthetiuc free-living
protists are not included in the web. |
Parasitic Protists |
Though some single celled
parasitic organisms are in the web others likely present but were not
included For example, fish blood was not examined for Haemoflagellates. |
Birds |
Confamilial birds have been
aggregated into single nodes. |
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Plant
Ectoparasites |
These include herbivores that
could be deemed parasitic or micropredators by our consumer strategy
definitions. |
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Cladocera |
Contains all water fleas |
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Roots |
This benthic portion of seagrass
material was not sampled. |
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Epipelic Flora |
This node, likely the most
speciose aggregated assemblage, comprises the microphytobenthos, which is
mostly diatoms. |
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Saprophytic
Fungi |
Fungal communities, an important
component of the decomposers were not sampled. |
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Flatworms |
All free-living turbellarians
have been aggregated here |
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Viruses |
Viruses and phages on all nodes
were severely undersampled. |
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Chironomids |
Contains all midges in the
family Chironomidae |
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Harpacticoid copepods |
Contains all harpacticoid
copepods |
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Macroalgae |
Contains all multicellular algae |
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Meiofauna |
This common name group includes
Phyla like free-living nematodes, gnathostimulids and kinorhynchs. |
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Mites |
Contains all Chelicerates in the
Subclass Acari |
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Nematodes |
All free-living nematodes have
been aggregated here |
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Ostracods |
Contains all Ostracods |
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Phytoplankton |
This node comprises the
autotrophic component of the plankton community (e.g. diatoms,
dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria). |
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Seagrass |
This node is an aggregation of
all plants from the order Alismatales |
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Zooplankton |
While copepods are fairly well
resolved this assemblage still includes some as well as other holoplanktonic
and meroplanktonic organisms. |
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