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TABLE 4. Missing and under-represented groups and severely amalgamted nodes.
| Missing groups | Notes | Underrepresented groups | Notes |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Plant Ectoparasites | These include herbivores that could be deemed parasitic or micropredators by our consumer strategy definitions. | 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. | Chironomids | Contains all midges in the family Chironomidae |
| Harpacticoid copepods | Contains all harpacticoid copepods | Severely aggregated nodes | Notes |
| Macroalgae | Contains all multicellular algae | Bacteria | Free-living and symbiotic bacteria were not sampled in this web.� |
| Meiofauna | This common name group includes Phyla like free-living nematodes, gnathostimulids and kinorhynchs. | Birds | Confamilial birds have been aggregated into single nodes. |
| Mites | Contains all Chelicerates in the Subclass Acari | ||
| Nematodes | All free-living nematodes have been aggregated here | ||
| Ostracods | Contains all Ostracods | ||
| Phytoplankton | This node comprises the autotrophic component of the plankton community (e.g. diatoms, dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria). | ||
| Seagrass | This node is an aggregation of all plants from the order Alismatales | ||
| Zooplankton | While copepods are fairly well resolved this assemblage still includes some as well as other holoplanktonic and meroplanktonic organisms. | ||