The food chain of a coral reef is best expressed through a diagram: The related link below has a good one that is not too hard to understand.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_food_chain_of_the...
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What are food webs? Shark.JPG (5848 bytes). i43.jpg (4514 bytes) Caetfrem.jpg (4559 bytes). C06.jpg (5698 bytes) limu.jpg (8482 bytes) C09.jpg (5171 bytes) ...
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www.coralreefnetwork.com/educate/shows/foodwebs/slide1....
www.coralreefnetwork.com/educate/shows/foodwebs/slide1.htm
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Producers are the base of the food chain and are very important because all of the energy in the community flows from them. On coral reefs there are three ...
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www.coralreefnetwork.com/educate/shows/foodwebs/slide4....
www.coralreefnetwork.com/educate/shows/foodwebs/slide4.htm
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The coral reef ecosystem is a diverse collection of species that interact with each other and the physical environment. ... In dead reefs, recently killed by the crown-of-thorns sea star, larger food and game fish are almost totally absent. Even deep-sea fish populations may be affected by this breakdown in the food chain.
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www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/coral/reef-ecos...
www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/coral/reef-ecosystem.htm
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Carnivores are at the top of the food chain. They eat only animals. Sharks are the top predator in a coral reef ecosystem. Energy and nutritional exchange is a constant, never-ending process that sometimes takes place during the day (diurnal), at night (nocturnal) and at dusk and dawn (crepuscular).
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www.schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us/educators/tec/Trunk/inde...
www.schools.pinellas.k12.fl.us/educators/tec/Trunk/index.html
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If their corpses come to rest within scavenging distance of the coral reef fish, that event must be considered a significant nutrient input, and it is of a type that is natural and acceptable, ... Mass coral bleaching (death of clean water corals by food starvation during warm spells) is a truly new and ominous phenomenon,
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www.fisherycrisis.com/coral3.html
www.fisherycrisis.com/coral3.html
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Coral reefs provide food and shelter for more than one million species of fish and invertebrates. They, in turn, attract larger predators, such as octopuses and sharks, creating a balance where each... (more info)
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videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/25863-amazing-coral-reef-c...
videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/25863-amazing-coral-reef-coral-food-chain-video.htm
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A Coral Reef Food Chain : A Who-Eats-What Adventure in the Caribbean Sea ... This looks great! Thanks for providing such a nice review. My daughter (third grade) has become a bit obsessed with coral reef food webs, and she’ll probably love this book...
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simplyscience.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/a-coral-reef-foo...
simplyscience.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/a-coral-reef-food-chain/
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