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AB - Abstract After briefly reviewing the evidence that meiofauna are an integral part of the complex food web of invertebrate infaunal and epifaunal organisms, it is shown that, at least in intertidal and shallow subtidal habitats, meiofauna are an important food for the small (30–60 mm) juveniles of some commercially important fishes (flatfish and salmonids) or for fish which are themselves food for commercial species. The evidence that fish feed preferentially on a few species of harpacticoid copepod rather than on the numerically dominant meiofaunal taxa is presented and discussed. It is argued that, in addition to benthic copepods being energetically efficient as food for fishes, it is differences in the activity and availability between major taxa of meiofauna as they relate to the feeding strategies of the fish which go a long way to explaining this apparent general preference of fish for harpacticoid copepods rather than nematodes. From literature estimates of consumption rates, it is concluded that the supply of meiofaunal food to juvenile fish is unlikely to be limiting although this may not be the case in some shallow subtidal muddy sand habitats. Whilst it is recognized that fish predation may influence the magnitude of the seasonal peaks in numbers, predation is not the principal cause of seasonal fluctuations in harpacticoid copepod species abundances. The effects of predation on other aspects of community structure is unknown. Finally, the possible role of meiofauna in mariculture systems is briefly discussed. Food webs, marine benthos, meiofauna, copepods, nematodes, ichthyology, predation REFERENCES Alheit , J. & Scheibel , W. 1982 . Benthic harpacticoids as a food source for fish . Marine Biology , 70 : 141 – 147 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS WorldCat Armonies , W. 1988 . Active emergence of meiofauna from intertidal sediments . Marine Ecology Progress Series , 43 : 151 – 159 . 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TI - An ecological and economic review of meiofauna as food for fish
JO - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
DO - 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1989.tb02259.x
DA - 1989-07-01
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SP - 243
EP - 261
VL - 96
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