Carpinteria Salt Marsh Foodweb for Atherinops affinis (Topsmelt silverside)

Carpinteria Salt Marsh

Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)

Ardea herodias (Great Blue Heron)

Atherinops affinis (Topsmelt silverside)

Ecosystem provided by Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney and A. M. Kuris (in press) Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics (eds S. Collinge and C. Ray). Oxford University Press, Oxford.