Carpinteria Salt Marsh Foodweb for Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)

Carpinteria Salt Marsh

Buteo jamaicensis (Red-tailed Hawk)
Agelaius phoeniceus (Red-winged Blackbird)	Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard)	Ardea herodias (Great Blue Heron)	Charadrius vociferus (Killdeer)	Dryobates pubescens gairdnerii (Downy Woodpecker)	Megaceryle alcyon (Belted Kingfisher)	Sitta carolinensis (White-breasted Nuthatch)
Sturnus vulgaris (European Starling)	Turdus migratorius (American Robin)	Zenaida macroura (Mourning Dove)
Atherinops affinis (Topsmelt silverside)	Lemna minor (common duckweed)	Leptocottus armatus (Cabezon)	Platichthys stellatus (Starry flounder)	Triglochin maritima (Sea Arrow Grass)
Clevelandia ios (Arrow goby)	Cymatogaster aggregata (Shiner)	Engraulis mordax (Californian anchoveta)	Eogammarus confervicolus	Fundulus parvipinnis (California killifish)

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.