Cleaning Stations: the Ultimate Hygiene System
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About this ebook
Cleaning stations are an essential element in reef ecology. All three parties - cleaners, clients and parasites - are part of a big matrix that runs the gamut from mutually beneficial to intrusive or harmful. When I first began my research, I thought this would be a no-brainer. A fish or turtle pulls into the station, gets its windshield cleaned and oil checked by a wrasse, a goby or a shrimp, and exits back into the normal flow of reef traffic. What I found was it can be as simple as previously noted, but there are, as is usually the case, complications. The original work treated the relationship as beneficial to both parties - the cleaner and the client. In the earliest definitive treatise on the subject, in 1961, the topic was created, and has been shaped and polished over the years as more information has been gathered. As more variables have been considered and observations amassed over the years, we now have a complicated web that includes honesty versus cheating - a game theory construct - and cleaner, client and parasite abundance variations that affect the range of behaviors in this relationship.
Tim Grollimund
Tim spent nearly a decade in Key Largo, Florida. He wrote the scuba diving column for the local newspaper, The Reporter, for over three years, and also served as a Working Group member and Alternate Representative on the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. His ebooks are all based on his newspaper columns. Each ebook has a collection of underwater images shot by Tim. The ebooks cover a wide range of marine life species and ocean conservation topics.
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Cleaning Stations - Tim Grollimund
Cleaning Stations: the Ultimate Hygiene System
Tim Grollimund
Author: Tim Grollimund
Date Published: January 15, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-3708642-6-3
Publisher: Smashwords Edition
Copyright © Apex Global Solutions LLC 2017. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced, displayed, modified or distributed without the prior and express written permission of the copyright holder. All inquiries via timgrollimund.com
Table of Contents
Cleaning Stations: the Ultimate Hygiene System
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Reporter
Cleaning Stations... the Ultimate Hygiene System
About The Author
Other eBooks, Prints and Keepsakes
Articles I used to write this column
Acknowledgments
To Dad, who knew I loved the sea, and always encouraged me to pursue my passion.
Introduction
When I moved to the Florida Keys in 2009, I had one objective in mind. Simply, to become highly proficient as an underwater photographer. For the previous several years,