Temperature is an important factor for fish. Yet, little is known about its effects on the feeding behavior of fish and the subsequent consequences of these behavioral changes on the spatial distribution of resources. We analyzed the differences in the feeding behavior of two sizes of juvenile Liza aurata at two water temperatures (i.e. 10°C and 20°C), using laboratory mesocosms. We also examined whether temperature-induced changes in feeding behavior of the smaller size of L. aurata would affect the spatial distribution of the microphytobenthos (MPB) biomass, an important resource in coastal systems. Both the number of feeding events and the swimming velocity during feeding in juvenile L. aurata were higher at 20°C than at 10°C, independently of the fish size. The time spent feeding did not vary between 10°C and 20°C, while the distance covered during feeding was significantly smaller at 20°C than at 10°C. Grazing did not affect the mean MPB biomass, but did increase its spatial variance at the smaller scale (i.e. a few centimeters) at 20°C. A high number of feeding events, a high swimming velocity during feeding and a small distance covered during feeding in 20°C-acclimated L. aurata most likely represented an adaptation to an increase in metabolism, as well as to the need to reduce the energy costs of feeding at 20°C. Results also indicated that changes in feeding behavior of the 20°C-acclimated L. aurata were responsible for the increase in small-scale spatial variability in the MPB biomass. We suggested that the enhanced spatial patchiness due to grazing by fish at 20°C might yield a local increase in the mean MPB biomass, probably increasing photosynthetic efficiency of cells and algal growth that counterbalance the negative effect of algal removal by fish, and resulting in the lack of an overall significant effect on the mean.