The role of highly mobile crab predators in the intertidal zonation of their gastropod prey

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 204, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 59-83

  Yamada, Sylvia Behrens ^a   Boulding, Elizabeth G ^b,c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Crab; Hemigrapsus; Intertidal zonation; Littorina; Lophopanopeus; Mobile predators; Predation; Refuge

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CRAB; FEEDING; GASTROPOD; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; SEASHORE; SPECIES;

CRAB; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; HIGH MOBILITY; INTERTIDAL COMMUNITIES; INTERTIDAL ZONE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; ZONATION PATTERN;

CANCER PRODUCTUS; DECAPODA; GASTROPODA; HEMIGRAPSUS NUDUS; HEMIGRAPSUS OREGONENSIS; LITTORINA SCUTULATA; LITTORINA SITKANA; LOPHOPANOPEUS BELLUS;

EID: 0030601507     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-0981(96)02579-8     Document Type: Article

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