Size-specific aspects of the foraging ecology of the southern oyster drill Stramonita haemastoma (Kool 1987)

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 214, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 249-262

  Brown, Kenneth M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crassostrea; Foraging; Stramonita; Whelk size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; ECOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; PREDATION; SNAIL; UNITED STATES;

EASTERN OYSTER; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; PREDATION; PREDATOR SIZE; SIZE-SELECTIVE PREDATION; SOUTHERN OYSTER DRILL; WHELK SIZE;

BIVALVIA; CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA; GASTROPODA; STRAMONITA HAEMASTOMA;

EID: 0030619577     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(96)02775-X     Document Type: Article

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