Grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio predation on sediment- and stem-dwelling meiofauna: Field and laboratory experiments

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 175, Issue , 1998, Pages 77-86

  Gregg, Christopher S ^a,b   Fleeger, John W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional response; Meiofauna; Palaemonetes pugio; Predation; Salt marsh; Spartina alterniflora stems

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; MEIOFAUNA; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALTMARSH;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; COPEPODA; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PALAEMONETES PUGIO; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 0032542219     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps175077     Document Type: Article

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