Reduced mobility is associated with compensatory feeding and increased diet breadth of marine crabs

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 188, Issue , 1999, Pages 169-178

  Stachowicz, John J ^a,c   Hay, Mark ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associational refuge; Compensatory feeding; Crabs; Diet breadth; Mobility

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; CRAB; FOOD PREFERENCE; INGESTION RATE; PREDATION RISK; SITE FIDELITY;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; LIBINIA DUBIA; MAJIDAE; MITHRACULUS FORCEPS; MITHRAX; MITHRAX FORCEPS; PANOPEUS HERBSTII; XANTHIDAE;

EID: 0033520709     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps188169     Document Type: Article

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