Foraging behavior of an estuarine predator, the blue crab Callinectes sapidus in a patchy environment

Ecography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-31

  Clark, Mary E ^a   Wolcott, Thomas G ^a   Wolcott, Donna L ^a   Hines, Anson H ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PATCH DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

MARYLAND; RHODE ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACOMA BALTHICA;

EID: 0034073596     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2000.tb00257.x     Document Type: Article

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