Predation rates and prey selectivity in two predacious estuarine nematode species

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 205, Issue , 2000, Pages 185-193

  Moens, T ^a   Herman, P ^a   Verbeeck, L ^a   Steyaert, M ^a   Vincx, M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Encounter probability; Nematodes; Predation; Prey selectivity; Top down control

Indexed keywords

NEMATODE; PREDATION; PREY SELECTION;

NORTH SEA;

ADONCHOLAIMUS FUSCUS; ENOPLOIDES LONGISPICULOSUS; METAZOA; MONHYSTERIDAE; NEMATODA;

EID: 0034687330     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps205185     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Die rauminhalts- und gewichtsbestimmung der fadenwurmer (Nematoden)
2. Resistance and susceptibility of prey nematodes to predation and strike rate of the predators, Mononchus aquaticus, Dorylaimus stagnalis and Aquatides thornei
3. Attraction of Mononchoides longicaudatus and M. fortidens (Nematoda: Diplogasterida) towards prey and factors influencing attraction
4. Resistance of prey to predation and strike rate of the predators, Mononchoides longicaudatus and M. fortidens (Nematoda: Diplogasterida)
5. Some factors influencing predation by Mononchus aquaticus
6. Carbon flows in a subtidal fine sand community from the Western English Channel: A simulation analysis
7. Perspectives of marine meiofaunal ecology
8. The potential impact of meiofauna on the recruitment of macrobenthos in a subtidal coastal benthic community of the Ligurian Sea (north-western Mediterranean): A field result
9. The ecology of micro- and meiobenthos
10. On the importance of marine meiofauna for benthos communities
11. Encounter probabilities and community structure in zooplankton: A mathematical model
12. The ecology of marine nematodes
13. Effect of temperature on life cycles of nematodes associated with the mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) detrital system
14. Role of early post-settlement mortality in recruitment of benthic marine invertebrates
15. Measuring carbon content in nematodes
16. Carbon partitioning within meiobenthic nematode communities in the Exe Estuary, UK
17. Energy flow in a tidal flat ecosystem
18. Feeding biology of the brackish-water oncholaimid nematode Adoncholaimus thalassophygas
19. Die nematodenfauna der sublittoralen region der Deutschen bucht, insbesondere im titan-abwassergebiet bei helgoland
20. Life-cycle of the free-living nematode Pontonema vulgare in the White Sea
21. An energy budget for the free-living nematode Pelodera (Rhabditidae)
22. Observations on the feeding ecology of estuarine nematodes
23. On the cultivation of free-living estuarine and marine nematodes
24. The feeding biology of a predatory and a facultatively predatory marine nematode (Enoploides longispiculosus and Adoncholaimus fuscus)
25. Rates of metazoan meiofaunal microbivory: A review
26. Does recruitment limitation structure populations and communities of macro-invertebrates in marine soft sediments: The relative significance of pre- and post-settlement processes
27. Analysis of feeding preference experiments
28. Okologische untersuchungen uber die benthosfauna im nordostseekanal. II. Autokologie der vagilen und hemisessilen arten im bewuchs der pfahle: Mikro-und mesofauna
29. Significance of ATP, carbon and caloric content of meiobentic nematodes in partitioning benthic biomass
30. Jahreszeitliche fluktuationen der nematodenfauna im gezeitenbereich des weser-astuars (Deutsche bucht)
31. Observations on the predation abilities of some soil dwelling predatory nematodes
32. The life cycle of Oncholaimus oxyuris (Nematoda) in its habitat
33. On the ecology of turbellarians in a sheltered brackish shallow water bay
34. The DNA of Caenorhabditis elegans
35. Some factors influencing the recruitment and establishment of marine benthic communities
36. A re-evaluation of marine nematode productivity
37. Ecological and metabolic studies on free-living nematodes from an estuarine mudflat
38. The effects of meiofauna on settling macrofauna: Meiofauna may structure macrofaunal communities
39. Interactions among temporary and permanent meiofauna: Observations on the feeding and behaviour of selected taxa
40. Growth and metabolism in a marine nematode Enoplus communis Bastian
41. Predation by Mononchoides potohikus (Nematoda: Diplogasteridae) in laboratory culture
42. Meiobenthic interactions with macrobenthic larvae and juveniles: An experimental assessment of the meiofaunal bottleneck