Predation of intertidal infauna on juveniles of the bivalve Macoma balthica

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 141-159

  Hiddink, J G ^a   Ter Hofstede, R ^a   Wolff, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arenicola marina; Enclosure; Macoma balthica; Nereis diversicolor; Predation; Spat; The Netherlands; Tidal flat; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; MOLLUSC; POLYCHAETE; PREDATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TIDAL FLAT;

NETHERLANDS; WADDEN SEA;

ARENICOLA; ARENICOLA MARINA; BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA; MACOMA; MACOMA BALTHICA; NEANTHES DIVERSICOLOR; NEREIS; POLYCHAETA; RETUSA; RETUSA OBTUSA;

EID: 0036252862     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-1101(02)00107-7     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Role of Halicryptus spinulosus (Priapulida) in structuring meiofauna and settling macrofauna
2. Influences of predatory polychaetes and epibenthic predators on the structure of a soft-bottom community in a Maine estuary
3. Role of predatory infauna in structuring marine soft-bottom communities
4. Turnover of postlarval bivalves in sediments of tidal flats in Königshafen (German Wadden Sea)
5. Changes in distribution patterns of 0-group bivalves in the Wadden Sea: Byssus-drifting releases juveniles from the constraints of hydrography
6. Passive settlement of Macoma balthica spat on tidal flats of the Wadden Sea and subsequent migration of juveniles
7. Annual cycle in Retusa obtusa (Montagu) (Gastropoda, Ophisthobranchia) of reproduction, growth and predation upon Hydrobia ulvae (Pennant)
8. Dynamics of juvenile shrimp Crangon crangon in a tidal-flat nursery of the Wadden Sea after mild and cold winters
9. Recruitment in Macoma balthica after mild and cold winters and its possible control by egg production and shrimp predation
10. Sediment reworking by Arenicola marina on tidal flats in the Dutch Wadden Sea
11. Importance of predation by infaunal polychaetes in controlling the structure of a soft-bottom community in Maine, USA
12. Benthic community response to experimental additions of the polychaete Nereis virens
13. Effect of the spionid polychaete Boccardia syrtis on the distribution and survival of juvenile Macomona liliana (Bivalvia: Tellinacea)
14. Infaunal predation regulates benthic recruitment: An experimental study of the influence of the predator Nephtys hombergii (Savigny) on recruits of Nereis diversicolor (O.F. Müller)
15. Adult interference with postlarvae in soft-bottom sediments: The Pontoporeia-Macoma example
16. The effects of pollution by organic waste on macrofauna in the Eastern Dutch Wadden Sea
17. Long-term changes (1977-1994) in intertidal macrozoobenthos of the Dollard (Ems Estuary) and effects of introduction of the North American spionid polychaete Marenzelleria cf. wireni
18. Long-term development of biomass of intertidal macrozoobenthos in different parts of the Wadden Sea. Governed by nutrient loads?
19. Distribution of juvenile and adult Arenicola marina on a tidal mud flat and the importance of nearshore areas for recruitment
20. Disturbance of benthic infauna by sediment-reworking activities of the lugworm Arenicola marina
21. Density-governing mechanisms in populations of the lugworm Arenicola marina on tidal flats
22. Effects of Arenicola marina and Cerastoderma edule on distribution, abundance and population structure of Corophium volutator in Gullmarsfjorden western Sweden
23. Does the activity of cockles, Cerastoderma edule (L.) and lugworms, Arenicola marina L., make Corophium volutator Pallas more vulnerable to epibenthic predators: A case of interaction modification?
24. Competitive bioturbators on intertidal sand flats in the European Wadden Sea and Ariake Sound in Japan
25. Settlement of Macoma balthica on an intertidal sandflat in the Wadden Sea
26. Changes in distribution and decrease of numbers due to migration of the bivalve Macoma balthica
27. Predation on the 0-group and older year classes of the bivalve Macoma balthica: Interaction of size selection and intertidal distribution of epibenthic predators
28. Reproductive output of Macoma balthica populations in relation to winter-temperature and intertidal-height mediated changes of body mass
29. Does temperature-influenced egg production predict the recruitment in the bivalve Macoma balthica?
30. The oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus as a predator of the bivalve Macoma balthica in the Dutch Wadden Sea
31. Role of early post-settlement mortality in recruitment of benthic marine invertebrates
32. Minimal predation upon meiofauna by endobenthic macrofauna in the Exe Estuary, south west England
33. The anatomy and physiology of the gut of the polychaete Arenicola marina
34. Périodicité d'alimentation du polychète N. diversicolor (O.F. Müller) selon les changements de la marée
35. Does recruitment limitation structure populations and communities of macroinvertebrates in marine soft sediments: The relative significance of pre- and post settlement processes
36. Distribution and efficiency of bacteriolysis in the gut of Arenicola marina and three additional deposit feeders
37. Seasonal variability in the bacteriolytic capacity of the deposit feeder Arenicola marina: Environmental correlates
38. The survival of Macoma balthica (L.) in mobile sediments
39. Experiments on epibenthic predation in the Wadden Sea
40. Moderate predation on meiofauna by the macrobenthos of the Wadden Sea
41. The role of the burrow funnel in feeding processes in the lugworm Arenicola marina (L.)
42. Filter-net structure and pumping activity in the polychaete Nereis diversicolor: Effects of temperature and pump-modelling
43. Predation as a mechanism of interference within infauna in shallow brackish water soft bottoms, experiments with an infaunal predator Nereis diversicolor
44. Ecology of Harmothoe sarsi (Malmgren) (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) in the northern Baltic area
45. Zur ernährung von Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803) im wattgebiet des jadebusens (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia)
46. Larval supply of predator and prey: Temporal mismatch between crabs and bivalves after a severe winter in the Wadden Sea
47. Differential recruitment of bivalve species in the northern Wadden Sea after the severe winter of 1995/96 and of subsequent milder winters
48. Interaction of nemertines and their prey on tidal flats
49. Predation and sediment disturbance effects of the intertidal polychaete Nereis virens (Sars) on associated meiofaunal assemblages
50. Importance of predation by crustaceans upon bivalve spat in the intertidal zone of the Dutch Wadden Sea as revealed by immunological assays of gut contents
51. Field investigations of pumping activity of the facultatively filter-feeding polychaete Nereis diversicolor using an improved infrared phototransducer system
52. Why knot Calidris canutus take medium-sized Macoma balthica when six prey species are available
53. How oystercatchers and curlews successively deplete clams