Effects of algal diet on the performance and susceptibility to predation of the sea hare Aplysia parvula

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 236, Issue , 2002, Pages 241-254

  Rogers, Cary N ^a   De Nys, Rocky ^a   Steinberg, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aplysia; Chemical defence; Cost benefit; Delisea; Diet; Fish predation; Fitness; Herbivore; Laurencia; Red algae; Sea hare; Ulva

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; DIET; MOLLUSC; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

ALGAE; ANASPIDEA; ANIMALIA; APLYSIA; APLYSIA DACTYLOMELA; APLYSIA PARVULA; CEPHALOPODA; CHLOROPHYTA; CRYPSIS; DELISEA; DELISEA PULCHRA; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LAURENCIA; LAURENCIA OBTUSA; LEPUS; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; RHODOPHYTA; ULVA;

EID: 0037014418     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps236241     Document Type: Article

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