Total cover and cover quality: Predicted and actual effects on a predator's foraging success

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 227, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-9

  Bartholomew, Aaron ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphipods; Complexity; Cover; Dimensionless index; Fundulus heteroclitus; Habitat structure; Paleomonetes spp

Indexed keywords

FISH; INDEX METHOD; PREDATION; SURVIVORSHIP;

AMPHIPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); FUNDULUS; FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS; PALAEMONETES;

EID: 0037070102     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps227001     Document Type: Article

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