Helpful habitant or pernicious passenger: Interactions between an infaunal bivalve, an epifaunal hydroid and three potential predators

Oecologia

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 415-422

  Manning, Lisa M ^a   Lindquist, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Donax variabilis; Hydroids; Nematocyst; Positive interactions; Sandy beaches

Indexed keywords

BEACH; EPIBIONT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MOLLUSC; PREDATOR;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ARENAEUS CRIBRARIUS; ARTHROPODA; BIVALVIA; BRACHYURA; COELENTERATA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DONAX VARIABILIS; HYDROZOA; LOVENELLA GRACILIS; MOLLUSCA; OCYPODE QUADRATA; OCYPODIDAE; PERCIFORMES; TRACHINOTUS CAROLINUS;

EID: 0037291935     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1134-y     Document Type: Article

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