Differential regulatory roles of crustacean predators in a sub-arctic, soft-sediment system

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 285, Issue , 2005, Pages 137-149

  Quijón, Pedro A ^a,c   Snelgrove, Paul V R ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b Dept of Boreal and Cold Ocean Syst ^*

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Exclusion; Predation; Sediment; Sub arctic

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC INFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; PREDATOR; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

BONNE BAY; CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANURA; BIVALVIA; CALCAREA; CANCER PAGURUS; CHIONOECETES OPILIO; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MACOMA CALCAREA; PHOLOE; PHOLOE TECTA; POLYCHAETA;

EID: 13944273426     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps285137     Document Type: Article

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