Predation on gastropods by shell-breaking crabs: Effects on shell availability to hermit crabs

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 286, Issue , 2005, Pages 279-291

  Turra, Alexander ^a,b   Denadai, Márcia R ^a   Leite, Fosca P P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Lab de Biologia Aquatica   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gastropods; Hermit crabs; Intertidal; Predation; Shell availability; Shell utilization; Shell breaking crabs

Indexed keywords

CRAB; GASTROPOD; PREDATION; SHELL;

CALLINECTES DANAE; CERITHIUM ATRATUM; DANAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ERIPHIA GONAGRA; GASTROPODA; MENIPPE NODIFRONS; MORULA NODULOSA; PAGURUS CRINITICORNIS; PANOPEUS OCCIDENTALIS; STRAMONITA HAEMASTOMA; TEGULA VIRIDULA;

EID: 14644425331     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps286279     Document Type: Article

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