Effect of disturbance on foraging: Whelk activity on wave-exposed rocky shores with minimal tidal range

Marine Biology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 421-428

  Rilov, Gil ^a,b   Gasith, Avital ^a   Benayahu, Yehuda ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESICCATION; DISTURBANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ROCKY SHORE; WATER TEMPERATURE; WAVE ACTION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

STRAMONITA HAEMASTOMA; TRIXIS;

EID: 20944433990     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-005-1568-y     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Belisle BW, Stickle WB (1978) Seasonal pattern in the biochemical constituents and body component indexes of the muricid gastropod, Thais haemastoma. Biol Bull 155:259-272
2. Berlow EL (1997) From canalization to contingency: historical effects in a successional rocky intertidal community. Ecol Monogr 67:435-460
3. Burrows MT, Hughes RN (1989) Natural foraging of dogwhelk, Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus): the weather and whether to feed. J Moll Stud 55:285-295
4. Dahlhoff EP, Buckley BA, Menge BA (2001) Physiology of the rocky intertidal predator Nucella ostrina along an environmental stress gradient. Ecology 82:2816-2829
5. Denny MW (1985) Wave forces on intertidal organisms: a case study. Limnol Oceanogr 30:1171-1187
6. Denny MW (1988) Biology and the mechanics of the wave-swept environment. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
7. Denny MW (1995) Predicting physical disturbance: mechanistic approaches to the study of survivorship on wave-swept shores. Ecol Monogr 64:371-418
8. Denny MW, Daniel TL, Koehl MAR (1985) Mechanical limits to size in wave-swept organisms. Ecol Monogr 55:69-102
9. Fairweather PG (1988a) Movements on intertidal whelks (Morula marginalba and Thais orbita) in relation to availability of prey and shelter. Mar Biol 100:63-68
10. Fairweather PG (1988b) Correlations of predatory whelks with intertidal prey at several scales of time and space. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 45:237-245
11. Gaines SD, Denny MW (1993) The largest, smallest, highest, lowest, longest, and shortest: extremes in ecology. Ecology 76:1677-1692
12. Garton DW, Stickle WB (1980) Effects of salinity and temperature on the predation rate of Thais haemastoma on Crassostrea virginica spat. Biol Bull 158:49-57
13. Gosselin LA, Bourget E (1989) The performance of an intertidal predator Thais lapillus, in relation to structural heterogeneity. J Anim Ecol 58:287-303
14. Hughes RN, Burrows MT (1993) Predatory behaviour of the intertidal snail, Nucella lapillus, and its effect on community structure. In: Kawanabe H, Cohen JE, Iwasaki K (eds) Mutualism and community organization, behavioural, theoretical, and food-web approaches. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 63-83
15. Hughes RN, Burrows MT (1994) An interdisciplinary approach to the study of foraging behaviour in the predatory gastropod Nucella lapillus (L.). Ethol Ecol Evol 6:75-85
16. Johnson MP, Hughes RN, Burrows MT, Hawkins SJ (1998) Beyond the predation halo: small scale gradients in barnacle populations affected by the relative refuge value of crevices. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 231:163-170
17. Menge BA (1978a) Predation intensity in a rocky intertidal community. Relation between predator foraging activity and environmental harshness. Oecologia 34:1-16
18. Menge BA (1978b) Predation intensity in a rocky intertidal community. Effect of an algal canopy, wave action and desiccation on predator feeding rates. Oecologia 34:17-35
19. Menge BA (1991) Generalizing from experiments: is predation strong or weak in the New England (USA) rocky intertidal? Oecologia 88:1-8
20. Menge BA, Olson AM (1990) Role of scale and environmental factors in regulation of community structure. Trends Ecol Evol 19:189-262
21. Menge BA, Sutherland JP (1987) Community regulation - variation in disturbance, competition, and predation in relation to environmental stress and recruitment. Am Nat 130:730-757
22. Moran MJ (1985) The timing and significance of sheltering and foraging behavior of the predatory intertidal gastropod Morula marginalba Blainville (Muricidae). J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 93:103-114
23. Palmer JD (1995) The biological rhythms and clocks of intertidal animals. Oxford University Press, New York
24. Richardson TD, Brown KM (1990) Wave exposure and prey size selection in an intertidal predator. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 142:105-120
25. Rilov G (1999) The whelk Stramonita haemastoma in the eastern Mediterranean rocky littoral: biotic and abiotic perspectives. Ph.D. dissertation, Tel-Aviv University
26. Rilov G, Benayahu Y, Gasith A (2001) Low abundance and skewed population structure of the whelk Stramonita haemastoma along the Israeli Mediterranean coast. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 218:189-202
27. Rilov G, Gasith A, Benayahu Y (2002) Effect of an exotic prey on the feeding pattern of a predatory snail. Mar Environ Res 54:85-98
28. Rilov G, Benayahu Y, Gasith A (2004a) Life on the edge: do biomechanical and behavioral adaptations to wave-exposure correlate with habitat partitioning in predatory whelks? Mar Ecol Prog Ser 282:193-204
29. Rilov G, Benayahu Y, Gasith A (2004b) Prolonged lag in population outbreak of an invasive mussel: a shifting-habitat model. Biol Invasions 6(3):347-364
30. Safriel UN (1966) Recent vermetid formation on the Mediterranean shore of Israel. Proc Malacol Soc Lond 37:27-33
31. Stickle WB (1985) Effects of environmental factor gradients on scope for growth in several species of carnivorous marine invertebrates. In: Gray JS, Christiansen ME (eds), Proceedings of the 18th European marine biology symposium (1983). Wiley, London, pp 601-616