Intertidal facilitation and indirect effects: Causes and consequences of crawling in the New Zealand cockle

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 271, Issue , 2004, Pages 207-220

  Mouritsen, K N ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Austrovenus; Callianassa; Disturbance; Foot cropping; Interaction modification; Parasitism; Predation; Soft bottom

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; FACILITATION; MOVEMENT; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT;

ABARENICOLA; ABARENICOLA AFFINIS; AUSTROVENUS; AUSTROVENUS STUTCHBURYI; AVES; BOCCARDIA; BOCCARDIA ACUS; CALLIANASSA; CALLIANASSA FILHOLI; CALLIANASSIDAE; COMINELLA GLANDIFORMIS; CURTUTERIA AUSTRALIS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; PISCES; POLYCHAETA; SPIONIDA; TREMATODA; VENERIDAE;

EID: 2542483884     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps271207     Document Type: Article

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