Integrating prey defensive traits: Contrasts of marine worms from temperate and tropical habitats

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-215

  Kicklighter, Cynthia E ^a,b   Hay, Mark E ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antipredator traits; Chemical defense; Marine worms; Polychaete; Predator prey interactions; Sabellidae; Soft sediment species; Soft substrate communities; Terebellidae

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PALATABILITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SESSILE SPECIES; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

INVERTEBRATA; POLYCHAETA; SABELLIDAE; SIPUNCULUS NUDUS; TEREBELLIDAE;

EID: 33646435285     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 00129615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2006)076[0195:IPDTCO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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