Clamming up: Environmental forces diminish the perceptive ability of bivalve prey

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1587-1598

  Smee, Delbert L ^a   Weissburg, Marc J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue crab; Chemoreception; Clam; Flow; Hydrodynamics; Mercenaria mercenaria; Perceptual distance; Predator prey interaction; Trait mediated indirect interaction; Turbulence; Whelk

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CHEMORECEPTION; CRAB; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORTALITY RISK; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RISK PERCEPTION; SNAIL;

BIVALVIA; BUSYCON CARICA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 33746011880     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1587:CUEFDT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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