Rock crab predation of juvenile sea scallops: The functional response and its implications for bottom culture

Aquaculture International

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 355-376

  Wong, Melisa C ^a,b   Barbeau, Myriam A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural mechanisms; Bottom culture; Functional response; Predation; Prey density; Prey size; Rock crab (Cancer irroratus); Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus); Substrate type

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; JUVENILE; PREDATION; PREY SIZE; SCALLOP CULTURE;

CANCER (CRUSTACEAN); CANCER IRRORATUS; CANCER PAGURUS; CANCRIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PECTINIDAE; PLACOPECTEN MAGELLANICUS;

EID: 33747083849     PISSN: 09676120     EISSN: 1573143X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10499-005-9038-6     Document Type: Article

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