Importance of predation by white shrimp Litopenaeus setiferus on estuarine subtidal macrobenthos

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-205

  Beseres, J J ^a,c   Feller, R J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Caging study; Estuarine ecology; Litopenaeus setiferus; Long term data; Macrobenthos; Predation; Shrimp; Subtidal

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRUSTACEAN; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MACROBENTHOS; MACROINVERTEBRATE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPHIC LEVEL;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA; LITOPENAEUS SETIFERUS;

EID: 33947392140     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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